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Daniel's review of Dan's book The Ideas Industry ... Is a democratic exchange of ideas impossible under capitalism? ... What is the field of international relations for, exactly? ... Warren vs. Sanders on foreign policy ... Daniel: We need a "post-national imaginary" in foreign policy ... Dan's harsh critique of Trump's economic statecraft ...

Does the US tax system favor the rich? ... Why spending is more equally distributed than wealth ... How Larry makes his calculations ... How billionaires can avoid paying taxes ... Larry: We should tax consumption instead of income or wealth ... Larry critiques Andrew Yang's universal basic income plan ... Should Trump get credit for a good economy? ...

Previewing the Scher and Lewis Thanksgiving family fights ... The complicated method to watch Bill's favorite Thanksgiving sitcom episode ... Matt's case for dragging out impeachment ... Should Dems hold out for an impeachment bombshell to break? ... Why South Carolina may be the crucial primary state ... Bill: "The Bloomberg strategy is deeply flawed" ...

Meghan's new book, The Problem with Everything ... Are women less inclined to be heterodox thinkers? ... Generational differences between Gen Xers and Millennials ... How childhood became highly gendered ... The commercialization of feminism and the plight of men ... The non-universality of #MeToo stories ... Meghan responds to ageist criticism of her book ...

Matt: Democrats have exceeded my expectations at the impeachment hearings ... Signs that Giuliani will be the fall guy ... In defense of boring hearings ... Why wasn't the debate a Pete pile-on? ... Bill: Don't sleep on Klobuchar ... Matt: Is this Dem field as good as it gets? ... Did Booker strike out for the final time? ... Yang vs. Gabbard in the battle for Matt's heart ...

The many ways that Twitter is mismanaged ... Bob vs. Mickey on impeachment ... Is there any evidence of Biden's guilt? ... Bob accuses Mickey of defending Trump's Iran policy ... Mickey: "I'm not sure I want four more years of this" ... A thought experiment about bribery and sex ... Debating whether to identify the whistleblower ... What are the odds of conviction? ... Which Democrat should Trump most fear? ... Mickey floats the prison gang theory of Epstein's death ...

Critiquing William Nordhaus's work on the economics of climate change ... Larry: My plan for carbon taxation is a win-win ... Can elderly voters who don't care about the future be won over? ... What about critics of capitalism itself? ... Accounting for the uncertainties of climate science ... The work of the 2019 Economics Nobel laureates ...

Michael's new book, Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation ... Michael: "Rez ball" is defined by speed and fluid movement ... What life is like on the Navajo reservation ... The syncretism of traditional and Christian religion among the Navajo ... The waning of traditional Navajo culture and belief ... Why leaving the reservation can be so difficult ... What the basketball team means to the players and their families ... Has commercialization made sports better? ... The preposterous state of bigtime college sports ...

Explaining the wildly popular "ok boomer" meme ... Why Dan is both critical of and sympathetic toward "ok boomer" ... The Marxist critique of woke capitalism ... Twitter users offer bad life advice given by Boomers ... Do today's young people have a chip on their shoulders? ... Dan: We're still trying to develop a theoretical understanding of the Internet ... Why do college students seem to be more afraid of debate? ...

The Niskanen Center's defense of a "free-market welfare state" ... Hidden ways the government obstructs the free market ... Why a wealth tax probably wouldn't work ... Steve's ambivalence about impeachment ... Glenn says the emoluments charges are "penny ante bullshit" ... Steve: Trumpism has to be defeated at the ballot box ... The vain search for the "generic Democrat" ... What happens to the NeverTrumpers post-Trump? ...