The Way the World Works: A Tuttle Twins Podcast for Families

Understanding the world wars is important to understanding the state of the world's foreign conflicts today.

To understand why countries engage in warfare, it's important to understand the ideas that lead to this kind of thinking and behavior. Today, Connor and Brittany discuss the ten deadly ideas that lea…

The word "activism" gets thrown around a lot, and has all sorts of reputations, but it’s an important part of our country’s history and super important if you care about helping this country move in …

Being critical and thinking independently is a challenge, no matter how old you are or how much you’ve accomplished. But it’s one of the most important things you can ever learn how to do. .

We often hear people say that the "greater good" is more important than protecting the individual. This line of thinking has been used to promote public policies that put the collective good ahead of…

Ben Franklin is one of our country's most eccentric and important Founding Father. Today, Brittany and Emma discuss his legacy not only as a Founder, but as a revolutionary scientist and inventor.

Lots of people think billionaires are selfish for not sharing their wealth with the others. But it is thanks to billionaires that civilization has had some of its most important innovations from uten…

On this episode, Emma and Brittany quiz each other to see how much they remember from past episodes. How much do you remember? Listen and test your own knowledge!

In 1961, the communists who controlled the Eastern side of Germany after WWII began building a wall to shield their people from the capitalist Western side of Germany. This resulted in families being…

Before the Constitution was ratified, the newly formed United States was governed by a document called the Articles of Confederation.

In the Tuttle Twins Learn about The Law, readers got to learn a bit about economist Frédéric Bastiat. Now, a new book, written by Jonathan Newman, continues to teach young people about Bastiat in his…

One of the most infamous tyrants of all time was Adolf Hitler who instituted the Nazi Regime in Germany seeking world domination and starting WWII.

Tyrants aren't born that way, they are created. And all tyrants follow the same formula to grab power and rule over their authoritarian regimes.

Today Connor and Brittany are joined by Tim Chermak, a successful business owner and former child serial entrepreneur.

Unintended consequences is the idea that actions can sometimes have outcomes that you didn’t plan on, and that affect you or even the world around you negatively. Today Emma and Brittany discuss how …

The word “corporation” gets thrown around a lot, usually with bad associations. A lot of people like to blame big businesses for all of our problems, but it’s not always that straightforward.

Today Emma and Brittany discuss another logical fallacy called a "False Cause," and explain how correlation does not always equal causation?

In 1936, Olympian runner Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the Berlin games, showing Hitler that race did not make a person inferior to another.

Of all the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes that have existed, North Korea is especially awful. On this episode Connor and Brittany discuss how North Korea came to be and what life is like for…

Governments often spread lies in order to impact individual's behavior. Plato called this the "Noble Lie" because those in power believe that the people need to be lied to for their own good.