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Prof. Jonas Anderson on Why We Should Be Concerned That Judges Are Competing for Cases
I’m not completely sure how to convince you to listen to a patent law professor and a bankruptcy lawyer nerd out about why competition between judges…
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Nick Hagen
1:19:48
The Neophytes Self-Diagnose: Why Are We Libs?
In this episode, Thomas and I try to figure out where exactly our political beliefs came from: we have a sense of what we believe, but why do we believe…
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Nick Hagen
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1:45:35
I'm Not Sure What to Call This, But It Began as an Epstein Reaction Article
And then got a little darker.
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July 2025

The Neophytes Have Never Been to Epstein Island
And should we, for some inexplicable reason, show up in the Epstein Files, we direct all inquiries to our legal counsel (me).
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Nick Hagen
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1:35:23
The Neophytes Talk the Big Beautiful Bill, Trolling, Trust in the Government, and American Pride
In this episode, Thomas and I discuss the Big Beautiful Bill, my (perhaps hypocritical) hatred of trolling, diminished trust in the federal government…
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Nick Hagen
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1:39:07
A Mostly Serious Meditation on Patriotism
Honestly, probably my favorite article to date. Accurate and coherent? Perhaps not, but I sure had fun writing it.
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Nick Hagen
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Do You Trust the Federal Government to Do What Is Right?
No more than a quarter of Americans have really trusted the government since I was in high school.
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Nick Hagen
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June 2025

The Neophytes Talk Protests, Immigration, Political Violence, and More
The Neophytes are back!
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Nick Hagen
9
1:46:47
On Moral Certainty and Israel-Iran
Certainty, in and of itself, is not good nor bad nor right nor wrong—it’s just certain.
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K-12 Education Expert Karen Vaites On Reversing America’s Decline in Reading Achievement
Since 1969, the National Assessment Governing Board has been conducting the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—the “Nation’s Report…
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Karen Vaites
1:00:43
Los Angeles Is(n't?) Burning, Part 1
In certain respects, writing about the Trump administration is like trying to pin the tail on a live donkey: just when you think you’ve got it, it moves…
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Nick Hagen
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EU Parliament Member Johan Van Overtveldt on The Icarus Curse
It isn’t every day you get to talk to one of the 720 members of the European Parliament, one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union.
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Nick Hagen
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