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Glenn critiques attempts to make race a part of academic hiring ... "Optics equality" and the denial of group differences ... Improving low-income primary schools ... Topics on which you can't challenge the consensus ... Glenn's letter denouncing his own university's president over BLM ... Can academics "cite inclusively"? ... Will online education disrupt colleges? ... Advice for a nontenured professor with heterodox views ... What should a university administrator do? ... ...

Dan's essay, "How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy" ... Why so many Trump-era Daily Show–style shows have failed ... Trump the insult comic ... Dan: The way liberals and conservatives understand comedy has changed ... Stephen Colbert and Steven Crowder's different varieties of racial humor ... Trump's clownishness vs. Obama's dignity ... Remember when Trump gave a medal to a hero dog? Or was that just a joke? ... Cuties, QAnon, and the return of conservative moralizing ... What might comedy look like during a Biden presidency? ...

Mickey’s beef with Jeffrey Toobin ... Reviewing the final presidential debate ... Parsing the Hunter Biden emails ... The case against Joe Biden (and the case against the case) ... Three models of media scandal suppression ... Maybe Rudy Giuliani is just a glitch in the Matrix ... Could the pandemic actually kill 200,000 more people this year? ... Mickey sort of almost finally says he’s voting for Trump ...

Bill's new book, The Death of the Artist ... Why the "long tail" thesis was wrong ... How did the early dream of the Internet die? ... Blockbuster consolidation in fine art ... Luck and privilege ... Is art school a pyramid scheme? ... What is to be done? Bill has some thoughts ... Will the pandemic finish off the arts? ... Wokism as a moral figleaf for careerist college students ...

Bill’s encounter with Sacha Baron Cohen ... Why isn’t Mitch McConnell trying to pass a stimulus bill? ... Remembrance of skewed polls past ... Biden’s bipartisan bona fides ... The two Joe Bidens ... Debate advice for Trump ... So does Matt support Biden or what? ...

John's new book, The Socialist Awakening ... Bob wonders: Am I a socialist? ... Why Americans under 40 are so receptive to socialism ... Revisiting John's 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority ... How Trump pushed Democrats to the extreme on immigration ... Is socialism compatible with identity politics? ... Can labor issues be addressed at the multinational level? ... Why Trump just can't change ...

A tribute from an Israeli fan and a mea culpa from John ... The political influence of Ice Cube and Kanye West ... Shelby Steele’s new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... Appeals to American honor vs. appeals to American guilt ... The effects of economic restructuring on Black social mobility ...

What do Hunter Biden’s (purported) emails reveal (if anything)? ... Biden's alleged corruption vs. Trump's well-documented corruption ... Bob frets that the VP debate hurt Biden ... How Covid could tip a swing state ... Grading Biden's town hall performance ... Bob tells Biden what to say about court packing ... Would a Biden presidency be transformative? ... Is Trump's immigration crackdown making the pandemic worse? ... Mickey calls on Biden to have a "Sister Swamp-jah" moment ...

Precedent and super-precedent at the Barrett confirmation hearings ... Is a national abortion compromise possible? ... The case that could overturn Obamacare ... Matt: The idea that Barrett would be beholden to Trump is absurd ... So long, Commerce Clause; hello, taxing power! ... Was Pelosi's Wolf Blitzer outburst a strategic move? ... Are pollsters missing a hidden white working-class bloc? ... The mail vote wildcard ...

Glenn on the persistence of racial inequality ... Adaner on the persistence of racial inequality ... Determinism vs. individual moral judgment ... Is structural racism a real thing? ... Can exhortation change culture? ... Why Glenn prefers universal programs ... Does capitalism reinforce racial inequality? ... Contingent moments in America's racial history ... Glenn and Adaner offer some policy solutions ...