20 June 2019
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Jun 19, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Michael Fortner
The Glenn Show
- Michael’s book on the Rockefeller drug laws, Black Silent Majority
- Critiquing Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow
- Adding a class critique to the discussion of race and crime
- Why Michael is torn over “respectability politics”
- Michael: People on both sides of the debate need to take poor black folk seriously
- Could black churches team up with Black Lives Matter?
- Could the black community ever work with Trump?
Jun 17, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Christopher Preble
The Wright Show
- Chris’s new book, Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
- Are libertarians, generally speaking, anti-war?
- Chris: The U.S. is powerful because people want to emulate us
- Libertarianism and international law
- Why has Congress let presidents usurp its war powers?
- The sorrows and joys of international weapons inspection treaties
- Why libertarian foreign policy is conducive to American security
- Does America have an imperialist foreign policy?
Jun 15, 2019 —
Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner
Drezburt
- Who tried to kill Big Papi?
- Who attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman?
- Is Shinzo Abe Trump’s friend or supplicant?
- Gauging the odds of war with Iran
- Heather: Trump’s actions mean the US can never rejoin the nuclear deal
- The ever-growing costs of maintaining American hegemony
- Trump as God’s gift to neoliberalism
- Dan has some kind words for Elizabeth Warren
Jun 14, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Negar Mortazavi
The Wright Show
- The Trump administration’s “Iran Disinformation Project,” which Negar helped expose
- Following the State Department money
- Will Congress cancel funding for the project?
- Heshmat Alavi, the Iran expert who turns out not to exist
- How is Trump viewed in Iran?
- Negar: Sanctions, though painful, won’t bring the Iranian regime down
- Could Trump cut a new nuclear deal?
Jun 13, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Why Matt is on the Justin Amash train
- What would it take for Matt to vote for Biden (or any Democrat) in 2020?
- Bill: If Biden wins, he won’t be captive to the far left
- How to stand out on a crowded debate stage
- Bill: “Cult favorite” candidates have an advantage over credentialed politicians this time
Jun 12, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Chris Arnade
Culturally Determined
- Chris’s new book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Why politics and Trump are mostly absent from the book
- McDonald’s, the community center for people on the margins
- Successful immigrant communities like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine
- “This is my home” and forms of meaning you can’t measure
- Why dignity is the book’s central theme
- Chris’s thoughts on universal basic income
- Why GOP Sen. Tom Cotton blurbed the book
Jun 10, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman
The Wright Show
- Oliver’s recent essay in the Guardian, “How the news took over reality”
- The vanished distinction between private and public spheres
- Oliver: Maybe our problem is too much participation in democracy
- Bob on the halcyon early days at Slate, when writers didn’t know their traffic stats
- Oliver: We’ve put the fear in our pockets
- Is it possible to be enlightened on Twitter?
- Tending our community gardens
Jun 7, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Darrell West
The Glenn Show
- Darrell’s new book, Divided Politics, Divided Nation
- Why is racial demographic change so important to conservatives?
- How Darrell’s conservative Christian family exemplifies the ideological divide
- Identity politics on the Brown University campus
- Darrell: The push to impeach Trump is misguided
- Darrell’s challenge: Take a conservative (or a liberal) to lunch
Jun 6, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Gabriel Wildau
The Wright Show
- Gabe, just returned from a stint in China, on the controversial tech giant Huawei
- Is the battle over Huawei in fact just about curbing China’s power?
- The “did we get China wrong?” debate
- Gabe (kind of) defends Trump’s tariff policy
- Thirty years after Tiananmen Square, is political reform dead?
- What outsiders don’t understand about the oppression of the Uighurs
Jun 5, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Why shoe-leather reporting is really hard
- Why is the right debating “David Frenchism”?
- Who’s really winning the culture war?
- How Biden’s climate plan could win over the left
- Bill: Conservatives have been engaging in “cancel culture” since the Bush years
- Matt: What was wrong with the “binders full of women” comment, anyway?
Jun 4, 2019 —
Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Feminine Chaos
- Moby’s Natalie Portman misstep and “May-December” relationships
- How old is too old to infantilize yourself?
- Kat: Incels aren’t a feminist issue; they hate themselves too
- Phoebe: Teenage heartbreak isn’t as gendered as one would think
- Strong recommends and non-recommends from Feminine Chaos
- Interrogating Budweiser’s celebration of Gray Asexual Pride
Jun 4, 2019 —
Robert Wright & David Kaye
The Wright Show
- David’s new book, Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
- Did social media companies treat Alex Jones unfairly?
- Why online censorship is much easier than it was 15 years ago
- Bob proposes a “free market of algorithms”
- Why the Global South loses out
- How Facebook helped Trump’s anti-Iran policy
- David: American sensibilities shouldn’t dominate online moderation
- The Chinese government’s mastery of online control
- International human rights law as a guiding light
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