Your Qs: Election Strategy, The Greens, Indy Convention
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Explore "policy-making" with insightful episodes like "Your Qs: Election Strategy, The Greens, Indy Convention", "#154 Stanford Prism Experiment (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)", "The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)", "The Elephant in the Meditation Room | Christopher Ford" and "What’s Happening to Our Economy Is Like a Natural Disaster" from podcasts like ""Holyrood Sources", "DarkHorse Podcast", "Freakonomics Radio", "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris" and "The Ezra Klein Show"" and more!
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In this 154th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
This week, we discuss the new Newspeak, as promoted by Stanford and its list of very bad words. While recognizing that, in a few rare cases, they have a point, overall this list and its enforcers are batshit crazy. And what it leads to is worse: we discuss title IX compliance officers, the dude who thinks it’s fine to hang out in women’s spas and other spaces, and the savage woman-hating multiple murderer who is likely to end up in a women’s prison. None of this is okay.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The new Newspeak, by Heather: https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/the-new-newspeak
The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words, in the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptable-words-elimination-of-harmful-language-initiative-11671489552
Trans glossary from the University of Oregon: https://hr.uoregon.edu/trans-glossary-101
Transgender Fugitive Who Spurred Wi Spa Riots Bares All, by Jeremy Lee Quinn: https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-transgender-fugitive-who-spurred-wi-spa-riots-bares-all/
The Personal Responsibility Vortex, Bret’s TedX talk from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNRtrZjkfE
Rabbitholed #78: Dana Rivers Is the Story the Media Doesn't Want You to Read, by Mandy Stadtmiller: https://mandystadtmiller.substack.com/p/rabbitholed-78-dana-rivers-is-the
Support the showWe often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America?
Today’s episode is the culmination of a long search to find a countervailing force: a Buddhist Trump supporter. This search was born out of the Buddhist impulse to find the other side. What is talked about as cultivating non-attachment to views and also called “beginner’s mind.” As you will hear, after a lot of searching, we finally found our person. Christopher Ford is a longtime Republican who worked for Trump (albeit indirectly) at the State Department. Ford wrote a pair of fascinating and provocative articles for the Buddhist magazine Lion’s Roar. One was entitled, Zen and the Moral Courage of Moderation. The other was called, The Elephant in the Meditation Room.
Christopher Ford is a lay chaplain in the Soto tradition of Zen Buddhism. His teacher is Roshi Joan Halifax, who has been on this show a couple of times and is herself a longtime progressive. From January 2018 until January 2021,he served at the state dept as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. He’s also worked at the National Security Council, and as a congressional staffer.
This episode explores:
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/christopher-ford-420
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The Biden administration’s first legislative priority is a $1.9 trillion economic rescue package. It’s the kind of mega-package where the individual policies contained inside it — a $15 minimum wage, $1,400 checks, a huge child tax credit expansion, a $50 billion virus testing infrastructure — would be big deals on their own. But together, this would be one of the most consequential packages ever passed.
So there’s a lot to talk about here. And who better to talk about it with than my now-colleague Paul Krugman? We dig into the details of the plan and then spiral off into some other topics I wanted to run by the nearest Nobel laureate: the major rethinking of debt and deficits among left-of-center economists, the differences between Keynesians and Modern Monetary Theorists, how Krugman made a bunch of money off Bitcoin (it’s not how you’d think!), why progressives need a better theory of technological change, Krugman’s favorite indie bands of the mid-2000s, and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
“Notes on the Coronacoma (Wonkish)” by Paul Krugman
“Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery” by Neil Irwin and Weiyi Cai
“Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?” By Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
“Public Debt: Fiscal and Welfare Costs in a Time of Low Interest Rates” by Olivier Blanchard
“America’s anti-democratic Senate, in one number” by Ian Millhiser
Book Recommendations:
“Laundry Files” series by Charlie Stross
“Merchant Princes” series by Charlie Stross
“The Price of Peace” by Zachary Carter
Band Recommendations:
The Be Good Tanyas
Larkin Poe
Reina del Cid
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Tomi Lahren insists that conservatives need to let go of the pro-life cause and stop trying to overturn Roe. She's wrong. Any so-called conservative who adopts the Left's position on abortion is wrong. And they aren't actually conservative in any meaningful way.
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Just a few decades ago, more than 90 percent of 30-year-olds earned more than their parents had earned at the same age. Now it's only about 50 percent. What happened -- and what can be done about it?
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