Elie Honig on How The Powerful Evade Justice

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Mike talks with former federal prosecutor and CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig about his just released book, Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It.

Topics Mike & Elie Cover Include:
– the tactics powerful people use to avoid prosecution
– the legal strategies of Donald Trump and The Trump Organization
– using cutouts and innuendo to avoid direct responsibility
– how fear of reprisal helps to protect the powerful
– the use and abuse of presidential pardons
– the cases against Donald Trump and the likelihood of convictions

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Judge Pierre Bergeron on State Courts, Criminal Sentencing, and Trial by Jury

Mike talks with Pierre Bergeron, a judge on Ohio’s 1st District Court of Appeals about judicial elections, state constitutional interpretation & abortion rights, the lack of good sentencing data & why it matters, and Judge Bergeron’s concerns about how few cases result in trials by jury.

Measures for Justice

How a Spreadsheet Could Change the Criminal Justice System. Pierre Bergeron and Michael Donnelly. The Atlantic, December 14, 2020.

The Missing American Jury. Suja Thomas

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Robb Willer and Jan Voelkel on Strengthening American Democratic Attitudes

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Trey talks with Robb Willer and Jan Voelkel about their research on the interventions that increase Americans’ democratic attitudes.

Topics Trey, Robb, and Jan discuss include:
– What led to studying democratic attitudes?
– How can we decrease partisanship?
– What are antidemocratic behaviors?
– Democratic backsliding
– Relating to those who are not like us

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Bill Kuhn on the GOP as a Threat to Democracy

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Mike talks with Bill Kuhn, co-founder of Fight for a Better America and author of Facts & Fury, where he make the argument that the Republican Party has done significant damage to American democracy.

Topics Mike & Bill discuss include:

  • how Republicans are strategically smarter than Democrats
  • the electoral advantages of the GOP
  • important differences between Republican activists and ‘regular Republicans’
  • the potential value and danger of inflammatory rhetoric
  • the GOP’s ‘unhealthy obsession’ with private enterprise
  • pushing unpopular policy through manufacturing outrage & division
  • Republicans and cancel culture
  • and lots more!

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Michelle Wilde Anderson on Reimagining Discarded America

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Mike talks with Michelle Wilde Anderson, professor of property, local government, and environmental justice at Stanford Law School, about her recently released book, The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America.

Topics Mike & Michelle Cover Include:

  • the problem of citywide poverty
  • poor cities and gateway cities
  • ineffective “solutions” to citywide poverty
  • how pathologizing poor cities as failed and corrupt makes things worse
  • the importance of rebuilding trust in tackling citywide poverty
  • poverty & hope in Stockton California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit Michigan

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Bryan Caplan on Evil Politicians

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Mike talks with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and blogger at Bet on It. He’s the author of multiple books, including four that we’ve previously discussed on the show: The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, Open Borders, and Labor Econ vs The World: Essays on the World’s Greatest Market. On this episode, Mike and Bryan talk about his most recent book, How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery.

Topics Mike & Brian Discuss Include:

– The meaning of evil – is it more than just self-interest?
– Bryan’s contention that the vast majority of politicians are, in fact, evil
– Why we should hold politicians to a higher standard
– The almost utter lack of “moral due diligence” on the part of politicians
– If people don’t know or just don’t care about evil politicians
– Demagoguery as the politics of social desirability
– Liberal vs Conservative forms of evil
– The extent to which evil politicians are a result of a bad system
– The pragmatic case for pacifism
– If any US hostilities since WWII were justified
– What, if anything, we can do about evil politicians

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Joe Zammit-Lucia on The New Political Capitalism

Kimberly Weir. Professor of International Relations at Northern Kentucky University,  talks with international management consultant Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia  about his latest book, The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicized World.
Topics Kimberly & Joe discuss include:
  • Why business and politics are inseparable
  • How the interaction between business and government is like football
  • Policy regulation and deregulation as public goods
  • Why living in Florida would be impossible without government subsidies
  • Why so many corporations give China a pass on its authoritarian policies
  • Why Harley Davidson workers voted to axe their own jobs
  • Tony Chocoloney and the problem of moving away from slave labor chocolate
  • The instability of the current tri-polar trade bloc system
  • The reality that ‘no brand can remain apolitical for too long’
  • Markets as essentially political constructs
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That’s Not Funny: Matt Sienkiewicz on Right-Wing Humor

Mike talks with Matt Sienkiewicz, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Boston College Communication Department. He’s the co-author, along with Nick Marx, of That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them.

Topics Mike & Matt Discuss Include:
– why most political comedy is left of center
– the main types of right of center comedy
– “punching up” vs “punching down” in comedy
– conservative humor challenging liberal pieties
– the biggest names in right wing comedy
– why right-wing comedy matters, even if you don’t think it’s funny

Right-Wing Comedy Links
The Political Orphanage. Andrew Heaton
Greg Gutfeld
Ryan Long
Michael Malice

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Will Moravits on Policing and Race in America

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Mike talks with Will Moravits, a former police officer who became a college professor, earning his Masters in Political Science from Texas State University and a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University. He’s the author of the recently published book The Blue Divide: Policing and Race in America.

Topics Mike & Will Discuss Include:
– Will’s unique perspective as a former cop / current academic
– effectiveness of police use of force training
– understanding how humans respond in high-stress situations
– myths and misconceptions surrounding police use of force
– what Will learned from studying multiple high-profile police shootings
– the case Will makes for a lack of racial bias in police shootings
– defunding the police
– President Biden’s Executive Order concerning federal law enforcement
– Will’s thoughts on how to improve policing

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Howard Blum & The Spy Who Knew Too Much

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Ken breaks out his extensive Cold War spy knowledge in this conversation with journalist and New York Times best-selling author Howard Blum. They discuss his recently released book, The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer’s Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal. Formerly a reporter for the The Village Voice and the New York Times, Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Topics Ken and Howard cover include:
– the uses of intelligence
– moles, traitors, spies
– big moles vs little moles
– the war within the CIA
– Angleton, Golitsyn, and the “Monster Plot”
– the suspicious “suicide” of CIA agent John Paisley
– human vs signal intelligence
– if human intelligence really matters
– spying in the US/ Russia / Ukraine conflict
– and lots more!

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