22 February 2019
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Diversity, but on whose terms?
Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy discuss the latest controversy in the world of Young Adult literature.
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In this video:
- Phoebe returns to talk “cancellation culture”
- Kat explains the latest controversy in Young Adult literature
- Why is YA culture so toxic?
- International offenses and US-centric values in YA
- Who gets the benefit of the doubt in accusations of racism or sexism?
- The knitter who cancelled herself
- Is social justice dogpiling exclusive to women’s online communities?
- Kat and Phoebe’s special feature, “Brief Denunciations”
Moving on from the minstrel show
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss whether blackface should be forbidden.
What’s the big emergency?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the potential effects of Trump’s national emergency order.
Trump’s Trojan horse
Journalist Max Blumenthal, reporting from Caracas, explains why Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro refused to accept a US aid shipment.
Can we take race out of the criminal justice equation?
Glenn Loury speaks with Kelly Suzanne Saulsberry of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
American hypocrisy
How important is moral consistency in foreign policy? Robert Wright and Heather Hurlburt consider.
How Facebook manipulates us
Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Team Human, explains.
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A parable about talent
Juliet Lapidos describes the origins of her new novel, Talent, which uses the biblical Parable of the Talents as a frame for a literary detective story.
The power of fictional thinking
Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel discuss the essential role of narrative in art, literature, and human life.
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Why Bernie is “scary”
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis compare Bernie Sanders’s appeal to Donald Trump’s appeal in the 2016 GOP primary.
Toward a new center-right
Joshua Cohen speaks with Brink Lindsey, co-author of the new report “The Center Can Hold.”
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What is truth, anyway?
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Crispin Sartwell discuss the “true” meaning of truth according to different branches of philosophy.
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Madame Bovary, Gone Girl, and the likeability backlash
Kat Rosenfield and Hillary Kelly discuss the representation of “terrible women” in literature.
The DMZ
Who survives a public scandal?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s political fate in an era of rapid online news.
The Wright Show
The hidden variable beneath America’s political divide
