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  • Vance Impersonates a Decent Guy

    Vance Impersonates a Decent Guy
    2024/10/03
    The Financial Times's Ed Luce joins to discuss the VP debate, the future of MAGA, and the Israel/Iran war.
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    56 分
  • The Gender Chasm

    The Gender Chasm
    2024/09/27
    Mona’s highlight: The impartiality of the DOJ, indicting members of the sitting party in power when they commit crimes.

    Tim’s lowlight: The failure to have more than one debate.

    Tim’s highlight: The young, hungry, improbable turnaround of the Detroit Tigers.

    Sonny’s highlight / lowlight: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.

    Sam’s highlight: Ohtani’s historic 50-50 season.

    Sam’s lowlight: The indictment of Eric Adams.

    Bill’s highlight: VP Harris’s economic speech on building and permitting overhaul.
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    1 時間 9 分
  • Does Trump's Tough Guy Persona Really Work in World Affairs?

    Does Trump's Tough Guy Persona Really Work in World Affairs?
    2024/09/20
    AEI's Kori Schake joins the group to discuss Trump's "crazy guy" strategy, the 111 GOP leaders endorsing Harris, and Hezbollah's exploding pagers.

    Show Notes:

    Referenced: U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches, by Walter Russell Mead (WSJ)

    Highlights / Lowlights

    Kori: Gov. Mike DeWine defending Ohio against MAGA’s lies about Springfield (ABC)

    Damon: The tired dance of the demagogue by Matthew Yglesias (Slow Boring)

    Mona: How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind (Popular Science)

    Linda: The Exotic Cat-Eaters of Springfield, Ohio by Kevin Williamson (The Dispatch)

    Bill: The Future of Free Speech by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey Richard Stone (Dædalus)
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    55 分
  • The MAGA Bubble Burst

    The MAGA Bubble Burst
    2024/09/13
    Third Way's Matt Bennett joins to discuss the debate, Harris's centrism, and which candidate would be better on inflation.

    Highlights / Lowlights

    Mona: Why Mike Lee Folded by Tim Alberta, The Atlantic.

    Matt: The lies being pushed about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, and the political opportunism of a young boy’s death.

    Damon: Behind the Catholic Right's celebrity-conversion industrial complex (Vanity Fair)

    Linda: What led to rumors Trump shared about Venezuelan gangs taking over a Colorado building? (NBC)

    Bill: Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Tucker Carlson: Anchor on Trump/Vance?

    Tucker Carlson: Anchor on Trump/Vance?
    2024/09/06
    Lawyer Kim Wehle discusses her book on the pardon power. The group then delves into Israel/Gaza, campus protests redux, and Tucker Carlson "Just asking questions" about Holocaust denialism.

    Highlights / Lowlights

    Mona: Andrew Egger's "Pennsylvania Man Speaks" reporting.
    Bill: The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America
    Linda: Republicans Seize on False Theories About Immigrant Voting (NYT)
    Damon: DOJ alleges Russia funded US media company linked to right-wing social media stars (CNN)
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    1 時間 25 分
  • The New Kamala Harris

    The New Kamala Harris
    2024/08/29
    The Atlantic's Peter Wehner joins the group to discuss the DNC and Harris's new tone, Trump's pivot on abortion, and the misfit toys (RFK Jr., Gabbard) of the Trump campaign.

    Highlights / Lowlights:

    Mona: Can We Be a Little Less Selective With Our Moral Outrage? by Bret Stephens in The New York Times.

    Peter: Lowlight: Trump Insists He Won California in Wild, Jesus-Filled Rant With Dr. Phil (Daily Beast)

    Damon: Highlight: Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett

    Bill: Highlights: The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft by Walter Russell Mead and Stopping the Next China Shock by Aaron L. Friedberg

    Linda: Highlight: Making Race Skin Deep by Quico Toro in Persuasion
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    1 時間 9 分
  • How Far Can the Vibes Carry Kamala?

    How Far Can the Vibes Carry Kamala?
    2024/08/23
    Andrew Egger subs for the vacationing Mona, and A.B. occupies Damon's seat, as The Deseret News's Samuel Benson joins regulars Bill and Linda to discuss the unity and vibes at the Democratic Convention, while the panel weighs how RFK's exit from the race is likely to affect the November election.

    Highlights / Lowlights

    Andrew: Highlight: Gov. Tim Walz's Speech, and his family's reaction.

    A.B.: Highlight: Doug Emhoff's remarks on anti-semitism, and that protests did not disrupt the convention.

    Linda: Lowlight: Systemic Test Racism in Chicago (WSJ)

    Bill: The slow counting of ballots in Pennsylvania, and the failure to fix this glaringly obvious problem.

    Samuel: Lowlight: The slowness with which anti-semitism was addressed at the Democratic Convention.

    Highlight: A moment of prayer he witnessed by Jewish men at night outside of the convention hall.
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    1 時間 8 分
  • "Rational Exuberance"

    "Rational Exuberance"
    2024/08/16
    MSNBC's Charlie Sykes joins the panel to discuss the rise of Harris, the decline of Trump (in more ways than one?), and the Iranian hack of Trump's campaign.

    Highlights / Lowlights

    • Charlie:
      • Highlight: 2 outspoken election deniers lose GOP primaries for state Legislature
      • Lowlight: The ongoing stolen valor attacks on Gov. Walz
    • Mona:
      • Lowlight: How Trump's infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign (Judd Legum and Noel Sims)
    • Damon:
      • Highlight: Ukraine’s Push Into Russia Met Early Success. Where Does It Go From Here?
    • Bill:
      • Lowlights: The Swiftboating of Tim Walz
      • Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza
    • Linda:
      • Lowlight: Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting (Eli Lake, The FP)

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    1 時間 14 分