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Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic, Meeting Triumph and Disaster) and Mark Oppenheimer (The New York Times, markoppenheimer.com)
Mark talks about his recent profile of Maggie Gallagher, a leading opponent of gay marriage. He and Conor agree that legal gay marriage is both inevitable and probably a good thing. They disagree about who truly speaks for Catholics. Conor calls for abandoning the norm that says “objective journalists” should hide their opinions, while Mark sees value in it. Is it always best to be charitable toward one’s ideological opponents? They conclude by debating whether homeschooling is bad for a liberal society.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Mark Oppenheimer
Mark’s profile of Maggie Gallagher
Mark’s profile of Ross Douthat
Mark’s profile of Dan Savage
Mark on a DC Opus Dei school
Gary Guttig on who speaks for Catholics
Mark on Rev. Roger Landry
Marc Tracey on Jodi Rudoren
Jon Chait on why he’s mean
Christopher Hitchens’s Harpers review of Norman Podhoretz’s “Unmaking Friends”
Dana Goldstein on homeschooling
Conor on homeschooling
Friedersdorf | Feb 21, 2012 | Conor Friedersdorf & Mark Oppenheimer
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The logic behind Trump’s tariffs
Karthik Sankaran and Connor Echols discuss how the administration’s new levies could reshape the global economy.
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Reid Hoffman’s p(bloom)
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and author of the new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future, offers an optimistic view of the coming AI earthquake.
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Varieties of Authoritarianism
Almut Rochowanski of the Quincy Institute and Robert Wright discuss how Trump’s second term compares to authoritarian and oligarchic regimes abroad—and how Americans should respond.
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Lessons from the Signal snafu
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Tesla, Tufts, and More Trump Chaos
Robert Wright and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss Trump’s Tesla-friendly tariff strategy, his Israel-friendly crackdown on free speech, Canada’s close election, and more.
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CIA vs JFK
JFK researcher Jefferson Morley and Robert Wright discuss the implications of newly released documents that bear on the Kennedy assassination.
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Will Trump get locked into war in Yemen?
Justin Logan of the Cato Institute and Connor Echols discuss the renewed campaign of airstrikes against the Houthis.
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Does God Exist?
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Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again?
Jeet Heer of The Nation and Robert Wright discuss the ideological roots of Trumpism, from William McKinley through Pat Buchanan and beyond.
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Another DeepSeek Moment?
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