Our American Experiment

By Evan Baehr

What's Our American Experiment about?

Our American Experiment is a podcast that engages leading thinkers and doers creatively working to strengthen the United States of America-- the longest running experiment to defend individual liberty and promote human flourishing the world has ever seen. Cohosts include DC-based tech insider Jessica Dahl and Austin, TX, based serial entrepreneur Evan Baehr.

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Avik Roy on reinventing the...

06.18.2018

In many ways, the life of Avik Roy was pretty predictable. He had gone to MIT, later Yale medical school, then he was investing in companies and making a lot of money. And then something happened: when he grew concerned ...

Our American Experiment episodes:

06.18.2018 Avik Roy on reinventing the traditional think tank In many ways, the life of Avik Roy was pretty predictable. He had gone to MIT, later Yale medical school, then he was investing in companies and making a lot of money. And then something happened: when he grew concerned ...
06.04.2018 Jeff Sandefer on Disruptive Education—creating the one-room schoolhouse for the 21st century Jeff and Laura Sandefer started Acton Academy eight years ago with the single goal of providing a learner-driven education for their two sons. What transpired was a global network of today’s most innovative schools. Jeff Sandefer tells the origin story ...
03.14.2018 Steve Hilton on Positive Populism, Brexit, and Fleck-Festooned T-Shirts Jessica and Evan visit with Steve Hilton, a man of many talents and claims to fame. An early restauranteur in farm to table, a corporate social responsibility advocate, right hand to David Cameron, and now CEO and best selling author. ...
02.28.2018 Doug Deason: How a High School Arrest Forged a Criminal Justice Warrior Doug Deason is an unlikely advocate for criminal justice reform: he is a wealthy investor based in Dallas who supported Donald Trump. However, a childhood adventure and a powerful speech by Charles Koch helped shape Doug into one of the ...
01.16.2018 Stacy Hock on Educational Choice--From Innovation in New York to Political Battles in Texas Stacy Hock is an Austin-born, MIT-trained computer scientist, serial leader of technology companies, and now advocate for educational choice in her home state of Texas. After reading Milton Friedman, Hock became committed to free-market solutions to difficult public problems--and the ...
01.02.2018 Mike Gallagher on the "Why" of Being in Congress and Sleeping in Your Office Mike Gallagher is the youngest member of the United States Congress. After nearly a decade of service in the military, Gallagher takes his 'deployment' mentality to Washington. Gallagher chats all things from how to disagree with Trump to tips on ...