The Overton Window

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

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125 episodes

‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
2026-1-09
Chris Surprenant talks integrating financial literacy at the high school level to improve outcomes
‘I truly believe this will transform education’
2025-12-12
Chris Waston discusses how AI can help teachers improve student outcomes
‘Film production is a stack of gigs’
2025-11-26
Michael Brown explains how film subsidies just don’t create jobs
‘Leadership of these unions has lost their way’
2025-11-14
Gene Hamilton discusses shifting The Overton Window back toward the interests of American workers
‘A lot of libertarianism feels like political science fiction’
2025-10-31
Brian Doherty talks about shifting the Overton Window in politics, statecraft, and comic books

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About The Overton Window

Have you noticed that politicians struggle to enact the things they run on? They find themselves bound by what is popular, or at least their sense of it. The narrow range of policies that they can enact is called the Overton Window. The Overton Window podcast looks at issues around the country and the people changing what is politically possible.

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