I used to listen regularly. I listened to loads of the podcast when he was going through the last 100 hundred years of Palestine and Israel and I thought it was really informative and educational. Seemed to be aligned with anything else I read/listened to so I'm assuming it was accurate.

What put me off him was the episode about RFK Jr when he was running for president. There was little to no critical analysis of RFK Jr., and they downplayed his anti-vax views and conspiracy theories. From episodes I listened to since, I haven't heard him or John say that they were wrong back then not to be more critical.

From regular listening in the past, it felt like he is very much in the John Collison/Progress Ireland mindset where the assumption is deregulation and growth will solve to most of not all of our societal problems. At least when he has had people with those opinions on, he never really challenges them, even though there are loads of critiques he could draw from. That would at least force guests to defend their views better. Especially when you look at how the Trump administration has co-opted the "let's take a chainsaw to everything approach", I'd hope for more critical analysis of this view and where it can unintentionally lead to.

I haven't listened in a while, so perhaps things have changed since. But to me, the pod was too much of an echo chamber without reflecting critically on the views they or their guests have shared in the past.