Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.
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Episode 244: Who Is This Guy?!
Gavin Newsom sounds alternately like James Madison and the staff of Mother Jones magazine.
Gavin Newsom sounds alternately like James Madison and the staff of Mother Jones magazine. David and Will factcheck the factcheckers on teacher pay. David reviews HBO’s “The Anarchists.” Will recalls Joan Didion and San Francisco punk quartet The Dead Kennedys. What Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard means when he says he’s giving up everything to save the planet. Music by Metalachi.
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Show Notes:
- On Joan Didion’s “Where I was from”
- David: ‘The Anarchists’ is a case study in the decadence of autonomy
- Will: California Über Alles
- Ninth Circuit rejects Gavin Newsom’s effort to send migrant detainees from California to other states
- Newsom denies presidential ambitions in Texas visit, attacks Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis
- California governor urges overhaul of Democrats’ strategy
- Commentary: Why Californians are working to flip red state legislatures blue
- Newsom signs 17 new abortion-rights bills
- Governor vetoes full-day and mandatory kindergarten bills
- Gov. Newsom vetoes bill on tax-exempt status for nonprofits tied to insurrection
- Gov. Newsom signs bill to redefine state’s Open Meeting Act
- Restaurant groups push to repeal California’s fast food council law
- California employers will soon be barred from testing employees for marijuana use
- Compost burial will be a new option for California families in 2027
- Fact check Florida teacher pay ranking
- Patagonia founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change
David L. Bahnsen is the managing partner of a wealth-management firm and a frequent writer and public commentator on matters of economics, faith and work, and markets.




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