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12: Warts and All
While serving as locally elected officials, we’d hear all the time from residents asking us why government didn’t act more like a business. After all, isn’t it capitalism that made this country great, so why doesn’t government operate in the same way? Thi
11: Brain Frog
It feels like America has gotten dumber over the last few decades. Is that indeed true, and if so, why? As that is a bit vague and pejorative, the podcast looks at more specific issues, including ignorance, intellectual stubbornness, and lack of critical
10: Toad You So
For this tenth episode, Seth and Mark decided to have a little fun and stray from the modus operandi of the first nine episodes of The Boiling Frog. Just for fun, our hosts make this episode a series of diatribes, fulfilling the expectations of Seth’s wif
8: Toadtalitarian
A follow up from The Changing Lily Pad, this podcast explores why corruption exists, where it comes from and why it appears that there is more corruption in people and organizations that are conservative.
7: Toad Rage
“Wokeness” and “Cancel Culture” are popular terms in our modern political and social parlance, but what do they actually mean? How should we think about the concept of “canceling” – is it behavior gone too far, or is it just about accountability?
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Readers, Not Algorithms, Are the Issue
A recent article in Nature reported on the results of the first (so far as I know) research into how search algorithms might encourage/promote partisanship.
The Community Is Critical
There was an interesting op ed in the journal Science recently, talking about how, even in something as objective as the pursuit of scientific insights,
Honoring MLK
I’m embarrassed to admit that, like I suspect many White Americans, when I think about “Martin Luther King” and “speeches” I only come up with
Prisoner Voting Rights
One of our listeners contacted us to comment on our recent podcast, Toad to the White House, where we discussed, among other things, why both
Dramatic Statement of the Obvious, Redux
An article today in the New York Times tell us what we already knew would happen (certainly to listeners of The Boiling Frog, and specifically
“Originalism” and Voting Rights
After recording our 19th podcast (The Toad to the White House) on voting rights a friend with far more knowledge of the Constitution than me