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The Melting Pot

Megan McArdle of the Washington Post joins our hosts to discuss immigration and what it means to be American.

Other Podcast Episodes


Interview with a Robot

Timothy Nerozzi joins our hosts to discuss his recent piece for the website and to interview its subject, the recently laicized AI priest, Father Justin.


The Travel Team Trap

Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner joins our hosts to discuss his new book, Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, and to debate "The Travel Team Trap" with Nick Cotta, a father of eight children, two of whom play travel sports.


More Impossible Things

Stanley Fish joins our hosts to discuss "Impossible Things," his recent essay for the magazine, in which he catologues the latest attempts in a perennial project to clean up human behavior, from blind submission to critical legal studies to artificial intelligence. Professor Fish is the presidential scholar in residence at New College, Florida, and the author of many books, most recently, Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art, which is available for purchase here.


Hell No? A Debate on the Existence of Eternal Punishment

Matthew Walther and Jordan Daniel Wood debate the existence of Hell at an event co-hosted with the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. 


The Tootsie Pop Test

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