Happy New Year, and a short message from the podcast host.

Vox Day is a prominent Alt-Right blogger, science fiction writer, journalist, musician, and video game designer. In the conversation he mentioned MAGA Mindset: Making YOU and America Great Again by Mike Cernovich, and referred to Ilhan Omar, the Somali-American member of the Minnesota House who defeated Phyllis Kahn in the Democratic Primary by 2,404 votes to 1,726. Though it […]

Rachel Goldsmith is the director of operations at The Free State Project, Facebook, Twitter. They are encouraging Libertarians to move to New Hampshire to create a haven of Liberty. The only Republican to win the popular vote in the presidential election since 1988 is George W Bush in 2004. Trump has stepped back from his […]

Christopher Snowdon is the Head of Lifestyle Economics for the right-leaning Institute of Economic Affairs; he also writes for Spectator Health. I mentioned obesity statistics from the Centres for Disease Control: Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years […]

Smári McCarthy is a programmer, a writer and one of the founders of the Pirate Party of Iceland and a candidate in the upcoming Icelandic elections.

John Iadarola is a co-presenter of The Young Turks and a presenter of Think Tank. In our discussion, we referred to the Backfire Effect which was documented in a study by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler, which found that people with invested political opinions tend to believe them even more strongly when confronted with refuting evidence. We […]

Kristaps Andrejsons presents of the Eastern Border podcast from Latvia, the tiny EU country on the border with Russia.

Todd Feinburg is a conservative radio host and presenter of the Harvard Lunch Club podcast. Follow him on Twitter or @ToddTalk.

Eric Kingson is a candidate in the Democratic Party primary in New York's 24th Congressional District. He is the author of Social Security Works!: Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All and other books. Follow him on Twitter here and Facebook here. Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics  at […]

Doug Payton is the presenter of the Consider This podcast, and he also co-presents Person of Interest and Chester's Mill Gazette for Golden Spiral Media. Information about the US presidential Electoral College is here. This is the electoral system used to elect the mayor of London and this is the system used to elect the […]