In this Very Special™ one-year-anniversary episode of Impolitic, Paul and Sean look back over the past twelve months, highlight their picks for the key events of the year, and serve up some thoughts on how the events of Impolitic: Year One will be remembered by future historians. If journalism, as former WaPo publisher Philip Graham claimed, is the “first rough draft of history,” then consider this episode the second.
This week, Paul and Sean discuss London Breed’s election as Mayor of San Francisco and what it means for the Yes In My Back Yard movement and home prices. Then the guys finally finish their unpopular opinions, including libertarian racism, lower socialist growth rates, and a meh on Marx.
On this week’s installment, Paul and Sean discuss all things Amazon: from Seattle’s recently-thwarted head tax to US cities’ humiliating efforts to become the site of HQ2. Afterwards, they mull the ethics of making life hellish for Trump’s inner circle.
After damning Trump with faint praise for his Singapore summit with King Jong Un, the guys moot some unpopular beliefs about their own political and cultural tribes.
This week, special guess Jordan Poss comes on to talk about his passion for writing historical fiction. Along the way, he and Paul talk about overly romanticized accounts of World War Two, the original novel True Grit, and the end of an era at the Babylon Bee.
This week Paul recounts his fanboy encounter with distinguished historian Daniel Walker Howe. Then the guys go hammer and tongs (and sickle?) over whether a universal basic income or a job guarantee is the best radical option for reforming the liberal welfare state.
They’re back! The guys weigh in on the unsuccessful campaign of Don Blankensh** (censored for sake of the children in the audience) and the firing of Kevin Williamson. They also discuss the revelation that Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, owned ~$30 million in NYC taxi medallions that rapidly depreciated in value just before he started raking in the sweet, sketchy “consulting” dough from Russian oligarchs and crony capitalists.
