Archive - The Political Orphanage

Money is Speech: Citizens United

Why Corporations Get Political Speech

Oct 27 • Andrew Heaton

1:40:40

Corporations Meet God

Do for-profit companies get religious protections?

Oct 24 • Andrew Heaton

1:08:39

Why Corporations Are People

And why it’s a good thing

Oct 22 • Andrew Heaton

1:04:32

Bonus: Swedish Opposition Burgers

And government-run strip clubs

Oct 20 • Andrew Heaton

35:18

How Immigration Broke German Politics

And why America is better at integration than Europe

Oct 17 • Andrew Heaton

1:15:05

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

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