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Bill Scher (Real Clear Politics, Politico) and Matt K. Lewis (The Daily Beast, MattLewis.org)
On The DMZ, Matt says that the Obamacare website failures give the GOP a chance to make a larger argument about big government. Bill and Matt take different sides in the debate between Joan Walsh and Ezra Klein over how liberal pundits should react to healthcare.gov’s glitches. Matt wants conservatives to realize that a Reagan-like savior will be not coming to rescue the movement. Will Republicans leave Reagan nostalgia behind in 2016? They ponder whether immigration reform is coming back from the dead. Plus: The meaning of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s embrace of Medicaid expansion.
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Matt K. Lewis
Bill’s piece, “5 other botched rollouts of government programs”
Patrick Ruffini on healthcare.gov
Joan Walsh’s piece, “Liberal pundit fail”
David Auerbach at Slate on coding
Brian Beutler’s reply to Walsh
Matt’s piece, “The second coming of Reagan isn’t going to save the GOP”
Peter Beinart on the political leanings of Millennials
Bill on immigration reform
Matt on the GOP losing young evangelicals
WSJ on the Southern Baptist Convention
Jill Lawrence on John Kasich
The DMZ | Oct 24, 2013 | Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
MeaningofLife.tv
Sympathy for Sandler
Daniel Kaufman and Milton Lawson discuss the immoral main character of Uncut Gems, played by Adam Sandler. (Contains spoilers.)
Play this clip on MeaningofLife.tvThe Wright Show
The truth about foreign policy “realism”
Robert Wright speaks with Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
Culturally Determined
“Conspiracies are logistically impossible”
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, who just completed his documentary This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory.
The DMZ
Is a contested convention looming?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss whether moderate Democrats will unite to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination.
MeaningofLife.tv
What explains the taboo against the academic study of UFOs?
Robert Wright speaks with political scientist Alexander Wendt, who recently delivered a TEDx talk titled “Wanted: A Science of UFOs.”
Play this clip on MeaningofLife.tvThe Glenn Show
Will Latinos become white?
And will blacks be left behind again? Glenn Loury speaks with Ernesto Cortés, Jr. and Peter Skerry.
MeaningofLife.tv
Revisiting Plato’s Ring of Gyges
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Spencer Case use the myth of a ring that grants invisibility to debate moral realism.
Play this clip on MeaningofLife.tvThe DMZ
How vulnerable are Democrats to Republican mischief?
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis survey GOP attempts to sow disunity in the Democratic primaries.
MeaningofLife.tv
Where Existentialists and Stoics agree
Robert Wright speaks with Skye Cleary and Massimo Pigliucci, co-editors of the new book How to Live a Good Life and proponents, respectively, of Existentialism and Stoicism.
Play this clip on MeaningofLife.tvCulturally Determined
Remembering Tim Allen’s “masculinism”
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