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Oct 2026

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Contributors at The Sling debate the most pressing competition issues of the day, often joined by a special guest.

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October 15, 2026Episode 3434 min

Slingshot Episode 34

Brendan Ballou, author of the book "When Companies Run the Courts," describes the dangers of mandatory arbitration and how to restore our rights to a day in court.

October 2, 2026Episode 331 hr 4 min

Slingshot Episode 33

Darren and Hal interview Arin Dube, economics professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It.

September 21, 2026Episode 3253 min

Slingshot Episode 32

Lindsay Owens, President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative, comes on the show to discuss her new book, Gouged: The End of a Fair Price and What That Means for Your Wallet .

September 4, 2026Episode 3133 min

Slingshot Episode 31

Darren and Hal discuss anticompetitive strategies by large gun retailers with Hudson Munoz, executive director of Guns Down America, and author of a new report titled “The Price Is Wrong: How the Gun Industry Fixed Prices, But Fails on Safety.

June 26, 2026Episode 3049 min

Slingshot Episode 30

Darren and Hal interview Spencer Webber Waller about his soon-to-be-released book, Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage.

May 2, 2026Episode 2952 min

Slingshot Episode 29

Eric Beinhocker, Professor at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, discusses his forthcoming book, Market Humanism, which sets out a new economic paradigm to replace neoliberalism.

April 13, 2026Episode 2853 min

Slingshot Episode 28

Hal and Darren speak with Brian Callaci about his new book, Chain of Command, as well as the impact of AI on labor markets and Brian’s empirical paper on measuring the wage effect of no-poach agreements.

December 23, 2025Episode 271 hr 6 min

Slingshot Episode 27

Basel Musharbash of the Antimonopoly Counsel explains the cause of skyrocketing prices for groceries and housing.

December 5, 2025Episode 2641 min

Slingshot Episode 26

Tim Wu, Professor at Columbia Law School, former advisor in the Biden White House is the author of the new book, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (2025). Hal and Darren chat about the book, platform competition, and Tim’s New York Times pieces on Meta and the 1st Amendment.

November 24, 2025Episode 2540 min

Slingshot Episode 25

Daniel Boguslaw and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis come onto the show to discuss why the latest revelation of Larry Summers's entanglements with Jeffrey Epstein are different from prior revelations, as well as the extent to which Summers was platformed so out of proportion with how his punditry played out.