Masters in Public Affairs is a podcast about the fundamentals of public affairs — how power moves, how opinion forms, and how change actually happens.
Kobe Bryant used to do 45-minute pre-dawn workouts on nothing but footwork. Michael Jordan warmed up every practice with a chest pass. The greatest to ever play their game, still drilling the basics.
The best public affairs practitioners operate the same way. They return to the same books, the same ideas, the same first principles — again and again.
Each episode goes deep on one book that belongs in the canon. Not to summarize it, but to extract what lasts: the core idea, the mental models, the mistakes practitioners keep making, and how the mechanism shows up in real public affairs work today.
This show is for practitioners who want to work the fundamentals — one book at a time.
