The Overton Window Podcast

‘Thirty to forty years ago, this was actually a debatable question. Now that we have the data in hand it’s much less debatable’

Robert Lawson on the Economic Freedom of the World Index and improvements in economic liberty

James M. Hohman | September 22, 2023

‘If that sounds outrageous and corrupt, it’s because it is’

Pat Garofalo works to prevent lawmakers from signing nondisclosure agreements about business subsidy negotiations

James M. Hohman | September 8, 2023

‘Now it’s simply referred to as the Overton Window, as if everyone knows what it is’

Larry Reed and Joe Lehman on the Overton Window and Joe Overton

James M. Hohman | August 25, 2023

‘The power of these policies is to individualize education for children’

Jon England on supporting the changes in the education marketplace

James M. Hohman | August 11, 2023

‘This is my home and I’m going to fight for this thing’

Matt Paprocki on making a difference in Illinois policy

James M. Hohman | July 28, 2023

‘They say it adds up to real money’

Sheng Li on reinvigorating the separation of powers through lawsuits

James M. Hohman | July 14, 2023

‘Sometimes cynical explanations are the correct ones’

Chris Douglas on stadium subsidies

James M. Hohman | June 30, 2023

‘Argument is the great source of political power’

George Will on changing minds over 50 years of column-writing and how the Overton Window shifted in baseball

James M. Hohman | June 16, 2023

‘The federal government has stepped in and broken the market’

Preston Cooper on his plan to change federal college aid

James M. Hohman | June 2, 2023

‘The Great Depression pushed relegalization into the Overton Window’

Jason Taylor on the social changes that led to Prohibition and its repeal

James M. Hohman | May 19, 2023

‘It’s focused on destroying credibility instead of dealing with facts’

Jarrett Skorup on persuasion in the political debate

James M. Hohman | May 5, 2023

‘I think that’s a little bit of political cowardice’

Jon Sanders on putting bounds on the administrative state

James M. Hohman | April 21, 2023

‘A conservationist is an environmentalist with a chainsaw’

Rich Bowman on Practical Environmentalism

James M. Hohman | April 7, 2023

‘I didn’t think courts had that ability, and I still don’t’

Alisha, friend of the Overton Window Podcast, wants to know about the state Supreme Court

James M. Hohman | March 24, 2023

‘They delivered on what they said they were going to do’

John Hendrickson on the big changes made in Iowa

James M. Hohman | March 10, 2023

‘I don’t appear to have any effect at all on most Republican office holders but I’m not going to stop trying’

Tucker Carlson on daily political commentary

James M. Hohman | February 24, 2023

‘Decarbonization has really thrown a wrench into the gears’

Jason Hayes on the Overton Window for electricity regulation

James M. Hohman | February 10, 2023

‘It’s the message that hopefully I can carry on behalf of Michigan families’

Beth DeShone on issue lobbying

James M. Hohman | January 27, 2023

‘It’s not like the auto industry ever wanted something from the state government and didn’t get it’

Dawson Bell on changes to Michigan’s political landscape

James M. Hohman | January 13, 2023

‘What we have now is a system that’s run by politicians, and it works poorly’

Bob Poole on the steps taken toward his goal of a better transportation system

James M. Hohman | December 16, 2022

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