28 June 2017
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Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic, Meeting Triumph and Disaster) and Phoebe Maltz Bovy (The Perils of "Privilege", What Would Phoebe Do?, The New Republic)
On Friedersdorf, Conor and Phoebe discuss the plague of parental oversharing. What kind of privacy is owed to celebrities like Justin Bieber? Phoebe describes traveling to Japan, where it was impossible for her to “pass” as a native. Moving to the Isla Vista shooting, Conor argues that the media should deny notoriety to mass shooters. Phoebe complicates the narrative around #YesAllWomen, and wonders whether “rape culture” is a useful term. Conor and Phoebe critique the idea of “checking your privilege”—is this just a way for insanely privileged people to nitpick each others’ lives? Plus: Why Conor is accused of privilege when he criticizes drone warfare.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Molly Ringwald’s story on This American Life
Phoebe on parental oversharing
AP story on Justin Bieber’s racial slur video
WaPo posts video of Obama exercising
Phoebe’s posts on travelling in Japan
Conor on preventing mass killers from becoming famous
Conor on #YesAllWomen
Phoebe on the Isla Vista killer
Phoebe on women who are refused
Nerve.com piece, “Confessions of an Awkward Teen Girl”
Phoebe on checking your privilege
Miss Self-Important on privilege
Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” (PDF)
Jamelle Bouie on privilege
Conor on privilege at Harvard’s Kennedy School
Friedersdorf | Jun 9, 2014 | Conor Friedersdorf & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
MeaningofLife.tv
Selflessness through selflessness
Philosopher Jay Garfield, author of Engaging Buddhism, explains why Buddhists think the “self” is an illusion that leads to bad behavior.
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The art of letting go
Sharon Salzberg, author of the new book Real Love, on what Buddhists mean when they warn against emotional attachments. Plus: What’s harder: Loving yourself or loving your enemy?
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The origin of suffering
Linda Blanchard, author of Dependent Arising in Context, explains a central Buddhist teaching. Plus: What do feelings do?
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The siren song of anti-anti-Trumpism
Matt Lewis says the desire to oppose liberals is leading conservatives down a path of intellectual corruption. Plus: Does Karen Handel’s win mask a threat to GOP dominance?
MeaningofLife.tv
Loving a country that doesn’t love you back
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, on America’s struggle to build a diverse society.
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The future of European defense
Heather Hurlburt and Daniel Drezner discuss how Trump could inspire Europe to take its defense into its own hands. Plus: Has the populist wave crested?
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Humor in the age of Trump
Comedy writer Owen Ellickson on why it’s hard to make good jokes at the president’s expense.
Foreign Entanglements
Connecting dots across the pond
Political scientists Robert Farley and David Brockington discuss whether it makes sense to compare election trends across the UK, France, and the US. Plus: Jeremy Corbyn as a case for compromise.
MeaningofLife.tv
TV that Americans used to share
Daniel Kaufman and David Ottlinger lament the social and political implications of television fragmentation.
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The ones who can’t get out
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