Category: Audio/Video

Source: National Public Radio [US state media]

“Americans give Trump low marks on the economy in new poll.” (12/17/25)

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5647344/americans-give-trump-low-marks-on-the-economy-in-new-poll

Source: Quillette

“The Genius of Jane Austen.” (12/17/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/12/17/podcast-316-the-genius-of-jane-austen/

Source: The Bulwark

“LIVE REACTION: Trump White House Address (w/ Tim Miller, Andrew Egger & Will Saletan).” (12/17/25)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3cDoMp4-M

Source: Bluegrass Institute

“Kentucky is in the early stages of a housing affordability crisis—and we can either learn from California’s catastrophic failures or chart a better course.” (12/17/25)

https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/video-making-room-for-the-next-generation-of-kentuckians/

Source: The Political Orphanage

“Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror.” (12/17/25)

https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/jason-pargin-on-internet-addiction-and-algorithmic-horror

Source: Reason

“Did the Internet Break Our Sense of Reality?” (12/17/25)

https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/17/did-the-internet-break-our-sense-of-reality/

Source: The Hill

“Free Heng Guan! Don’t deport exposer of China’s Uyghur concentration camps.” (12/17/25)

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5652743-rising-december-17-2025/

Source: Reason

“Reason‘s Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown go head to head with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim from Breaking Points in a thought-provoking debate about Big Tech.” (12/17/25)

https://reason.com/podcast/2025/12/17/reason-vs-breaking-points-does-big-tech-do-more-good-than-harm/

Source: The New Republic

“Trump Press Sec Goes Off Rails as Susie Wiles Fiasco Takes Worse Turn.” (12/16/25)

https://newrepublic.com/article/204531/trump-press-sec-goes-off-rails-susie-wiles-fiasco-takes-worse-turn

Source: Cato Institute

“Cato’s Ian Vásquez and the Fraser Institute’s Matt Mitchell walk through the 2025 edition of the Human Freedom Index, documenting a worldwide decline in economic, civil, and personal freedoms that began before the pandemic and sharply accelerated after it. They explain how populism, authoritarian emergency powers, trade restrictions, and speech controls have left nine in ten people living in less free societies, and why the recovery remains uneven and fragile.” (12/16/25)

https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/global-freedom-slump