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Robby's new book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump ... Aryeh's meta-critique of reporting about college students ... Why are so many college students acting so fragile? ... The good and the bad of intersectionality ... How did the ideology of intersectionality spread so quickly? ... Do colleges view students as customers who are always right? ... The rise and possible fall of no-platforming ... Sexual assault on campus, Title IX, and #MeToo ... Should we still be worried about the alt-right? ... Threats to free speech from both sides ...

What would a war with Iran look like? ... Ilan: The recent attacks on tankers were "almost definitely" Iranian ... How tit-for-tat attacks could spiral into war ... Bob: Trump is abusing America's central role in the global financial system ... What happens after the 2020 election? ... Signs that hardliners are winning the argument within Iran ... Debating whether Iran is a uniquely bad actor in the Middle East ...

Scott's book, First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas ... The influence of the Declaration of Independence on the Constitution ... Does Thomas want to invalidate the administrative state? ... Why Thomas cares about desegregation more than integration ... Does it matter what slave owners like Thomas Jefferson thought about liberty? ... Thurgood Marshall vs. Thomas on the Constitution ... Thomas's views on voting rights ... Jefferson, Lincoln, King, Thomas? ...

Do conservatives ever satirize themselves? ... Lessons from politics: Never apologize ... Is Biden in danger of losing black voters? ... Matt wonders if Bernie and Warren are too similar for comfort ... Were AOC’s "concentration camp" comments beyond the pale? ...

Michael's book on the Rockefeller drug laws, Black Silent Majority ... Critiquing Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow ... Adding a class critique to the discussion of race and crime ... Why Michael is torn over "respectability politics" ... Michael: People on both sides of the debate need to take poor black folk seriously ... Could black churches team up with Black Lives Matter? ... Could the black community ever work with Trump? ...

Chris’s new book, Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy ... Are libertarians, generally speaking, anti-war? ... Chris: The U.S. is powerful because people want to emulate us ... Libertarianism and international law ... Why has Congress let presidents usurp its war powers? ... The sorrows and joys of international weapons inspection treaties ... Why libertarian foreign policy is conducive to American security ... Does America have an imperialist foreign policy? ...

Who tried to kill Big Papi? ... Who attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman? ... Is Shinzo Abe Trump's friend or supplicant? ... Gauging the odds of war with Iran ... Heather: Trump's actions mean the US can never rejoin the nuclear deal ... The ever-growing costs of maintaining American hegemony ... Trump as God's gift to neoliberalism ... Dan has some kind words for Elizabeth Warren ...

The Trump administration’s "Iran Disinformation Project," which Negar helped expose ... Following the State Department money ... Will Congress cancel funding for the project? ... Heshmat Alavi, the Iran expert who turns out not to exist ... How is Trump viewed in Iran? ... Negar: Sanctions, though painful, won’t bring the Iranian regime down ... Could Trump cut a new nuclear deal? ...

Why Matt is on the Justin Amash train ... What would it take for Matt to vote for Biden (or any Democrat) in 2020? ... Bill: If Biden wins, he won’t be captive to the far left ... How to stand out on a crowded debate stage ... Bill: “Cult favorite” candidates have an advantage over credentialed politicians this time ...

Chris's new book, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America ... Why politics and Trump are mostly absent from the book ... McDonald's, the community center for people on the margins ... Successful immigrant communities like the Somalis in Lewiston, Maine ... "This is my home" and forms of meaning you can't measure ... Why dignity is the book's central theme ... Chris's thoughts on universal basic income ... Why GOP Sen. Tom Cotton blurbed the book ...