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Latest Episodes
Mike Brock: Technology, Ideology, and Neoreaction | WatchCats #14
If you’ve been listening to WatchCats for a while, you’ve probably heard us refer in passing to “neoreaction” (sometimes pretentiously dubbed the “dark enlightenment”)...
Jessica Riedl: A Fiscal Conservative Critique of DOGE | WatchCats #13
If you’d expect anybody to be enthusiastic about the Department of Government Efficiency, it would be Jessica Riedl, a senior fellow and economic policy expert at the ...
Nathan Tankus: Tracking the Treasury Payments System Crisis | WatchCats #12
If you’ve been trying to follow the nitty-gritty details of DOGE’s efforts to seize control of the Treasury Department’s payments system—and why it’s so important—then...
John Davisson: Taking DOGE to Court to Protect Privacy | WatchCats #11
For more than 30 years, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has been advocating for—and litigating to protect—personal privacy against increasing technological e...
Emily Badger: What DOGE Knows About You | WatchCats #10
For most of her career in journalism—first at The Washington Post, now at The New York Times—Emily Badger’s beat had been housing, transportation, and urban policy. Bu...