Central Air
Josh Barro, Megan McArdle & Ben Dreyfuss
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The Talent Show (feat. Matt Yglesias)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Matt Yglesias joins us to recap WelcomeFest and discuss “dog-whistle moderation," and why the…
Central Air Live at WelcomeFest
Listen to two conversations Josh, Ben and Megan had at WelcomeFest, the center-left organizing conference: one with San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins, and the other with Tejano singing…
Urban Centers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comThis week: Reihan Salam of the conservative Manhattan Institute on the state of the center and the right in…
Central Air Live with Nate Silver
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comAs noted last week, we don’t have a regular episode this week, due to the Memorial Day holiday. We’ll be back…
Europe Needs Central Air
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.centralairpodcast.comOn this week's show: Why is Europe poor? Megan wrote about the issue this week, and Sam Bowman of Works in…
Central Heat (w/ Robinson Meyer)
On this week's show: Robinson Meyer, executive editor of the excellent Heatmap News, talks with us about why oil has not gotten even more expensive, if there is hope for permitting reform, why…
Major Podcast Incoming
On this week's show: Gary Leff, author of the View From the Wing blog on the airline industry, joins us to discuss who killed Spirit Airlines — the airline made strategic errors, but it could have…
No Rules, Just Fight (w/ Sean Trende)
On this week's show: Sean Trende joins us to discuss the continued devolvement of the gerrymandering wars. Sean is an election analyst for Real Clear Politics and lecturer in political science at The…
This Podcast Is Going to the Dogs
On this week's show: We joined in the discourse about whether dog owners have gotten too big for their britches. (Dogs are sycophants, I say — at least cats have self-respect.) We discussed the…
Party of the People?
On this week's show: Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini joins to discuss the strength of Trump's multiracial populist coalition amid the Iran war. He offers his take on how the Republican party can…
AIPAC Throwdown
On this week's show: Daniel Biss joins to discuss the changing way Democrats are relating to Israel. Daniel is the mayor of Evanston, Ill., and very likely soon to be a member of Congress…
We All Live in Florida Now
On this week's show: Marc Caputo, White House Correspondent for Axios, joins the podcast to help us understand how Trump and his advisers are deciding what to do with the Iran war, and how they are…
Every Centrist's Favorite Socialist (feat. Tyler Austin Harper)
On this week's show Tyler Austin Harper joins to talk about his reporting on the Mellon Foundation and its role in pushing humanities academia in the direction of progressive social activism, his…
The Gay of Hormuz
On this week's show: congressional candidate Alex Bores — he’s a New York state representative and author of the controversial AI regulation law, the RAISE Act — joins us to talk about the fight…
Revolt of the Billionaires
On this week's show: Mike Solana of Pirate Wires joins us to talk about Silicon Valley. He’s been talking with lots of billionaires who are taking steps to exit California in anticipation of a…
Real Accounts (feat. Jesse Singal)
On this week's show: Jesse Singal, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast, joins us to discuss the shift toward more cautious thinking among (some of) the U.S. medical societies about youth…
No Audience Capture at Central Air (feat. Tim Miller)
On this week's show: The Bulwark's Tim Miller joins to discuss his recent trip to Minnesota, the apparent continuation of significant but less bombastic ICE operations in the state, and why we differ…
Presidentmaxxing
On this week's show: Cartoons Hate Her joins us to make her argument that Democrats need a presidential candidate who “fucks.” First we try to figure out what this figurative sense of “fuck” means…
This Podcast Is Affordable
On this week's show: everyone loves to talk about affordability these days, or more specifically, they love to complain about unaffordability. But what are they actually complaining about? At least…
We're All in the Epstein Files (feat. Ross Douthat)
On this week's show: we’re really excited to have Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times and host of the Times’s “Interesting Times” podcast, join us. We give the Epstein Files the Washington…
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Central Air has published 34 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in News, Politics.
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