Archive - The Political Orphanage

Bonus: Topics I Don't Want to Do

Israel, Gaza, and Transgender Issues

Oct 9 • Andrew Heaton

45:32

Europe is Freeloading on American Healthcare

And the Case Against Normal American Health Insurance

Oct 8 • Andrew Heaton

1:04:43

The Spear Industrial Complex

Latest sketch from Reason TV

Oct 5 • Andrew Heaton

Nixon Explains the Lesbian Mask Bar Controversy

New Segment: “What Fresh Hell is This? With Richard Nixon”

Oct 2 • Andrew Heaton

17:01

The Man Who Killed Antitrust

Why We Stopped Breaking Up Big Companies

Oct 1 • Andrew Heaton

1:25:10

September 2026

Mammoths and Neanderthals

The ethics of bringing back extinct species

Sep 24 • Andrew Heaton and Josh Jennings

1:36:41

Why Childcare Will Always Be Expensive

Alex Mayyasi from NPR’s Planet Money teaches me about cartels and cost disease

Sep 23 • Andrew Heaton and Alex Mayyasi

1:02:50

How I Use A.I. For Work

And my growing army of robot staffers

Sep 18 • Andrew Heaton

54:25

The A.I. Civil War

What are Anthropic and OpenAI fighting about?

Sep 17 • Andrew Heaton and Justin Robert Young

1:13:55

Upwingers Fighting Downwingers (Rebroadcast)

How people approach technology, and risk

Sep 15 • Andrew Heaton

59:31

Kirk or Spock for President? Sept AMA

September Ask Me Anything!

Sep 11 • Andrew Heaton

1:11:20

How Do Other Countries do Healthcare?

Healthcare in America is more expensive than anywhere else in the world—but what are other countries actually doing differently?

Sep 10 • Andrew Heaton and Slice of Life, MD

1:11:54

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