The Archive
Nearly three hundred long-form conversations — money, culture, power, and human flourishing, at the length the ideas require.
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07/31/2023
Jean Shepard (“Shep”), the legendary 60’s and 70’s WOR NYC late night radio show humorist and storyteller, romantically described the differences between what he considered to be “day people” and “night people.” Day people were conformists, night people were non-conformists, and he was proud…
03/02/2021
Guest(s): Frank Gaffney
Bill speaks with Frank Gaffney host of Securing America.
11/02/2020
Guest(s): Mark Tapscott
Last month Atlantic ran a hit piece on President Trump that was notable, even by today’s low standards of journalistic practice, for its invisible sourcing. It remains news because it typifies the realities of our increasingly fact-free media environment. “It’s based on four anonymous…
09/22/2020
Guest(s): John Tamny
Talking with John Tamny about his upcoming book “When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason.” His premise, and I agree, is that experts aren’t the answer to crisis, they are the crisis. What was needed at the…
09/19/2020
Guest(s): John Tamny
It’s Saturday in September and there’s no Big Ten football being played today. But in a not-so-surprising reversal, just weeks after Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pointedly said the decision not to play this year would “not be revisited”, they revisited. They just…
09/15/2020
Confused about what’s going on with the Post Office? I’ve been. So I asked my friend Brian McNicoll, who has written extensively about the post office for many years and has a real feel for its economics and the politics, to clarify what’s going…
08/26/2020
Guest(s): Angelo Codevilla
“From early March 2020 on, the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control— have presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague. But China’s experience, which its government obfuscated,…
