|
Harrison Tassopoulos discusses Colin Kaepernick's NFL protest and its fallout with us. Also on this episode: Trump's decision to rescind DACA and Hobby Lobby's inadvertent purchase of looted antiquities.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
2 Comments
Amy, Kari, and Kristen discuss Hurricane Harvey and its impact followed by lighter topics on managerial challenges and micronations. Happy Labor Day, y'all!
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: WaPo: Melania Trump’s heels Harvard Business Review: Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy Atlas Obscura: Micronations Republic of Molossia
Kari and Amy comment on Charlottesville and discuss Confederate monuments. Planned topics for the week include a perspective on North Korea and our opinions on Disney's decisions to leave Netflix for their own streaming service.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: Southern Poverty Law Center: Whose Heritage? Vox on YouTube: The growing North Korean nuclear threat, explained NPR: North Korea Says It Won't Fire Missiles At Guam After All BuzzFeed: Disney Is Ending Its Netflix Deal, Will Launch Its Own Streaming Services Charli XCX: Boys Ingrid Michaelson: Time Machine Ingrid Michaelson: Girls Chase Boys
Leah Murphy guests as we try to remember exactly what sort of threat Russia poses to America. We also ask why are we still teaching math as memorization and can programmed machines really create better art than humans?
Apologies for the late release. This episode was originally scheduled for release on August 7th.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: BBC: How much of a threat does Russia pose, and to whom? HuffPo: Improve Relations With Russia NYTimes Opinion: The Politics of Math Education The Atlantic: How Does Race Affect a Student's Math Education? Hyperallergic: Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel NYTimes: Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram
Reid Baker returns for some back-and-forth on Evergreen College and how that controversy illuminates different approaches to equality. We also discuss Colorado's Masterpiece Cakes legal battle and how we would prepare our underground bunkers in the event of an apocalypse.
Note for chapter skippers: Our first segments runs about 20 minutes this time instead of the typical 15.
Promoted Links:
Belly Yoga & Beyond (Amy's beleaguered and understanding goat yoga instructor) Selected Links: HuffPo: Evergreen State College Implosion NYTimes Opinion: When the Left Turns on its Own The Joe Rogan Experience: Bret Weinstein The Hidden Brain: Shankar Vedantam on Unconscious Biases Harvard: Implicit Bias Self-test The Economist: Can a baker refuse to make a gay wedding cake? WaPo: Supreme Court Takes Colorado Baker Case BuzzFeed: Luxury Bunker Survival Quiz
Congressional candidate Danielle Pellett joins us for a heavy science topic: are liquid fluoride thorium reactors the future of energy policy? Also, what happens when women legislate and is Mark Zuckerberg considering a political run?
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Promoted Links: Dani for Congress She's Running Podcast Topic Links: YouTube: Liquid Fluorine Thorium Reactors in Five Minutes Rutgers CAWP: American Female Officeholders in 2017 NPR: It's The No. 1 Country For Women In Politics — But Not In Daily Life NYT Opinion: What Happens When Women Legislate The Atlantic: Would Electing More Women Fix Congress? Buzzfeed: Selling Mark Zuckerberg
Topics with Nel Fedorov: Is Ivanka Trump's White House position nepotism and does it matter? Is Trump's position on NATO logical? And we question Donald "the deal-maker" given AHCA's failure in the House.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: SNL: Complicit Independent: Donald Trump 'printed out fake £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel' The Atlantic: The Real Story of Obamacare's Birth WaPo: Jennifer Garner urges Congress to fund early-childhood education
With Jim Kingman, Amy and Kari ask: How should the US support trade school education? How exactly does constitutional originalism work? And how can Trump's VOICE proposal help us think about crime statistics and reporting overall?
*Apologies for the late release this week. Editing issues and life in general got in the way this time around.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: NPR: Originalism: A Primer On Scalia's Constitutional Philosophy WaPo: Neil Gorsuch, Antonin Scalia and originalism, explained Fortune: Thousands Want Wall Street’s Fearless Girl Statue to Become Permanent Change.org: Make Wall Street's Fearless Girl Permanent
Reid Baker guests as we discuss Calexit and wonder if secession is ever a reasonable proposal. Amy asks why conversations about privilege annoy certain people and how can we communicate more productively? Last, can we defend Trump's so far frequent use of Mar-a-Lago as president?
NASA made a cool discovery, but was it worth our taxpayer dollars? HSAs look to play a big role in Republicans' retooling of healthcare so what are they and do we like them? And can we defend Trump's approach to the press?
Teresa Peterman brings our first true Republican perspective.
We've removed this episode from our hosting platform, but please check out some of our highlights here!
Selected Links: WSJ: The Tax-Smart Way to Use Health Savings Accounts WaPo: People could save a lot of money on health care—if only they knew how to use health savings accounts NTYimes: Republicans Want You in a Health Savings Account. So Now What? WaPo: CNN, New York Times, other media barred from White House briefing Extra Newsfeed: A Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him: February 24th Mass Ritual Big Think: Want to Be Zen as F*Ck? Try Rage Yoga. |
ScheduleNew episodes every other Monday.
Archives
June 2019
TOPic TAGS
All
|
