The Political Orphanage

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  • Summary

  • Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.
    2020 Andrew Heaton
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Political Science Politics & Government
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Episodes
  • Jonathan Rauch: Christianity Dropped the Ball on Democracy

    Jonathan Rauch: Christianity Dropped the Ball on Democracy
    Feb 19 2025

    Jonathan Rauch asserts that as the American Church has become increasingly concerned with the culture war and politics, it has become secularized and unappealing to its members, who are abandoning it. The result is a country increasingly spiritually adrift, churches distracted from their core missions, and a nation turning to politics as a substitute.

    He is the author of Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Promise with Democracy
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Sex by the Numbers

    Sex by the Numbers
    Feb 12 2025

    Who’s having sex, and how much of it are they having? Who’s getting married and who’s getting divorced? Does money, somehow, possibly, effect any of this?

    Cathy Reisenwitz of “Sex & The State” joins to discuss.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • TRADE WAR! (Probably)

    TRADE WAR! (Probably)
    Feb 6 2025

    Trump erected, then delayed, tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but has levied tariffs on China–which is apt to escalate things shortly. What happens in a trade war and why are they bad? And what is happening now, specifically, in whatever’s going on with Canada? Heaton breaks down the macroeconomics, and James Thatcher explains the unfolding situation.

    Discord: www.mightyheaton.com/discord
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    55 mins

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