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"The Sixties Never Ended"—Fred Siegel Reflects on Our Mob Rule Moment
Episode 191
When our cities start to come apart and people say it seems like 1968 all over again, that can only mean one thing: time to get in touch with Fred Si…
5 years, 7 months ago
Riots, Viruses, "Epistocracy," and Other Social Diseases
Episode 190
Funny how the COVID-19 crisis has nearly disappeared from the news, after having been the subject of wall-to-wall media attention for three months. R…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ross Douthat on "The Decadent Society"
Episode 189
“Decadence” is one of those familiar terms that is trivialized or rendered comic by overuse—perhaps you’d say from decadence itself. And while most p…
5 years, 7 months ago
"This Cannot Go On"—The Breakdown of Higher Education, with John Ellis
Episode 188
John Ellis John M. Ellis, distinguished professor emeritus of German literature at UC Santa Cruz, is out with a terrific new book, The Breakdown of H…
5 years, 7 months ago
Freedom of the Press in an Era of Fake News, with Zach Wood
Episode 187
Zachary Wood This episode flips the format, with my guest interviewing me for a change. Zachary Wood is a graduate of Williams College, where he was …
5 years, 7 months ago
Trumping Obama's Legacy, with Charles Lipson
Episode 186
Barack who? Is it just me, or is Obama the incredibly shrinking president, destined already to be remembered in the same league as John Tyler or Warr…
5 years, 8 months ago
Breaking: Facebook's "Supreme Court"? (With a Side of the Flynn Case)
Episode 185
Michael McConnell John Hinderaker joined me today to co-host this special edition of the show. Yesterday Facebook announced the creation of a 20-memb…
5 years, 8 months ago
The 1619 Project Pulitzer and Other Outrages: A Phil Magness Omnibus
Episode 184
Phil Magness When the news broke yesterday that the New York Times‘s egregious “1619 Project” had won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, I knew the onl…
5 years, 8 months ago
Do Lockdowns Save Lives? The Data Say No
Episode 183
Joe Malchow The Wall Street Journal this morning includes an article from T.J. Rodgers, the retired founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductors, with t…
5 years, 8 months ago
Earth Day at 50, with Terry Anderson
Episode 182
Terry Anderson It’s Earth Day today—and not just any old Earth Day, but the 50th anniversary. It’s passing rather more quietly than in many previous …
5 years, 8 months ago