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What does it mean to be a black conservative? ... Why Glenn's views on affirmative action have shifted back and forth ... What happens if affirmative action is eliminated? ... Glenn critiques the idea of a "New Jim Crow" ... The case against reparations ... Feeling like the token black conservative ... Could reparations lead to a national spiritual renewal? ... Glenn takes questions from the audience ...

Michael: Ukrainegate flows out of Russiagate ... Are Democrats overinterpreting the evidence against Trump? ... Does it matter that the whistleblower is a CIA agent? ... Why this was the breaking point for House Dems ... Bob: Trump has inured us to a baseline level of corruption ... Would any other president have done this? ... Will impeachment wind up helping Trump? ... If Trump is gone, Pence could well win in 2020 ...

Mellie: Cancel culture is both real and fake ... Saturday Night Live's weird place in American culture ... Lenny Bruce was driven to his death but Louis CK is performing again ... Is cancellation just the market working itself out? ... Bret Stephens plays the Twitter martyr ... The Bagel Boss guy and other everyday malefactors who go viral ... Twitter libs try and fail to cancel Mellie ... Roy Cohn and the case for cancellation ...

Angie's new book, The Long Southern Strategy ... Angie: It wasn't inevitable that civil rights would become a wedge issue ... The Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly, and anti-feminist backlash ... The subtler replacements for overt racism and sexism ... How the Southern style of politics took over the GOP ... Abortion and the migration of Southern Baptists to the GOP ... Did Republicans take advantage of Billy Graham? ... Trump's failed party realignment ... Which Democrat has the best chance of beating Trump? ...

Why Matt is in favor of impeachment ... Bill praises Pelosi's wait-and-see strategy ... Bill: Dems should be whispering to GOPers, "President Pence" ... Do Warren's big crowds matter? ... Poor Joe Biden just can't get good press ...

Is polarization a problem to be solved with "water or fire"? ... If Trump wins reelection, will national reconciliation be possible? ... How John's biography prepared him for this work ... Love thy political antagonist as thyself ... Marianne Williamson and the possibility of racial forgiveness ... Martin Luther King's legacy in today's black activist movements ... Glenn: Any movement for justice must be transracial ...

Biden, Corn Pop, and the pragmatism of older black voters ... Does the media choose who it wants to win? ... Matt doubts black voters will abandon Biden for Warren ... What happened to Kamala? ... Is Matt's "too dumb to fail" thesis playing out on the left? ... Cancel culture in comedy ... Justin Trudeau's blackface scandal ... The case of Louis CK ...

Bhaskar's new book, The Socialist Manifesto ... Where Sanders, Warren, and Corbyn fit on the socialist spectrum ... Trump as radicalizer of the left ... Why Marxism failed in Russia and the Third World ... Bhaskar: My objection to capitalism isn’t about the market per se ... Can NAFTA and other trade agreements be made to work for workers? ... Why do socialists tend to be anti-war? ...

Hey, you guys, is there something wrong with the phrase "you guys"? ... Phoebe: "I have trouble believing people are actually offended" ... Is language policing objectively pro-Trump? ... The epic Instagram-influencer friendship drama of Caroline and Natalie ... Is Natalie just as guilty as Caroline? ... Does Caroline deserve this sort of takedown? ...

Eric's new book on populism and immigration, Whiteshift ... Why it's counterproductive to call Trump supporters racist ... Eric's vision of an American ethnic nationalism ... Bob: Ideally, shouldn't we get past ethnicity? ... Will mixed-race children of the future identify as white? ... Debating whether a purely civic nationalism is viable ... The real reasons most white voters backed Trump ... The two Democrats who Eric thinks would do best against Trump ... Is ethnic affinity in our genes? ...