National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

David and Will consider Nevada’s late-to-the-apocalypse decision to make government unions a permanent feature of state and local politics in the Silver State. Senator Kamala Harris calls for an end to due process on college campuses.

David and Will discuss Victor Davis Hanson’s tour de force on the declining fortunes of once-fortunate California, the problem with raising the minimum wage, and one minister’s nuanced response to state prohibitions on conversion therapy.

California’s homeless population soars alongside programs that were supposed to reduce it, the state will fine the uninsured to fund health care for undocumented residents, and Sacramento destroys Central Valley farmland to lay tracks for a train we’ll never see.

Hollywood warns that new abortion law may kill Georgia film projects, Trump threatens new tariffs on Mexican imports, and California regulators finally admit coffee won’t give you cancer. Bonus: Winding up the Kamala Harris Klock!

Will and David talk about two places where left and right may increasingly agree -- the logic of school choice and the value of liberating housing markets. Bonus: we update the Kamala Harris Klock.

Donald Trump’s pardon of former California state lawmaker Pat Nolan brings David and Will back to a discussion of corporate welfare, criminal justice reform -- and personal redemption. Bonus: Let’s update the Kamala Harris Klock!

Governor Newsom’s plan to tax the “invisible labor” of Facebook users, Sacramento hiked teacher pay and then fired teachers, and a police union that protects and serves itself. Bonus! We update the Kamala Harris Klock.

Guest Steve Greenhut (R Street) talks with Will about the charter-school fight inside the NAACP, the real causes of homelessness, and the impact of the Trump tax plan on middle-class Californians.

Give tax breaks to wealthy LA hoteliers, require cities to build Soviet-style housing, and cut government services in order to boost the pay of government workers.

Not a joke: The officials who’ve made California’s gasoline the most expensive in the U.S. want to know who’s behind high gasoline prices. Also: Charter school battle pits government unions against Black and Latino parents and kids, and North Carolina decides it'll follow California’s road to serfdom.

Gavin Newsom tells Salvadorans they’ll always have California while the president proposes sheltering illegal immigrants in California’s sanctuary cities. The American flag divides Laguna Beach; charter-school killers loose in the state capitol; single-payer health care dies an early -- cause of death: temporary sanity.

Mark Zuckerberg wants federal regulation of new media, foreign hackers break into California’s DMV voter-registration system, the myth of the dangerous San Francisco millionaire, and corporate welfare in one of California’s poorest big cities.

Newport Beach attorney Michael Avenatti’s 14 minutes of fame; state senator John Moorlach’s German-inspired alternative to high-speed rail; the widening education achievement gap; Senator Kamala Harris’s call for a massive pay hike for public school teachers. Donald Trump orders colleges to support free speech or lose funding.

Devin Nunes’s Twitter suit over mean tweets, state lawmakers step into the admissions scandal accompanied by circus music, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris calls for reparations, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100.

Like a reverse miracle worker, Gavin Newsom suspends the death penalty and proposes a massive new water tax. Wealthy Californians discover a new way to get their progeny into top universities -- bribes! State lawmakers work overtime to produce 2500 bills, many designed to crush education for the poor.