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Bloggingheads.tv videos — April 2020
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Apr 30, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Comparing the Biden allegations to the Kavanaugh and Franken allegations
- A collision of principles
- If Biden withdraws, what happens next?
- Bill: Don’t malign the character of accusers
- What’s the best PR strategy for Biden?
- Matt endorses Rep. Justin Amash for president (and loses Twitter followers)
- Will Amash matter?
- The Costanza/Trump motto: “It’s not a lie if you believe it”
Apr 30, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Josiah Rich
The Glenn Show
- Jody describes what it’s like inside his hospital
- How an outbreak in a prison could overwhelm the local hospital system
- Jody: “Most people don’t need to be locked up, and don’t need to be locked up for that long”
- What about all the murderers and rapists?
- Why Jody is not a prison abolitionist
- How Covid kills
Apr 29, 2020 —
Robert J. Shapiro & Elaine Kamarck
- Robert praises Korea’s and Germany’s handling of the pandemic
- Why has testing been so slow in the US?
- Elaine on Trump’s weirdness, inexperience, and denial
- Robert: Even before the pandemic, the economic expansion was aging out
- Fears of a U- or L-shaped recovery
- Optimism about the production of Covid treatments
Apr 28, 2020 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Daniel Bessner
Culturally Determined
- Why did Bernie lose to Biden?
- When “common sense” is an ideology
- Daniel sees Bernie as the Barry Goldwater of democratic socialism
- Would a Biden administration do anything for people under 40?
- Aryeh charts his ideological path since 2008
- Daniel: Republicans are better at politics because they understand what politics is
- The Spanish Flu in historical context
Apr 27, 2020 —
The Policy Response to the Pandemic (Glenn Loury, Harold Pollack, & Steven Teles)
The Glenn Show
- How would the late Mark Kleiman have viewed the policy response to the pandemic?
- The democratic legitimacy of the administrative state
- Glenn: Policy experts can’t determine human values
- Are the economic tradeoffs of shutdown too great?
- Harold: The costs of Covid are vivid in people’s lives
- Did Trump unintentionally help tamp down civil unrest?
Apr 24, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Disinfectants, ultraviolet light, and Trump’s brain
- What was America’s crucial corona mistake?
- Are we headed for phased-in herd immunity?
- Skepticism about contact tracing
- Does climate make some regions Covid-resistant?
- Mickey: Trump’s immigration order “in a tiny way achieved the ancient dream”
- Has Biden’s (alleged) cognitive decline plateaued?
- Bob defends economic engagement with China
- Migrants, pandemics, and racism
Apr 23, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Kids, summer camp, and fears of reopening
- Matt: It’s the government’s responsibility to protect stupid people
- Bill: Trump is always focused on today
- The case against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as Biden’s VP
- The VP strengths and weaknesses of Klobuchar and Kamala
- How to join Bill and Matt’s Zoom chats with fans
- Will Justin Amash run for president as a Libertarian? And will Matt vote for him?
Apr 22, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Richard Vague
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- What most worries Richard about the economy
- Assessing the Fed’s and Congress’s economic interventions
- Why China is doing relatively well economically
- Richard: Conventional wisdom on debt and interest rates is wrong
- How much government spending is too much?
- Is a private debt crisis looming?
- Can the government create money without creating debt?
- Richard: Deflation is now a much bigger concern than inflation
Apr 21, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Robert L. Woodson, Sr.
The Glenn Show
- How Bob joined and eventually split with the civil rights movement
- Critiquing the government bureaucracy of the American welfare state
- Bob: Affirmative action has been exploited by middle-class blacks
- Black achievement during the century after the Civil War
- Glenn asks, “what is to be done?”
- Bob: “I don’t have any choice but to be optimistic”
- Glenn: “Black people ought not to be taught to hate our country”
Apr 17, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Will Fauci be Trump’s next scapegoat?
- Mickey: The White House’s guidelines for reopening are “insane”
- Does Trump grasp the nature of the challenge?
- The future of podcasts and what really killed blogs
- Debating whether “diversity” encourages coronavirus
- Bob accuses Mickey of spreading a racist anti-Chinese rumor
- The real villains—the cosmopolitan elites!
- Should we believe the WHO? Should we believe China?
- If Biden wins, who will actually run the government?
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