Damage Control

Pacific Legal Foundation constitutional attorney Elizabeth Slattery joins the show to discuss the one genius element of our Constitution that preserves freedom and keeps tyranny at bay. We break down the separation of powers, the dangers of administration creep, the regulatory "deep state," and Congress's dereliction of its constitutional duties.

How do these broad concepts after real people in real life? And how will these issues be at play in upcoming Supreme Court cases?

We discuss all this & more.

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Reason senior editor Robby Soave joins the show to break down the "cancel culture" phenomenon. Having been on the outrage culture beat for years now—and authored a whole book about its origins on campus—Robby explains what cancel culture, properly understood, really is—and what it isn't. We discuss this definition, high profile examples, whether Republicans are hypocrites, cancelling the cancelers, and more.

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Never has a word been more used and less understood. Republicans claim to support capitalism while passing policies that actually harm it. Democrats blame capitalism for problems created by their own government infringements on it.

Hannah Cox is here to set the record straight. What defines free market policies, what have the results of those policies been historically, and is the United States actually a capitalist society? We break it down in Episode 6 of Based!

National Review senior writer and author David Harsanyi joins the show to discuss the heart-breaking mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, where a deranged gunman killed 10 at a grocery store using an AR-15-style rifle.

Does this vindicate Democratic calls for gun control? Would "universal background checks" or a ban on "assault weapons" have made a difference? What do people misunderstand about gun violence and the Second Amendment in America?

We break this all down and more.

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Pacific Research Institute fellow Sally Pipes joins the show to discuss Biden's sweeping healthcare agenda.

What exactly is a 'public option'? What are the downfalls of pushing more people onto government healthcare? Will Biden's plan inevitably result in socialism? Why would "Medicare-for-All" lead to disaster?

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Young Voices contributor and Reason Foundation policy analyst Jen Sidorova joins the show to explain how the government's "eviction moratorium," a ban on evictions meant to help renters struggling amid the COVID recession, is destroying the rental market and screwing over landlords like her.

What happens when people don't have to pay rent? Are landlords really all rich people? What will happen when the music stops and the moratorium ends?

We discuss all this and more.

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Manhattan Institute economist Brian Riedl joins the show to explain how blowout COVID spending has sent our already-bleak debt trajectory spiraling into potential crisis. He breaks down why yes, deficits actually do matter for economic prospects—and explains why young people should care about the debt crisis in the same way they care about climate change.

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Senator Mike Braun delves into some of the pitfalls in the Biden Administration's American Rescue Plan, exposes the Democrats' dangerous one-size-fits-all approach to the federal minimum wage, the future of conservative economics, and more.

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Journalist Isaac Saul joins the show to discuss how he reflects on his teenage indiscretions and use of slurs like "faggot" and the N-word in light of today's cancel culture. We tackle the need for grace, growth, and nuance in our culture of outrage and Twitter mobs but also how we balance this with the real need to address racism and bias. Plus, we break down his new project Tangle News that seeks to transcend hyperpartisan inflammatory journalism, and tackle the problems facing the media industry more broadly.

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Congressman Peter Meijer joins the show to talk us through his personal journey to politics as a war vet, humanitarian aid worker, and businessman. He explains how it shapes his next-generation Republican worldview. We break down Meijer's realist approach to foreign policy, the generational divide in Congress, how the Right should approach climate/environmental issues, his support for free-market economics, and more.

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