Episodes

  • Show 324 - What's Good for the Goose

    Show 324 - What's Good for the Goose
    Mar 23 2025
    The U.S. political stage has long been primed for an American nightmare. Faction loyalists can argue over who'll end up pulling the constitutional trigger, but the metaphorical gun has been loaded for decades.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Show 323 - Gas Up the Cold War

    Show 323 - Gas Up the Cold War
    Mar 1 2022
    Vladimir Putin has instantaneously reignited the Cold War by savagely attacking Ukraine this week. In response to requests, Dan shares a few thoughts.
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    40 mins
  • Show 322 - Betting on Long Shots

    Show 322 - Betting on Long Shots
    Sep 1 2021
    After 20 years in Afghanistan the U.S. exits the country thus ending the longest war in American history. Are there any lessons to be learned?
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    55 mins
  • Show 321 - Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Show 321 - Garbage In, Garbage Out
    Jan 14 2021
    In a show recorded before the recent House impeachment vote, Dan examines the damage caused by the iceberg we recently hit when Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol and tries to suggest how we might avoid hitting another one.
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    47 mins
  • Show 320 - Steering Into the Iceberg

    Show 320 - Steering Into the Iceberg
    Sep 20 2020
    To paraphrase John Lennon, So you say you want a civil war? With the U.S. facing one of the most consequential elections in its history, Dan has some thoughts about us all, our choices and the times in which we live.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Show 319 - A Recipe for Caesar

    Show 319 - A Recipe for Caesar
    Apr 1 2020
    Does a global pandemic help break the spell of our bitter partisan conflict, or does it just raise the stakes? In the first CS show in years Dan wrestles with the Zeitgeist.
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    1 hr and 26 mins