Central Air

The Time Tax (feat. Annie Lowrey)

This week: Annie Lowrey on the time, effort, money, and psychological costs some government policies impose on us. Filling out endless forms, repeatedly proving eligibili

Calling All Cranks

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Cranks make society work. We challenge the popular consensus, and we a

The Best of the Worst

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: David Ellison is displeased about the California-led lawsuit to stop t

Lower Education

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: UCLA sociology professor Gabriel Rossman joins us this week to talk ab

The Gen Z Takeover (feat. Kristen Soltis Anderson)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us all about the state of polli

Cheap Meats

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: It's another edition of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Ma

The 'Woke' Odyssey (feat. Sonny Bunch)

This week: Sonny Bunch joins us to talk about “The Odyssey,” what we thought of the film, whether the controversy about some casting decisions materialized, and more. Als

Seeking the Tribune of the Downwardly Mobile (feat. Tyler Austin Harper)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Tyler Austin Harper returns to Central Air to discuss the ignominious

Inflation Grades

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Jason Furman joins the show this week for an economy-focused discussio

AI Probably Won't Kill Everyone

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: the case for AI regulation and what it would look like, with Dean Ball

Speaking of Getting Screwed (feat. Andrew Sullivan)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Andrew Sullivan joins us from Provincetown to assess the emergent Iran

The Talent Show (feat. Matt Yglesias)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Matt Yglesias joins us to recap WelcomeFest and discuss “dog-whistle m

Central Air Live at WelcomeFest

Listen to two conversations Josh, Ben and Megan had at WelcomeFest, the center-left organizing conference: one with San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins, and the other with Te

Urban Centers

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com This week: Reihan Salam of the conservative Manhattan Institute on the state of t

Central Air Live with Nate Silver

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com As noted last week, we don’t have a regular episode this week, due to the Memoria

Europe Needs Central Air

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.com On this week's show: Why is Europe poor? Megan wrote about the issue this week, a

Central Heat (w/ Robinson Meyer)

On this week's show: Robinson Meyer, executive editor of the excellent Heatmap News, talks with us about why oil has not gotten even more expensive, if there is hope for

Major Podcast Incoming

On this week's show: Gary Leff, author of the View From the Wing blog on the airline industry, joins us to discuss who killed Spirit Airlines — the airline made strategic

No Rules, Just Fight (w/ Sean Trende)

On this week's show: Sean Trende joins us to discuss the continued devolvement of the gerrymandering wars. Sean is an election analyst for Real Clear Politics and lecture

This Podcast Is Going to the Dogs

On this week's show: We joined in the discourse about whether dog owners have gotten too big for their britches. (Dogs are sycophants, I say — at least cats have self-res