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The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology is a think-tank devoted to investigating policy relevant, underexplored topics in the social sciences. Podcasts include webinars from sc...

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Margaritaville Retirement Communities and Utopian Socialism | Samuel Moyn on Gerontocracy

Samuel Moyn is a professor at Yale Law School. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoar...

72:35Aug 17, 2026

"A Process Girl Living in an Outcomes World"

Sarah Isgur ( X ) is a former spokesperson at the Department of Justice and one of the hosts of the Advisory Opinions podcast. She joins thi...

80:57Apr 14, 2026

What Does Kim Jong Un Want? | Richard Hanania & Peter Ward

In this episode, Richard Hanania speaks with Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute. Ward studies North Korean foreign policy...

79:30Mar 30, 2026

Abundance, Liberals, and the Future of Conservatism

Jesse Arm ( X , Substack ) is the Vice President of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute. He joins the podcast to talk about his rece...

69:03Nov 24, 2025

Populism as a Backlash to Immigration

Laurenz Guenther ( X , website ) is a Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. He joins the podcast to discuss his working paper...

63:33Aug 27, 2025

Do We Need a More Assertive Congress?

Philip Wallach ( follow on X ) is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the book Why Congress , which he jo...

61:00Mar 13, 2025

Answering the Anti-Vaxxers | Stephen Goldstein & Richard Hanania

Stephen Goldstein ( follow on X ) is a postdoc in Evolutionary Virology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he specializes i...

58:30Dec 17, 2024

How the Race Taboo Swallowed Our Political Culture | Eric Kaufmann & Richard Hanania

Eric Kaufmann is a research fellow at CSPI and a professor of politics at the University of Buckingham. He joins the podcast to talk about h...

77:08Jul 15, 2024

Sorting Through 498,000 Clinical Trials

Bess Stillman ( email ) is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic and writes at Everything Is An Emergency . She is also an excellent storyteller who u...

68:04Jun 17, 2024

Nature, Nurture, and Overcoming Hardship | Rob Henderson and Richard Hanania on "Troubled"

Rob Henderson joins the podcast to talk about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class . The conversation starts...

62:59May 6, 2024

Debt Commission to the Rescue? | Romina Boccia & Richard Hanania

Romina Boccia is the director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she writes about government spending, the debt p...

56:39Apr 1, 2024

The Threat of AI Regulation with Brian Chau

Brian Chau writes and hosts a podcast at the From the New World Substack, and recently established a new think tank, the Alliance for the Fu...

72:49Mar 18, 2024

Ideology, Trade, and War | Andrew Roberts & Richard Hanania on Napoleon

Andrew Roberts ( website , follow on X ) is a historian, Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a me...

47:10Jan 22, 2024

Heading Towards the Fiscal Cliff | Brian Riedl & Richard Hanania

Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. His previous jobs include chief eco...

54:04Nov 20, 2023

No Need to Argue. Just Build | Niklas Anzinger & Richard Hanania

Niklas Anzinger is the founder and General Partner of Infinita , the first Próspera-based VC fund, which invests in founders overcoming regu...

57:46Oct 30, 2023

Propaganda and Power | Chris Rufo & Richard Hanania

Chris Rufo joins the podcast to talk about his new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything . Rufo beg...

80:39Jul 24, 2023

AI Alignment as a Solvable Problem | Leopold Aschenbrenner & Richard Hanania

In the popular imagination, the AI alignment debate is between those who say everything is hopeless, and others who tell us there is nothing...

62:08May 15, 2023

Understanding Right and Left | Bryan Caplan & Richard Hanania

Bryan Caplan joins the podcast to talk about his new book, Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality . Bryan begins by exp...

92:49May 1, 2023

Marc Andreessen On Venture Capital, Science, Tech, Progress, and More (Rerelease)

This week we’re rereleasing a previous episode with Marc Andreessen, originally released on August 16, 2021. He is co-founder and general pa...

116:30Mar 27, 2023

Waiting for the Betterness Explosion | Robin Hanson & Richard Hanania

Robin Hanson joins the podcast to talk about the AI debate. He explains his reasons for being skeptical about “foom,” or the idea that there...

102:06Mar 13, 2023