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  • Empathy through the Overton window
    Today on The Daily breakdown we examine empathy. For decades we've been told it's a virtue when a politician "feels our pain". But what if it isn't? What if empathy is actually making polarisation worse?
    28 min
  • Modern Monetary Madness
    There is a quiet revolution taking place in global economics - the debate about debt deficit has ended. The main game is 'modern monetary theory' - but why aren't politicians and economists talking about it? Because the concept is loony tunes and the inevitable outcome is frightening. So maybe it's time you found out what it is. Before it's too late.
    32 min
  • Trump goes two-for-two
    Impeachment is over, so that means the war against Trump is ended, right? Not by a long shot. And the leftist purge continues - this time the useful idiots at the Lincoln Project are imploding. But if they all crawl back under their rocks, where will Leigh Sales and 730 find their experts on US politics?
    36 min
  • Hypocrisy gets a show trial
    Today on The Breakdown, we examine the impeachment, the effort to make women irrelevant and you may not know anything about Biden's CIA nominee but the Chinese sure do. Here's why.
    36 min
  • The woke attacks
    Today on The Breakdown, after 23 years of only opening his mouth to change feet, Eddie's left Collingwood, but why are the woke now going after Waleed? And is a Magic-8 Ball smarter than a magistrate?
    26 min
  • The many faces of diversity
    'Diversity' is the word of the moment, but not all diversity is as good as we've been told. For example, media diversity is celebrated unless it means a Murdoch press and Sky News, while Media Watch celebrates a complete lack of media diversity. And in New Zealand, it's a sign of a nation without unifying symbols.
    28 min
  • Collingwood just opened a can of worms
    When Eddie McGuire commissioned a report into racism at Collingwood, he probably thought it would rule a line through racism instead of his career. The report recommends Collingwood become "anti-racist'. That's a problem for Eddie. He has no idea what "anti-racism" is - and he's just grabbed it with both hands.
    36 min

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