The Covered Call Podcast Podcast
Jul 30, 2026 · 2 hr 46 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney shares deep insights into China's political system, its historical evolution, and how it differs from Western models. We explore the core principles of…
Joseph Gregory MahoneyGuestLovisHostJasonHostUm, uh, the person I was dating at the time was, was living, uh, working for the governor in, in, in, uh, Maryland and Annapolis.
And she found a copy of, um, uh, the best biography of, of, um, uh, John Paul Jones at, uh, the Naval Academy books, uh, bookstore because he's a hero of the Naval Academy.
And I read that, that novel, uh, excuse me, that, that biography very carefully.
And, um, what, what really sort of captivated me was that he was the only really functional Naval captain captain during the revolution.
They were all, um, you know, these guys who were the nephews or uncles of members of the Continental Congress.
And John Paul Jones, you know, had gone out and he scored all these significant scores.
naval victories, not significant necessarily in turning the tide of the war, but certainly hugely important in morale building.
And he would then later go on, he became disillusioned with the US and went on to work in Europe and ultimately Catherine the Great.
And as I was observing sort of extreme corruption at that time in Washington, I realized that this problem had always been there from the beginning.
And that there had always been these incredible drags on the ability for people to actually do things that serve society in a way that I felt were necessary.
He was supposedly a hero of democracy, but then he went to work for Captain the Great, this terrible autocrat.
But then if you go back and you look at other major American heroes, and I know this is taking us off course, and I'm not sort of patting myself on the back, but a great number of American heroes ended up abandoning the U.S., Davy Crockett, the Austins.
A lot of people left Daniel Boone because they were disillusioned with what they saw as the way the institutional frameworks were not actually moving towards the goals that they had valorized, but were manifesting in darker ways.
So that's sort of a darker conversation, but nevertheless, that's sort of what was going through my mind.
Um, uh, the person I was dating at the time was, was living, uh, working for the governor in, in, in, uh, Maryland and Annapolis.
And she found a copy of, um, uh, the best biography of, of, um, uh, John Paul Jones at, uh, the Naval Academy books, uh, bookstore because he's a hero of the Naval Academy.
And I read that, that novel, uh, excuse me, that, that biography very carefully.
And, um, what, what really sort of captivated me was that he was the only really functional Naval captain captain during the revolution.
They were all, um, you know, these guys who were the nephews or uncles of members of the Continental Congress.
And John Paul Jones, you know, had gone out and he scored all these significant scores.
naval victories, not significant necessarily in turning the tide of the war, but certainly hugely important in morale building.
And he would then later go on, he became disillusioned with the US and went on to work in Europe and ultimately Catherine the Great.
And as I was observing sort of extreme corruption at that time in Washington, I realized that this problem had always been there from the beginning.
And that there had always been these incredible drags on the ability for people to actually do things that serve society in a way that I felt were necessary.
He was supposedly a hero of democracy, but then he went to work for Captain the Great, this terrible autocrat.
But then if you go back and you look at other major American heroes, and I know this is taking us off course, and I'm not sort of patting myself on the back, but a great number of American heroes ended up abandoning the U.S., Davy Crockett, the Austins.
A lot of people left Daniel Boone because they were disillusioned with what they saw as the way the institutional frameworks were not actually moving towards the goals that they had valorized, but were manifesting in darker ways.
So that's sort of a darker conversation, but nevertheless, that's sort of what was going through my mind.
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