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Jody describes what it's like inside his hospital ... How an outbreak in a prison could overwhelm the local hospital system ... Jody: "Most people don't need to be locked up, and don't need to be locked up for that long" ... What about all the murderers and rapists? ... Why Jody is not a prison abolitionist ... How Covid kills ...

Robert praises Korea's and Germany's handling of the pandemic ... Why has testing been so slow in the US? ... Elaine on Trump's weirdness, inexperience, and denial ... Robert: Even before the pandemic, the economic expansion was aging out ... Fears of a U- or L-shaped recovery ... Optimism about the production of Covid treatments ...

Why did Bernie lose to Biden? ... When "common sense" is an ideology ... Daniel sees Bernie as the Barry Goldwater of democratic socialism ... Would a Biden administration do anything for people under 40? ... Aryeh charts his ideological path since 2008 ... Daniel: Republicans are better at politics because they understand what politics is ... The Spanish Flu in historical context ...

How would the late Mark Kleiman have viewed the policy response to the pandemic? ... The democratic legitimacy of the administrative state ... Glenn: Policy experts can't determine human values ... Are the economic tradeoffs of shutdown too great? ... Harold: The costs of Covid are vivid in people's lives ... Did Trump unintentionally help tamp down civil unrest? ...

Disinfectants, ultraviolet light, and Trump's brain ... What was America's crucial corona mistake? ... Are we headed for phased-in herd immunity? ... Skepticism about contact tracing ... Does climate make some regions Covid-resistant? ... Mickey: Trump's immigration order "in a tiny way achieved the ancient dream" ... Has Biden's (alleged) cognitive decline plateaued? ... Bob defends economic engagement with China ... Migrants, pandemics, and racism ...

Kids, summer camp, and fears of reopening ... Matt: It's the government's responsibility to protect stupid people ... Bill: Trump is always focused on today ... The case against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as Biden's VP ... The VP strengths and weaknesses of Klobuchar and Kamala ... How to join Bill and Matt's Zoom chats with fans ... Will Justin Amash run for president as a Libertarian? And will Matt vote for him? ...

What most worries Richard about the economy ... Assessing the Fed's and Congress's economic interventions ... Why China is doing relatively well economically ... Richard: Conventional wisdom on debt and interest rates is wrong ... How much government spending is too much? ... Is a private debt crisis looming? ... Can the government create money without creating debt? ... Richard: Deflation is now a much bigger concern than inflation ...

How Bob joined and eventually split with the civil rights movement ... Critiquing the government bureaucracy of the American welfare state ... Bob: Affirmative action has been exploited by middle-class blacks ... Black achievement during the century after the Civil War ... Glenn asks, "what is to be done?" ... Bob: "I don't have any choice but to be optimistic" ... Glenn: "Black people ought not to be taught to hate our country" ...

Will Fauci be Trump’s next scapegoat? ... Mickey: The White House's guidelines for reopening are "insane" ... Does Trump grasp the nature of the challenge? ... The future of podcasts and what really killed blogs ... Debating whether "diversity" encourages coronavirus ... Bob accuses Mickey of spreading a racist anti-Chinese rumor ... The real villains—the cosmopolitan elites! ... Should we believe the WHO? Should we believe China? ... If Biden wins, who will actually run the government? ...

Jessica's new book, My War Criminal ... A capsule history of Serbian nationalism ... Radovan Karadžić, chameleon ... Karadžić's career trajectory: psychiatrist, poet, politician ... The breakup of Yugoslavia and Karadžić's rise ... Trying to understand the Serbian perspective ... Karadžić's genocidal role in the Bosnian War ... Is Karadžić an example of the banality of evil? ... The obligatory Trump parallels ... Why to explain all is not to forgive all ...