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Greg's book, The Coddling of the American Mind ... Greg: Paranoid parenting made today's college students fragile ... How social media increased polarization and mental illness ... Greg critiques the "hyper-bureaucratization" of universities ... Is the anti–cancel culture brigade hypocritical about free speech? ... Greg praises the American folk understanding of free speech ... How much should we respect the religious sensibilities of others? ... How cognitive behavioral therapy helped save Greg's life ... Twitter as meditative practice ...

Glenn announces a new version of The Glenn Show ... Eli and Shelby's new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... "Why is it so hard to see the truth here?" ... Shelby: Post-'60s liberalism is the culprit ... What changed in black communities between 1950 and 1980? ... White guilt as a drug ... Eli: BLM had an agenda and was waiting for a tragedy to exploit ... Shelby: The solutions lie in old-fashioned values ... A father and son collaboration ...

With Trump poised to lose, Mickey looks on the bright side ... Bob deplores Trump's unfounded election allegations ... Why were the polls so off? ... If Latinos are assimilating culturally by voting GOP, are Mickey's immigration fears kaput? ... Possible reasons for the tightness of the race ... Will Trumpism live on? ... Bob has some good news on the Covid front ... Mickey foresees a dreary Biden administration ... Bob foresees a Blob-ified Biden foreign policy ... Did Trump move the GOP to the left? ...

Bill promised that Biden would win. Does he have to turn in his pundit license? ... Matt: We have been ill-served by the media and the pollsters ... Trump's attempt to shut down the count ... Bill eats crow on the Senate ... Why did the states diverge so much? ... Is Trumpism here to stay? ... Hear more on the DMZoom! ...

Jon's new book, Trump's Democrats ... Doing ethnography in the Rust Belt, an Italian-American suburb, and Appalachia ... Jon: Trump is a familiar figure to these voters ... How Trump embodies honor culture ... Trump's flouting of the norms of the professional class ... Why this style works better locally than nationally ... Jon: Race is not as important as place ... Will Trump's Democrats defect to Biden? ...

John explains how he became a reluctant Trump voter ... How the threat of gun control pushed John towards Trump ... Is a vote against Biden a vote against woke ideology? ... Aryeh: Trump is bad for our brains and our souls ... Can Trumpism exist without Trump? ... Aryeh denies suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ... Is the black vote in play? ... The party realignment that didn't happen ... Pessimism about a Biden presidency ...

Bob worries Hunter could cost Joe the election ... Mickey: "There's a huge journalistic conspiracy" to bury the Hunter story ... Bob argues that Trump is an existential threat to democracy ... Why is immigration restriction Mickey's main answer to low wages? ... Can there be a Trumpism without Trump? ... Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept ... Mickey worries that woke Millennials will ruin Substack ... Why the identity of the anti-Trump "Anonymous" didn't shock Mickey ... Mickey’s election predictions ...

What are the odds that Trump wins? Bill says zero. ... Why Matt is embracing epistemic humility ... Florida red, Arizona blue? ... Reviewing the Supreme Court's recent voting rulings ... Bill: We may learn something huge about Amy Coney Barrett on Monday ... Some time off from the culture war? ... Bill predicts Democrats will win back the Senate ... Matt's prediction: Lindsey Graham will lose ...

Does Trump deserve to be re-elected? ... Examining "Trump Derangement Syndrome" ... Glenn's verdict on Trump's handling of Covid ... Aryeh: Biden is the candidate of returning us to normalcy ... What is college for? ... Aryeh's biggest college regret ... Issuing a challenge for Trump fans ...

Matt's new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger ... Matt: "Immigration is very underrated" ... Bob: What about the political backlash against low-skilled immigration? ... Why people have fewer kids than they want ... Matt: Climate change isn't a good reason not to have children ... Is international cooperation on climate change possible? ... Did we make a big mistake on China and information technology? ... The case for solidaristic American patriotism ...