The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families
Education Podcasts
From the trusted team behind the Tuttle Twins books, join us as we tackle current events, hot topics, and fun ideas to help your family find clarity in a world full of confusion.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
From the trusted team behind the Tuttle Twins books, join us as we tackle current events, hot topics, and fun ideas to help your family find clarity in a world full of confusion.
Language:
English
Website:
https://tuttletwins.com/
Episodes
645. How Can We Disagree Kindly During Dinner Table Debates?
11/24/2025
How to listen, think, and speak kindly — even when we disagree.
Duration:00:14:01
644. How Did Voluntary Cooperation and Trade Turn Strangers into Friends?
11/20/2025
How cooperation and trade turned strangers into friends in Plymouth Colony.
Duration:00:16:52
643. How Does Spontaneous Order Fuels Your Thanksgiving Table?
11/18/2025
How trade and specialization bring the world to your Thanksgiving table.
Duration:00:14:42
642. What is a Contract?
11/13/2025
And what is the "social" contract?
Duration:00:13:08
641. What Have We Learned From COVID?
11/11/2025
Duration:00:14:06
640. Modern Diplomacy: Should we talk to everyone? Even the "bad guys"?
11/6/2025
The founding fathers had good advice - Honest friendship with all, entangling alliances with none. How situations like NATO, Ukraine, Russia and North Korea fit into that. Are organizations meant to keep the peace now drawing us into war?
Duration:00:14:44
639. Storytelling with A Message: An Interview with Storyteller, Sean Malone
11/4/2025
Today, Chief Creative Officer for Lexandria and friend of the podcast, Sean Malone, sits down to talk about storytelling across all sorts of different mediums and how he uses his art to educate others.
Duration:00:24:46
638. How Can You Make New Friends?
10/30/2025
Making new friends can seem scary. But it's one of the most important skills you can learn. Today Brittany talks about the importance of becoming a good conversationalist, Spoiler alert: sometimes that means talking less and listening more.
Duration:00:12:34
637. Do Adults Have It All Figured Out?
10/28/2025
On Today's episode, Rachel and Brittany reveal a shocking secret: maybe adults don't always have it all figured out.
Duration:00:13:54
636. What Philosophy Shaped The Constitution? Interview with FEE's Dan Sanchez
10/23/2025
Today, Brittany and FEE's Dan Sanchez talk about John Locke and the Constitution.
https://fee.org/articles/the-philosophy-that-framed-the-constitution/
https://fee.org/articles/the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/
https://libertyletters.substack.com/
Duration:00:22:46
635. Is It Illegal to Burn The American Flag?
10/21/2025
The First Amendment isn't just about free speech. In fact, it covers a lot of expression, including your right to burn an American Flag.
Duration:00:14:54
634. Why Can't We Just Print Up Enough Money to Pay Off the National Debt?
10/16/2025
The government has a printing press, and yet they are in debt. Why can't they just print up whatever they need to pay it off and call it a day? Lessons from the German hyperinflation of 1919-1923 and how chaotic that was.
Duration:00:15:25
633. What is Group Think?
10/14/2025
Today, Brittany dives into the "group think" bias and how it harms and divides us in society today.
Duration:00:14:15
632. Why Does Free Speech Get Tricky Sometimes?
10/9/2025
The First Amendment protects the right to free speech. But these days, there is a lot of debate about whether "hate" speech is protected and if it is ever okay for a private compay to engage in censorship.
Duration:00:17:10
631. Why Did New York's Best Teacher Quit Teaching?
10/7/2025
As students head back to school, it's important the lessons John Taylor Gatto about what education should and shouldn't be.
Duration:00:18:38
630. What Happened During The Constitutional Convention?
10/2/2025
Brittany dives into the discussions that eventually led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
Duration:00:15:07
629. Who Was Charlie Kirk?
9/30/2025
In this episode, Brittany explains why the young activist Charlie Kirk left such a mark on the world.
Duration:00:15:59
628. What Was Shays' Rebellion?
9/25/2025
In the final days of the Articles of Confederation, things started heating up when one farmer returning home from the Revolutionary War had had enough.
Duration:00:16:09
627. What Are The Articles of Confederation?
9/24/2025
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, but before the Constitution was signed, America was governed by what were called the Articles of Confederation.
Duration:00:14:31
626. Is America A "Democracy" or A "Constitutional Republic?"
9/18/2025
People throw around the term "democracy" when describing the American political system. Is America really a democracy?
Duration:00:13:05