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On today’s episode: How Minnesota workers were affected by Operation Metro Surge, why coffee’s getting more expensive, and what happens when a sci-fi AI scenario meets the stock market.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory
Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let's theorize.
Audio Poem of the Day - When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman
Read by Mark Tardi
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Primal Screen
Today we reminisce about pre-internet money culture and the dangers of the new digital paradigm, particularly for children, on the backdrop of ongoing lawsuits against social media companies. How can children navigate this new world, will tech companies be held accountable, and how does all this connect to the Epstein files? Plus John recommends Allegra Goodman's This is Not About Us.
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Audio Mises Wire - The Bill of Rights Against the States
We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against state sovereignty and against our individual rights.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/bill-rights-against-states
Bad Faith - Episode 553 – AOC, Zohran & The Left’s Labor Pains (w/ Kshama Sawant)
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Washington Congressional candidate & former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant returns to Bad Faith to give her no-holds-barred assessment of left elected officials as they navigate the Democratic Establishment, to weigh in on the Epstein files -- including Chomsky's involvement --, and to provide a clear blueprint for how the left should resist. She also weighs in on the limits of labor given business unionism capture and strategies to overcome it, while updating us on the progress of her Congressional campaign against Zionist corporatist Adam Smith.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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Audio Mises Wire - In Defense of National Borders
The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place?
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/defense-national-borders
First Things Podcast - Admiration as Inspiration (ft. Elizabeth Corey)
In this episode, Elizabeth Corey joins R. R. Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about her recent piece, “On the Pleasure of Admiring” from the February 2026 issue of the magazine.
Audio Mises Wire - We Act in a World of Uncertainty, Not Probabilities
Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we anticipate.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-act-world-uncertainty-not-probabilities
The Indicator from Planet Money - How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia’s war
Russia exports billions of dollars worth of fish a year across the world. But after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. banned imports of Russian fish. It turns out those bans are only so effective. Today on the show, how Russia has dodged import bans to keep selling billions of dollars worth of seafood every year, and how the U.S. has struggled to stop it.
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