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Rachel's new book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today ... Rachel on writing very frankly about her personal life ... The origin and definition of "too much" ... Is the book a defense of too muchness? ... Should women be treated more like men? Men more like women? Neither? ... Embracing your emotions vs. detaching yourself from them ... Trump as the epitome of "too much" ... The constraints binding female politicians ...

Did the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons suppress evidence that an infamous attack in Syria didn’t actually happen? ... Evidence from OPCW whistleblowers ... Evidence that the scene of the attack was staged ... Why reporters aren't incentivized to investigate this story ... What happened at the hospital? ... OPCW's side of the story ... Why Bob is agnostic about whether the Douma attack was real or faked ... Bob: A large news organization needs to investigate this story ...

How effective are Bloomberg's many, many ads? ... Matt isn't convinced that Bloomberg's debate performance will sink him ... Does Biden still have a chance? ... Warren's argument: I'll savage Trump like I savaged Bloomberg ... Matt thinks Klobuchar would match up well against Trump ... Will Nevada be another caucus clusterf*ck? ... Why the next 10 days may decide the race ...

Glenn's landmark 1977 paper, "A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences" ... Glenn's theory of "relations before transactions" ... Critics accused Glenn of "flirting with the idea of black inferiority" ... What William F. Buckley said that broke Glenn's heart ... Why do Maine and Vermont let prisoners vote, when most states don't? ... Glenn vows to finish his memoir this summer ... The roles that two black academics played in Glenn's early career ...

Andrew's new book, The Age of Illusions ... Andrew's ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR ... Defining foreign policy "realism" ... How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus ... Will international law ever command wide respect? ... 1992 as a harbinger of 2016 ... The political logic behind America’s endless drone war ... Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end ... How Andrew's service in Vietnam shaped his worldview ...

Why it took eight years for Kirby to finish This Is Not a Conspiracy Theory ... Kirby: "Conspiracies are logistically impossible" ... Bernie fans get conspiratorial after the botched Iowa caucuses ... Donald Trump, the Conspiracist-in-Chief ... QAnon and conspiracism as lifestyle ... Will Epstein's death be the JFK assassination of our era? ... What should you do if a loved one is falling into conspiracy theories? ...

Is Bernie the frontrunner? Co-frontrunner? ... The insider/outsider split in the moderate lane ... Parallels between the 2020 Dem primary and the 2016 GOP primary ... Inching toward a contested convention ... Previewing the Nevada caucuses ... Will the moderates unite to try to stop Sanders? ... Can Bloomberg buy the election? ... Matt fears that Trump is bulletproof ...

Do blacks and Latinos have aligning interests? ... Ernesto: Immigrants have an irrational belief in the American dream ... Debating the benefits of immigration ... Can universal health care and open immigration be reconciled? ... Why Peter called Mexicans the "ambivalent minority" ... Will Latinos socially assimilate? Will blacks be left behind again? ... Revisiting Lincoln's Second Inaugural ... Ernesto: Most Latinos just want to work ...

Matt: The Iowa caucuses were terrible for Democrats ... Bill sticks by his claim that Iowa matters less in 2020 than ever ... How vulnerable are Dems to Republican mischief? ... The significance of Romney’s impeachment vote ... Trying to make sense of Susan Collins ... Matt: “Out of every Republican, only one did the right thing” ...

When Tim Allen proposed an ideology he called "masculinism" ... The 1950s sitcom as America's mythic Eden ... How Christian churches are grappling with Jordan Peterson ... Bill: There is always anxiety that churches are too feminized ... "Storming Area 51" and the idea that aliens will be our friends ... The strange fight over cultural appropriation and the word "y'all" ... What happened to entertainment that's fun for the whole family? ...