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Peter's controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors ... Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum? ... Peter's work on the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants ... Roland Fryer's research on race and lethal police force ... Stories vs. statistics ... Remembering Glenn's late wife, economist Linda Datcher Loury ...

Back to school (from home) ... Evaluating Trump's "everything was fine until…" messaging ... Matt is shocked that Trump is still in the running ... Why is Biden underperforming in Florida polls? ... The story of the Antifa murderer vs. the story of Trump's military insults ... Is street violence objectively good or bad for Trump? ... Should GOP Senate candidates run as if Biden will win? ...

Why the polls may be significantly understating Trump’s support ... Bob and Mickey offer Biden some "Sister Souljah" options ... Anonymous sources say Trump calls dead soldiers losers ... What did Trump mean by "dark shadows"? ... Are things so screwed up that a second Trump term could usefully “heighten the contradictions”? ... Mickey: Democrats are about to flip-flop on mail-in voting ... Bob fears an escalation in violent confrontation between left and right ... Possible pandemic October surprises ... Bob and Mickey on Ben Smith on Andrew Sullivan ... NYT anti-Trump bias (cont’d) ...

Matt: Running against antifa is Trump's only remaining play ... Trump's unusual strategy of not running as the incumbent ... Matt wonders whether Trump has an invisible army of potential voters ... After pundits' many mistakes in 2016, what should we believe in 2020? ... Bill's Massachusetts primary postmortem ... Is being a Kennedy now an electoral hindrance? ... As goes Jim Gaffigan, so goes the nation? ...

Defining "liberal internationalism" ... Should US policy toward another nation depend on its internal character? ... Tensions within liberal internationalism ... The club of democracies, Rooseveltian internationalism, and neoconservatism ... Debating whether liberal democracies are more likely to play by the rules ... How John would shape US policy toward China ... Bob: Our main task should be making America a shining city on a hill ... John's advice for the next administration ... Bob nominates John for Secretary of State ...

John detects a burgeoning pushback against racial wokeness ... The anti-racist “bluff” ... Glenn: Most Americans agree with Trump’s defenses of the police ... Comparing the 1963 March on Washington to its 2020 sequel ... Why doesn’t Trump disavow violence committed in his name? ...

Can a 30-year-old be "too young to know better"? ... Typecasting young people as woke political radicals ... The revolution devours its adults ... The inevitable disaster of reopening residential colleges ... The strange case of Aaron Coleman ...

The complex heterogeneity of Black American politics ... Why are there so few conservatives in academia? ... Is there any hope of attracting more of them? ... Glenn proposes the creation of a Conservative Studies program ... How Covid-induced austerity might affect diversity in university hiring ... Would it even be possible to staff a conservative academic institution? ...

Mickey’s unfavorable review of Trump’s speech ... Why Trump is far from doomed ... Does Trump have anything to brag about in his foreign policy? ... How much blame does Trump deserve for the pandemic's toll? ... The open-carry shooting in Kenosha ... What Jerry Falwell Jr. and Jimmy Swaggart have in common ... Both parties have unstable coalitions, so why hasn't there been a realignment? ... Bob and Mickey both attempt to claim the mantle of Ricky Ricardo ...

Matt has been impressed by the GOP convention... ... ...but does any of it matter? ... Matt's confidence about Biden slips ... Breakout stars of the convention with an eye to 2024 ... Matt's conservative base focus group, a.k.a. lunch with his mom ... Bill previews the MA Senate primary between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy ... A tough race for a progressive challenger, and a fake(?) scandal, in MA-1 ... The ominous cultural currents exposed by the Kenosha shooting ...