25 April 2019
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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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Bill Scher
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
The Glenn Show
We didn’t start the flame war
Glenn Loury speaks with John Wood, Jr., media director of the bipartisan dialogue group Better Angels, about the history of polarized politics in the United States.
MeaningofLife.tv
The domestication of the human species
Primatologist Richard Wrangham, author of the new book The Goodness Paradox, discusses how our ancestors dealt with violent males—and made our species gentler.
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How to survive cancellation
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Phoebe Maltz Bovy consider how much power “cancellation culture” really has.
The Glenn Show
A history of black poverty
In a panel discussion at Harvard with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter explains what led to endemic black poverty in America.
MeaningofLife.tv
Beauty and the divine
Robert Wright and theologian John Thatamanil discuss the role of beauty in the “process theology” of Alfred North Whitehead.
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Historians Bill Black and Varsha Venkatasubramanian discuss Varsha’s encounters with Hindu nationalists in the Bay Area dating scene.
Feminine Chaos
The case against “sensitivity readers”
Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy critique the new publishing industry practice of reviewing manuscripts for potentially offensive content.
MeaningofLife.tv
Is three a crowd?
Robert Wright speaks with evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller about the logic and benefits of polyamorous relationships.
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Is Game of Thrones the last of its kind?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Michael Sweeney consider whether there will ever be another show with such cultural resonance.
MeaningofLife.tv
Fingernail clippings and other problems with bodily resurrection
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