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Bloggingheads.tv videos — November 2019
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Nov 30, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff
The Glenn Show
- Does the US tax system favor the rich?
- Why spending is more equally distributed than wealth
- How Larry makes his calculations
- How billionaires can avoid paying taxes
- Larry: We should tax consumption instead of income or wealth
- Larry critiques Andrew Yang’s universal basic income plan
- Should Trump get credit for a good economy?
Nov 27, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Previewing the Scher and Lewis Thanksgiving family fights
- The complicated method to watch Bill’s favorite Thanksgiving sitcom episode
- Matt’s case for dragging out impeachment
- Should Dems hold out for an impeachment bombshell to break?
- Why South Carolina may be the crucial primary state
- Bill: “The Bloomberg strategy is deeply flawed”
Nov 26, 2019 —
Gender and the Generations (Kat Rosenfield, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, and Meghan Daum)
Feminine Chaos
- Meghan’s new book, The Problem with Everything
- Are women less inclined to be heterodox thinkers?
- Generational differences between Gen Xers and Millennials
- How childhood became highly gendered
- The commercialization of feminism and the plight of men
- The non-universality of #MeToo stories
- Meghan responds to ageist criticism of her book
Nov 21, 2019 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt: Democrats have exceeded my expectations at the impeachment hearings
- Signs that Giuliani will be the fall guy
- In defense of boring hearings
- Why wasn’t the debate a Pete pile-on?
- Bill: Don’t sleep on Klobuchar
- Matt: Is this Dem field as good as it gets?
- Did Booker strike out for the final time?
- Yang vs. Gabbard in the battle for Matt’s heart
Nov 20, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- The many ways that Twitter is mismanaged
- Bob vs. Mickey on impeachment
- Is there any evidence of Biden’s guilt?
- Bob accuses Mickey of defending Trump’s Iran policy
- Mickey: “I’m not sure I want four more years of this”
- A thought experiment about bribery and sex
- Debating whether to identify the whistleblower
- What are the odds of conviction?
- Which Democrat should Trump most fear?
- Mickey floats the prison gang theory of Epstein’s death
Nov 19, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff
The Glenn Show
- Critiquing William Nordhaus’s work on the economics of climate change
- Larry: My plan for carbon taxation is a win-win
- Can elderly voters who don’t care about the future be won over?
- What about critics of capitalism itself?
- Accounting for the uncertainties of climate science
- The work of the 2019 Economics Nobel laureates
Nov 18, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Michael Powell
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Michael’s new book, Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
- Michael: “Rez ball” is defined by speed and fluid movement
- What life is like on the Navajo reservation
- The syncretism of traditional and Christian religion among the Navajo
- The waning of traditional Navajo culture and belief
- Why leaving the reservation can be so difficult
- What the basketball team means to the players and their families
- Has commercialization made sports better?
- The preposterous state of bigtime college sports
Nov 15, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Kaufman
Culturally Determined
- Explaining the wildly popular “ok boomer” meme
- Why Dan is both critical of and sympathetic toward “ok boomer”
- The Marxist critique of woke capitalism
- Twitter users offer bad life advice given by Boomers
- Do today’s young people have a chip on their shoulders?
- Dan: We’re still trying to develop a theoretical understanding of the Internet
- Why do college students seem to be more afraid of debate?
Nov 13, 2019 —
Glenn Loury & Steven Teles
The Glenn Show
- The Niskanen Center’s defense of a “free-market welfare state”
- Hidden ways the government obstructs the free market
- Why a wealth tax probably wouldn’t work
- Steve’s ambivalence about impeachment
- Glenn says the emoluments charges are “penny ante bullshit”
- Steve: Trumpism has to be defeated at the ballot box
- The vain search for the “generic Democrat”
- What happens to the NeverTrumpers post-Trump?
Nov 12, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Jack Goldsmith
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Jack’s discovery that his stepfather Chuckie was illegally surveilled by the feds
- J. Edgar Hoover and the origins of FBI surveillance
- Robert F. Kennedy’s war on Jimmy Hoffa
- Jack: Prosecutorial discretion is one of the government’s most dangerous powers
- Jack’s challenge to Bush’s post-9/11 surveillance program
- How Chuckie’s experience weighed on Jack’s conscience
- Did the Bush administration fan the flames of fear to accomplish its goals?
- Jack offers some praise and criticism for Edward Snowden
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