Pinot & Policy

By Arbitror

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What's Pinot & Policy about?

Arbitror's podcast where emerging scholars and professionals convene around fermented libations to discuss the latest in domestic and foreign policy news.

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Pinot & Policy episodes:

04.18.2020
Masks Unmasked: On Mask Policies and Medical Misinformation During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Sophia Freuden sat down with Chloe Freuden, a registered nurse in the State of Washington, to discuss recent policy recommendations issued by the CDC regarding masks. They also chatted about medical misinformation, legal action being taken against it, and how...
04.07.2020
COVID-101: An Intro to Light Beer and Epidemiology
In this week's episode, Pinot & Policy winos Drake MacFarlane and Hannah Cowden receive a lesson in epidemiology, virology, and the efficacy of boxed wine mimosas from special guest Michael Luzadder -- a real life STEM major. Truly, high school...
03.17.2020
Democracy Despite COVID-19
The Pinot & Policy crew invites special guest Phoebe Gresser, a political liaison with the Outlaw Dirty Money initiative in Arizona, to discuss the impact of social distancing on campaigns and ballot initiatives across America. Oh, and we get wine...
03.12.2020
From Pangolins to Pandemics: the Coronavirus
Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Cowden, and Sophia Freuden teamed up to talk about the pending apocalypse, otherwise known as coronavirus. No stone was left unturned, including risks of the pandemic, its economic and political impact, and what it means for gerontocracy...
02.28.2020
Bloomberg's Memocracy
Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Luzadder, and Sophia Freuden hop on this episode to talk Bloomberg's meme campaign to win the Democratic nominations, corporate capture of natural artistic communities, influencer culture, and everything else on the internet that makes you want to...
09.20.2019
Google is bad, mmkay?
Drake MacFarlane and Sophia Freuden sit down to discuss our cyber overlords, Facebook and Google, as well as some antitrust investigations that have been launched against them in recent weeks. They go over the legal history of major antitrust laws...
09.02.2019
Live Green or Die Hard: The Climate Crisis Episode
Hannah Cowden, Drake MacFarlane and Sophia Freuden sit down over some Radlers and gin to discuss climate change--or as it is increasingly known, the climate crisis. This particularly spicy discussion includes 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and her upcoming address...
08.19.2019
Protest Power: 11 Weeks into Hong Kong's Disruption
Hong Kong is seeing mass protests reaching as large as 1.7 million people marching in a single day. This protest movement is 11 weeks old and four weeks away from the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party taking control...
06.18.2019
Own Goal: the Bungled Golunov Arrest and Journalism in 2019
Arbitror’s Editor-in-Chief Sophia Freuden sat down with TJ Sjostrom and Maria Gershuni to discuss Ivan Golunov’s arrest in Moscow earlier this month, potential causes for and consequences of the botched arrest, and the state of journalism worldwide in 2019. If...
06.03.2019
Body Politic: Beauty in World Politics
Sophia Freuden, Drake MacFarlane, Hannah Luzadder, and Morgan MacFarlane sit down to discuss who is hot or not in global politics. The discussion includes the intersection of race, age, and gender in beauty standards and how perceived beauty can affect...
05.20.2019
Gaza: Unlivable by 2020
A recent breakout of violence in Gaza is neither the first nor last of its kind. Arbitror's Editor in Chief sits down with Ellen Schwartz, a contributor at Arbitror and an intern at the Arava Institute, a think tank based...
04.24.2019
On Trolls, Fake Santas, and Impeachments: The Mueller Report
What's 448 pages long, only partially legible, and one of the most ridiculous things you've ever read? Arbitror's Pinot & Policy team sits down over drinks to discuss the long-awaited Mueller report. This episode's team included Editor-in-Chief Sophia Freuden, Director...
04.18.2019
The Meh-ller Report
The Arbitror podcast crew get together for our revamped podcast series, Pinot & Policy, in which we slurp down brews while hashing out the latest news in the policy world. This week's topic: the long awaited report from Special Counsel...

What's Pinot & Policy about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Pinot & Policy episodes:

Masks Unmasked: On Mask Policies and Medical Misinformation During the Coronavirus Pandemic

COVID-101: An Intro to Light Beer and Epidemiology

Democracy Despite COVID-19

From Pangolins to Pandemics: the Coronavirus

Bloomberg's Memocracy

Google is bad, mmkay?

Live Green or Die Hard: The Climate Crisis Episode

Protest Power: 11 Weeks into Hong Kong's Disruption

Own Goal: the Bungled Golunov Arrest and Journalism in 2019

Body Politic: Beauty in World Politics

Gaza: Unlivable by 2020

On Trolls, Fake Santas, and Impeachments: The Mueller Report

The Meh-ller Report