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Bloggingheads.tv videos — February 2020
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Feb 28, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Ian Rowe
The Glenn Show
- Ian describes the charter school network he runs
- How teachers are treated in charters vs. in public schools
- Ian rebuts the charge that charters cherrypick their students
- Why Ian’s schools are all single-sex
- The political campaign against charters
- Ian’s critique of using the 1619 Project as curriculum
- The “Who’s your daddy?” truck in the Bronx
- Is the racial achievement gap the wrong problem to focus on?
Feb 26, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt and Bill disagree about last night’s debate
- Bill does the delegate map math
- Bill: Bernie is winning the primary but not the argument
- Matt worries about Trump as a template for a future authoritarian
- Possible Bernie VP picks
- Why won’t Bernie throw Fidel Castro under the bus?
- The under-40 vs. over-40 Bernie divide
- Bill tries to convince Matt to vote in the Virginia Democratic primary
Feb 25, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote
Culturally Determined
- Rachel’s new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
- Rachel on writing very frankly about her personal life
- The origin and definition of “too much”
- Is the book a defense of too muchness?
- Should women be treated more like men? Men more like women? Neither?
- Embracing your emotions vs. detaching yourself from them
- Trump as the epitome of “too much”
- The constraints binding female politicians
Feb 21, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Aaron Maté
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Did the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons suppress evidence that an infamous attack in Syria didn’t actually happen?
- Evidence from OPCW whistleblowers
- Evidence that the scene of the attack was staged
- Why reporters aren’t incentivized to investigate this story
- What happened at the hospital?
- OPCW’s side of the story
- Why Bob is agnostic about whether the Douma attack was real or faked
- Bob: A large news organization needs to investigate this story
Feb 20, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- How effective are Bloomberg’s many, many ads?
- Matt isn’t convinced that Bloomberg’s debate performance will sink him
- Does Biden still have a chance?
- Warren’s argument: I’ll savage Trump like I savaged Bloomberg
- Matt thinks Klobuchar would match up well against Trump
- Will Nevada be another caucus clusterf*ck?
- Why the next 10 days may decide the race
Feb 19, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Rajiv Sethi
The Glenn Show
- Glenn’s landmark 1977 paper, “A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences”
- Glenn’s theory of “relations before transactions”
- Critics accused Glenn of “flirting with the idea of black inferiority”
- What William F. Buckley said that broke Glenn’s heart
- Why do Maine and Vermont let prisoners vote, when most states don’t?
- Glenn vows to finish his memoir this summer
- The roles that two black academics played in Glenn’s early career
Feb 14, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Andrew Bacevich
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Andrew’s new book, The Age of Illusions
- Andrew’s ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR
- Defining foreign policy “realism”
- How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus
- Will international law ever command wide respect?
- 1992 as a harbinger of 2016
- The political logic behind America’s endless drone war
- Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end
- How Andrew’s service in Vietnam shaped his worldview
Feb 13, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kirby Ferguson
Culturally Determined
- Why it took eight years for Kirby to finish This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory
- Kirby: “Conspiracies are logistically impossible”
- Bernie fans get conspiratorial after the botched Iowa caucuses
- Donald Trump, the Conspiracist-in-Chief
- QAnon and conspiracism as lifestyle
- Will Epstein’s death be the JFK assassination of our era?
- What should you do if a loved one is falling into conspiracy theories?
Feb 12, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Is Bernie the frontrunner? Co-frontrunner?
- The insider/outsider split in the moderate lane
- Parallels between the 2020 Dem primary and the 2016 GOP primary
- Inching toward a contested convention
- Previewing the Nevada caucuses
- Will the moderates unite to try to stop Sanders?
- Can Bloomberg buy the election?
- Matt fears that Trump is bulletproof
Feb 11, 2020 —
Immigration and Race (Glenn Loury, Ernesto Cortés, Jr., & Peter Skerry)
The Glenn Show
- Do blacks and Latinos have aligning interests?
- Ernesto: Immigrants have an irrational belief in the American dream
- Debating the benefits of immigration
- Can universal health care and open immigration be reconciled?
- Why Peter called Mexicans the “ambivalent minority”
- Will Latinos socially assimilate? Will blacks be left behind again?
- Revisiting Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
- Ernesto: Most Latinos just want to work
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