28 October 2020
“Immigration is very underrated”
Matthew Yglesias, author of the new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, makes the case.
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- Matt’s new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
- Matt: “Immigration is very underrated”
- Bob: What about the political backlash against low-skilled immigration?
- Why people have fewer kids than they want
- Matt: Climate change isn’t a good reason not to have children
- Is international cooperation on climate change possible?
- Did we make a big mistake on China and information technology?
- The case for solidaristic American patriotism
Parsing the Hunter Biden emails
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss alleged Biden family misdeeds.
Why the “long tail” thesis was wrong
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with William Deresiewicz, author of the new book The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.
The two Joe Bidens
Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the competing moderate and left-wing influences on a Biden presidency.
Is socialism compatible with identity politics?
Robert Wright speaks with John Judis, author of the new book, The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now About the Left.
Sister Swamp-jah
Should Biden denounce “the swamp”? Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus consider.
Does capitalism reinforce racial inequality?
Glenn Loury and Adaner Usmani debate the question.
Is Trump using steroids as a performance enhancing drug?
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus examine the evidence.
Will Trump actually not show up to the next debate?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis consider Trump’s threat to not attend the virtual presidential debate.
The Glenn Show
“Optics equality”
Glenn Loury, in conversation with Carlos Carvalho and Richard Lowery of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, discusses equality and group differences.
Culturally Determined
Trump the insult comic
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Dan Brooks, who wrote a recent New York Times Magazine story on Trump and political comedy.
The Glenn Show
Ice Cube’s October surprise
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss rapper Ice Cube’s influence on Trump’s plan for Black America.
The DMZ
Overturning precedent
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis debate how Amy Coney Barrett presented her jurisprudence at the confirmation hearings.
MeaningofLife.tv
The tradition of liberal Protestantism
Robert Wright speaks with Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, author of the new book Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity.
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