Seven-Minute Opinions

by The Week
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Your audio guide to thought-provoking arguments on a variety of topics, from perspectives left, right, and center. These smart, concise podcasts pack big ideas into a short amount of time and promise to challenge, inspire, and get you thinking about a range of points of view that you may or may not agree with.

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Recent Episodes
  • Ep. 77: What the Star Wars 'who-shot-first' controversy tells us about modern-day fandom
    Dec 12, 2017 – 00:06:03
  • Ep. 76: A mourner's guide to surviving the holidays
    Dec 5, 2017 – 00:06:03
  • Ep. 75: Can liberal podcasters dethrone Limbaugh & Co.?
    Nov 28, 2017 – 00:06:55
  • Ep. 74: Thanksgiving is awesome!
    Nov 21, 2017 – 00:04:52
  • Ep. 73: Has Generation X lost its chance to occupy the White House?
    Nov 14, 2017 – 00:06:41
  • Ep. 72: What America lost when it ended the draft
    Nov 7, 2017 – 00:07:11
  • Ep. 71: Why scary books are better than scary movies
    Oct 31, 2017 – 00:06:03
  • Ep. 70: A definitive, absolutely correct, unquestionable ranking of the months of the year
    Oct 24, 2017 – 00:07:01
  • Ep. 69: What the Constitution really says about guns
    Oct 17, 2017 – 00:06:38
  • Ep. 68: The wild card game is killing baseball
    Oct 10, 2017 – 00:03:58
  • Ep. 67: Why immigration in Canada is less divisive than in the U.S.
    Oct 3, 2017 – 00:06:54
  • Ep. 66: Against autumn creep
    Sep 26, 2017 – 00:06:43
  • Ep. 65: How today's female politicians became modern heroines
    Sep 19, 2017 – 00:07:16
  • Ep. 64: America's bus system is broken
    Sep 12, 2017 – 00:06:54
  • Ep. 63: Why 'Frasier' is the best show to sleep to
    Sep 5, 2017 – 00:07:00
  • Ep. 62: Against a guaranteed jobs program
    Aug 29, 2017 – 00:06:43
  • Ep. 61: Why 'freedom of speech' is a cartoonish fantasy
    Aug 22, 2017 – 00:06:53
  • Ep. 60: President Trump and the perils of unchecked executive power
    Aug 15, 2017 – 00:05:25
  • Ep. 59: The fall of America
    Aug 8, 2017 – 00:05:52
  • Ep. 58: Make government simple again
    Aug 1, 2017 – 00:05:58
  • Ep. 57: Why you should vacation somewhere new, unexpected, and totally out of your comfort zone
    Jul 25, 2017 – 00:06:00
  • Ep. 56: Pregnancy is not a disease
    Jul 18, 2017 – 00:05:35
  • Ep. 55: The one thing you must always remember about President Trump
    Jul 11, 2017 – 00:05:15
  • Ep. 54: Why I don't celebrate the Fourth of July
    Jul 4, 2017 – 00:05:41
  • Ep. 53: I got an IUD. It was a nightmare.
    Jun 27, 2017 – 00:06:06
  • Ep. 52: In defense of child-free vacations
    Jun 20, 2017 – 00:06:30
  • Ep. 51: Want to be smarter than your friends? Watch C-SPAN.
    Jun 13, 2017 – 00:06:41
  • Ep. 50: It's time to declare war on climate change — literally
    Jun 6, 2017 – 00:04:59
  • Ep. 49: America needs more congressmen. Hundreds and hundreds more congressmen.
    May 30, 2017 – 00:06:59
  • Ep. 48: My 8-year-old daughter wanted to play basketball. But sexism got in the way.
    May 23, 2017 – 00:05:20
  • Ep. 47: I am a murderino
    May 16, 2017 – 00:07:00
  • Ep. 46: The beautiful fiction of Disneyland
    May 9, 2017 – 00:06:56
  • Ep. 45: There's never been a better time to watch 'Dirty Dancing'
    May 2, 2017 – 00:06:57
  • Ep. 44: I already miss the Chicago Cubs' curse
    Apr 25, 2017 – 00:06:09
  • Ep. 43: How Kellyanne Conway became the greatest spin doctor in modern American history
    Apr 18, 2017 – 00:06:56
  • Ep. 42: 'The health-care maze' #2: Why fixing American healthcare is easy
    Apr 11, 2017 – 00:05:35
  • Ep. 41: 'The health-care maze' #1: This is how American health care kills people
    Apr 4, 2017 – 00:07:20
  • Ep. 40: The sheer terror of being alone with our thoughts
    Mar 28, 2017 – 00:05:52
  • Ep. 39: Falling in love with March Madness
    Mar 21, 2017 – 00:06:09
  • Ep. 38: A love letter to my gynecologist
    Mar 14, 2017 – 00:06:07
  • Ep. 37: How to fix the Supreme Court
    Mar 7, 2017 – 00:06:12
  • Ep. 36: Death to corporate business-speak!
    Feb 28, 2017 – 00:05:45
  • Ep. 35: Reading 1984 in the age of Trump
    Feb 21, 2017 – 00:06:41
  • Ep. 34: Why we should all be having sex with robots
    Feb 14, 2017 – 00:06:13
  • Ep. 33: Why reality might stand a chance against Trump
    Feb 7, 2017 – 00:05:12
  • Ep. 32: Sherlock's bizarrely self-aware problem with women
    Jan 31, 2017 – 00:06:43
  • Ep. 31: Why it may be impossible to raise 'free range kids'
    Jan 24, 2017 – 00:05:53
  • Ep. 30 The strange serenity of Barack Obama
    Jan 17, 2017 – 00:07:00
  • Ep. 29: The scientific reason you should be watching Planet Earth
    Jan 10, 2017 – 00:06:43
  • Ep. 28: American Pravda: How Donald Trump could sovietize the media
    Jan 3, 2017 – 00:07:00
Recent Reviews
  • CoachBetts
    👍
    Love every episode!
  • db1060
    Puffy dribble
    Don't waste your time.
  • 21mimi305
    Hard to
    Not want to arugue your side. since it is an OPINION, you want to express yours too....
  • DeeDeewasme
    Different voices
    I have been reading The Week for a few months now and I just listened to the podcast, 7 Minute Opinions. I am very impressed with the variety of subjects and especially hearing so many different voices.
  • Rrreilyy
    Good to hear well thought out opinions
    Helps you to remain balanced in your own thoughts when you hear others express their thoughts.
  • JPthr33
    Delightsome to my ears
    A+++++
  • Kevin in Austin TX
    Good move. Alienate half your potential audience by being so extremely partisan
    Republicans learn something from the democrates? Right, like how to totally hose the economy? How to completely undo any positive foreign affairs gains and destroy the middle east? How to usurp our intelligence infastructure and risk the lives of every intelligence asset in the field? How to start a race war just in case some of the underprivleged were starting to see that they don't have to wait around for a handout to get by thereby keeping democrates in a job? We've learned enough.
  • B922335
    Clueless millennial
    Pure ignorant garbage.
  • Mullymartigan
    Thought provoking and on point
    As a reader of The Week and an avid podcast listener, it’s great to hear these ideas come alive off the page
  • KnowledgeHog
    Awesome sauce
    Great ideas to listen to while commuting.
  • Majastip
    Very entertaining
    Fun to hear!
  • Jack6742
    What The Week does best
    I've been enjoying their magazine for years, so nice to finally get something in the podcast format.
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