26 June 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
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That “analytic swing”
Josh Summers speaks with jazz pianist Aaron Goldberg about his time working as a full-time musician while studying in a philosophy graduate program under Daniel Dennett.
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How Clarence Thomas views race
Glenn Loury speaks with legal historian Scott Gerber, author of the book First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.
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Embrace the strange
Jeffrey Kripal, author of the new book The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, argues that strict materialism does more to encourage religious fundamentalism than to stem it.
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A thought experiment about free will and moral responsibility
Philosopher Gideon Rosen considers an ancient slaveholder who has no idea that slavery is wrong.
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Sorry, not sorry
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Joe Biden and the emerging political advantage in refusing to apologize after gaffes or personal misconduct.
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Mourning on Twitter
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Rachel Vorona-Cote, who recently wrote about grieving her mother’s death in the essay “The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning.”
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The “black silent majority”
Michael Fortner describes his book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, about support for draconian drug laws in the black community in the 1970s.
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Were people really less sensitive in the past?
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Robert Gressis discuss.
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Anti-interventionism isn’t isolationism
Chris Preble, author of the new book Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy, explains why his libertarian skepticism about military intervention isn’t the same as isolationism.
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Envisioning a post-Trump foreign policy
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