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April 1, 2025

The New Left vs The New Right

This week, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg explore the rise of the 'abundance' ideology among Democrats, assess Obama's economic legacy, and analyze the New Right's evolving influence, offering a broad perspective on shifting p...

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March 25, 2025

Abundance Debate, Sex Politics, and Left vs Right Economic Populism

This week, Noah Smith and Erik Tornberg explore Japan’s economic and societal structure—covering urban zoning, housing policy, and government efficiency—before critiquing Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, advocating...

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March 18, 2025

How Europe, America and China Are Repositioning

This week, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg explore global economic issues, including US-European relations influenced by defense commitments, the impact of Trump’s policies, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its exclusion of...

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March 12, 2025

Making Sense of America's Tariff Chaos

This week, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg discuss the chaos caused by Trump's trade policies, tariffs' effects on the U.S. economy, potential recession risks, economic isolationism, policy uncertainty, investment impacts, and ...

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March 6, 2025

AI, Stargate, & Surveillance with Auron McIntyre and Lev Polyakov

In this episode, Noah Smith recently went on the Break the Rules podcast, hosted by Lev Polyakov, for a debate with Auron MacIntyre. They discuss the societal implications of AI development, focusing on Trump's relationships ...

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Feb. 28, 2025

Richard Hanania & Noah Smith: Making Sense of Trump, Elon, and Global Politics

This week, we're sharing Richard Hanania and Noah Smith’s live conversation from Feb 6th, recorded for their Substack audiences. This is the first time the two writers have met, and in this conversation they covered fundamen...

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Feb. 26, 2025

Elon calls Noah a Liar, Inflation, and How Democrats Can Fight Back

This week Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg discuss three key areas where Democrats need to rethink their strategy: embracing anti-inflation policies similar to the Clinton era, focusing on genuine threats to democracy rather tha...

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Feb. 19, 2025

Europe's Fate, Ukraine & Russia, and the Post-American Era

In this episode, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg discuss how Ukraine has proven surprisingly resilient throughout the war by maintaining its economy and developing significant domestic drone manufacturing capabilities. He argue...

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Feb. 14, 2025

How the Macro, Tariffs and DOGE will Impact your Bank Account | Noah Smith on How To Money

This week, we’re bringing you an episode from the How to Money podcast, hosted by Joel Larsgaard and Matt Altmix, with special guest Noah Smith.

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Feb. 12, 2025

Elon's Real Goal at DOGE and How to Fix the Debt

This week, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg dive into recent economic developments, exploring 'Doge'—a term for reducing government waste promoted by Elon Musk and the Trump administration—along with its ideological goals, fiscal impact, and effects on executive power, budget deficits, healthcare, social security, and government efficiency.

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