The streets of Chicago are calmer now, so Eric and Joe take stock of the last few weeks. Was blocking the protests out of the Loop the right move when it resulted on pushing not only the protests but also some rioting and looting into Chicago’s north, west and southside neighborhoods? No offense, but Ald. Ray Lopez sure doesn’t f-ing think so. Reason senior editor Robby Soave joins the program to discuss the striking new relevance of his book “Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump,” the meltdown over a Sen. Tom Cotton op/ed at The New York Times and the rise of campus safetyism in the larger world. Eric shares an op/ed from a Millikin University Theater professor who contends that asking student theater performers to arrive 10 minutes early is "enforcing a white colonialist conception of time on our students.” And that’s just one of the insane ideas in that piece. If “defund the cops” doesn’t actually mean defunding the cops, maybe it isn’t the best slogan? Just a thought. And finally, Wendy's Twitter account wants you to know that they aren’t racist. Ya know, just in case you thought they were, we guess?

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