Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSchool’s out for Covid
Episode 438
Jane, Dara, and Matt on the school reopening debate and the political consequences of HIV/AIDS.
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"The debate over reopening America’s K-12 sc…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Covid resurgence
Episode 437
Ezra and Matt on how America failed while the world made progress on the pandemic, and what on earth is going on with the republican party.
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5 years, 11 months ago
Contagious enthusiasm
Episode 436
Dara, Jane, and Matt on Biden’s excitement gap.
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"So … About That Supposed Lack Of Enthusiasm For Biden?" Five Thirty Eight
"Social conservati…
5 years, 11 months ago
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect
Episode 435
Land of the Giants is a podcast from our friends at Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network that examines the most powerful tech companies of our ti…
5 years, 11 months ago
The war on bad statues
Episode 434
Jane, Dara, and Matt on Confederate Memorials, Woodrow Wilson, and the battle for historical memory.
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"Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — …
5 years, 11 months ago
The Veepstakes
Episode 433
Ezra and Matt on Warren, Abrams, Harris, and the Tammies and the links between racial and economic justice.
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"The Second Defeat of Bernie San…
5 years, 11 months ago
Talking about talking
Episode 432
Jane, Dara, and Matt explain “intersectional,” “structural” and the new language of identity discourse.
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"The intersectionality wars" by Jane…
6 years ago
The legal doctrine that protects brutal policing
Episode 431
Cato's Clark Neily joins Jane to discuss Qualified Immunity - where is came from, why it exists, and what's being done to eliminate it. Clark details…
6 years ago
Fixing the police
Episode 430
Jane, Dara, and Matt on what we know about police reform and its limits
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"Unbundle the Police" by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
"Why Are the Po…
6 years ago
America gives up on Covid-19
Episode 429
Ezra and Matt on the return of a virus that never went away.
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"America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic" by Alexis C. Madrigal & Robinson Meyer, …
6 years ago