Panoptic Perspectives: Recent Episodes

Broken Window Media

A podcast examining current issues with a wide lens.

Curriculum, Public Education, and Indoctrination

Wholesale Slaughter, Celebrating Death, and RBG

Football, Masks, and Paranoia

Masks, soccer, and overreach

Biden, Masks, and the American Divide

Trump, paternalism, and COVID

Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump, and changing workplace dynamics

Platform shoes, social media, and humor

Race fraud and privilege.

We wrap up our week-long we break down an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Attorney General William Barr.

We continue our week-long we break down an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Attorney General William Barr.

We continue our week-long we break down an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Attorney General William Barr.

All week long we break down an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Attorney General William Barr.

All week long we break down an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Attorney General William Barr.

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Observing reality gets you fired.

Renaming our economic ideas.

A discussion of a perfectly fine t-shirt.

A discussion of masked virtue signaling.

Don't blame junk food on the market.

Sometimes winning looks like losing.

The positive side of automation.

The positive benefits of accelerating innovation.

The positive direction that business is moving in.

A solo hosted week bringing you some positivity. First up: music.

A discussion of what shady Russian vaccines can tell us about markets.

A discussion of the lack of representation in the United States government.

Old politicians can't compete with market response time.

The stupidity of government attempting to regulate what it can't understand

How perverse incentives led to the explosion in Beruit

There is no normal

Automation isn't scary.

What politics can cost us.

The censoring of doctors.

The Left cancels a medicine?

A superior alternative to the phrase "black lives matter."

A discussion of the strange intersection of Marxism and Black Lives Matter

A discussion of Leftist McCarthyism.

The end of the Dollar's reserve status.

An economics lesson that applies to every area of life.

A ranging discussion beginning with some thoughts on how to think about Covid statistics.

How grocery stores should handle mask mandates.

The sad state of the New York Times, journalism, and public discourse, with a bit of Nazi talk thrown in.

Don't do this to kids.

It's all unraveling.

A discussion of money and masculinity.

How science is corrupted by politics, with reference to this web page: https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/

Masks are useless but mandate while real problems go ignored.

The return of the Covidiot of the Week.

A discussion of Michigan's new mask executive order.

A discussion of the nature of expertise.

Has the lack of sports increased the likelihood of societal chaos?

A discussion of the ugly underbelly of the Black Lives Matter organization leads to a tangent on the role of the family.

Some thoughts on the role of statues.

A discussion of the dangers of mob rule.

A discussion on how the Black Lives Matter movement has evolved into a religion

A discussion of the the #ShutdownSTEM movement.

A discussion of police failure on three levels.

This week's Protest Logic Oxymoron of the Week

A discussion of strategic failures and Black Lives Matters.

Part 3 of 3 of a discussion on white privilege.

Part 2 of 3 of a discussion on white privilege.

Part 1 of 3 of a discussion on white privilege in response to this article https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2017/09/08/my-white-friend-asked-me-on-facebook-to-explain-white-privilege-i-decided-to-be-honest/

This week's Protest Logic OxyMoron of the Week

We explain why it actually makes sense for two white guys to discuss racism.

A discussion of how the disastrous handling of protests has been another example of the tragedy of the commons.

Some sympathy for Black Lives Matter and their antifa predicament.

A scolding of Nickelodeon and discussion of childhood.

Introducing our Protest Logic: Oxymoron of Week

A brief discussion of George Floyd's background and autopsy reports.

Why was Target one of the first places ransacked?

More on property and protests.

We discuss the idea of property rights and protests.

A discussion of some heroes in the early days of protests.

We discuss the end of the pandemic, and the beginning of the next phase of the podcast as we transition to discussion on the next phase of the apocalypse: the protests/riots.

We name and analyze the Covidiot of the Pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the coming recession during and after the coronavirus pandemic. Things devolve from there.

Some speculation regarding the coming recession during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding cable news during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding Major League Baseball during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding The Federal Reserve during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding vaccines during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding haircuts and defiant barbers during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding bad legislation (The HEROES Act) during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding unintended consequences and policing during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding death (and Chris Christie) during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding trolling during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding unsolicited advice during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding judicial snobbery during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding civil disobedience during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding justification during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding censorship during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the effects of using masks during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci and hero complexes during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding assessment of risk and sensible discussion during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the idea of health, both physical and economic, during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding hospital bankruptcy and layoffs during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the food supply during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding layoffs during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding statistical analysis during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding drone delivery during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding automation during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation (or petty whining) about sardines during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding what is essential during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding meat production during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding regarding letting businesses fail during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation(or rather perspective) regarding unemployment during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the the unexpected consequences of economic stimulus during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding pricing signals during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the trade-offs made during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation/ranting regarding Governor Whitmer and the state of Michigan during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation about media in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding local politics during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding our relationship with creativity during the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the concept of productivity during the coronavirus pandemic.

Some speculation regarding the opportunity presented by the coronavirus pandemic.