6 December 2023
Mark Kleiman (The Reality-Based Community, NYU, When Brute Force Fails) and Will Wilkinson (Model Citizen)
- Applying rigorous logic to the Winter Olympics . 00:15
- Mark: Inaction on climate change is crazy risky . 07:04
- Will doesn’t know who to trust in the climate debate . 20:28
- GPS tracking as a substitute for imprisonment . 36:10
- How did so many Americans come to be pro-torture? . 42:53
- Will questions “support the troops” . 53:17
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Recorded:Feb 23
Posted:Feb 25, 2010
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