TinfoilHatsMatter

Every few years, voters rediscover that Congress is old. Then someone says "term limits," and the idea dies in the Supreme Court again. This episode makes the case that there's a better reform hiding in plain sight — one that's constitutionally defensible, historically grounded, and somehow more popular than almost any other policy in America: mandatory retirement ages. We trace why U.S. Term Limi...

# EP006 – Same Clowns, Different Tent ### Tech, Social Media, and the Business of Attention Addiction --- ## Episode Summary In 2006, a frustrated software designer named Aza Raskin got tired of clicking "page 2" on Google. So he built infinite scroll — a feature so seamlessly engineered for frictionless content consumption that it would later call his own invention "behavioral cocaine." That one...

# EP005 — Follow the Money ## How Donor-Friendly Decisions Get Sold as Public Policy **TinFoilHatsMatter** | Episode 005 Published: May 6, 2026 | Duration: ~35 min Available on Spotify · Apple Podcasts · YouTube --- ## Episode Summary What do the shutdown of a nuclear power plant, a Medicare drug benefit, the repeal of net neutrality, and corn ethanol subsidies have in common? In every case, the o...

Episode 004 — What Trump Got Right Show Notes The Episode For thirty years, the bipartisan economic establishment promised America a deal: send the factories overseas, and something better will come back. The workers would upskill. The towns would reinvent themselves. The invisible hand would sort it out. The invisible hand sorted out 6.7 million manufacturing jobs. The towns got opioid distributo...

The Empire That Keeps on Giving (Problems) King Charles III is in Washington this week for a state visit, which feels like the universe handing us a gift. So we took it. This episode is a guided tour through the parts of British imperial history that don't make it into the brochure — the borders drawn by people who'd never visited the places they were dividing, the democratic governments removed f...

TinFoilHatsMatter — Episode 002 The Second Amendment in Name Only File No.: 002 Declassified: Tuesday Running Time: TBD Classification: Plain-Sight The Second Amendment is a real, individual, constitutionally protected right. The Supreme Court has said so — repeatedly, emphatically, and with increasingly aggressive language. So why, after seventeen years of landmark rulings, does it still feel lik...

America's relationship with Iran didn't start with a missile strike — it started with a CIA coup in 1953. Operation Ajax overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had the audacity to suggest Iranian oil should belong to Iran. We installed the Shah, funded his brutal secret police, and acted surprised when 26 years of repression exploded into the 1979 Islamic Re...