How we know that Earth's climate is changing... ... ...and that humans are responsible for those changes ... Projections are hard, especially about the future ... Patrick: A "climate model" is just math and physics ... Climate change's dire effects on ecosystems ... So what is to be done? ... Costs now, possible benefits for our grandkids ... The politics of climate science ...

Should we believe Kavanaugh? Ford? Both? ... Kavanaugh the choir boy vs. Kavanaugh the party boy ... Aryeh recounts his brush with DKE, Kavanaugh's Yale frat ... Cathy is concerned about the plight of the wrongly accused ... Remembering the child abuse sex panic of the 1980s ... Jezebel reported that a journalist is a very bad boyfriend. Then he lost his job. ... Should the article have even been written? ...

Bill and Matt both predict that Kavanaugh will be confirmed ... Is Kavanaugh’s drinking history relevant? ... “Believe all women” vs. the presumption of innocence ... Is the “job interview” framing accurate? ... Matt: If life is a job interview, freedom of expression is at stake ... Bill reviews every memoir written by a presidential mistress in the past century ...

Nine years later, two Bloggingheads commenters reunite ... Maha reports from the socialist dystopia of Sweden ... Varieties of capitalism ... Why most European democratic socialists are really social democrats ... Assessing Matt Bruenig's plan for a social wealth fund ... The radical implications of Elizabeth Warren's corporate governance plan ...

Men on Twitter proudly declare that they didn't rape anyone in high school ... Examining Kavanaugh's and Ford's testimony ... Reasons to believe Ford ... Does it make sense to apply the privilege critique to Kavanaugh? ... Is Kavanaugh vs. Ford turning into a contemporary Dreyfus Affair? ... When a putative male feminist treats women badly ...

Matt: Kavanaugh vs. Ford was a tie, which means he'll be confirmed ... Was Kavanaugh's emotional testimony heartfelt or cynical? ... Why "deny, deny, deny" usually works ... Bill reviews the history of the judicial wars ... If Kavanaugh replaces Kennedy, how will the Court change? ... Bill asks Matt: Is this worth it? ...

Greg's new book, The Gutfeld Monologues ... How going to Berkeley pushed Greg toward conservatism ... Trumpism creates strange ideological bedfellows ... Bob offers a magic solution to the freedom vs. security dilemma ... Was Obama right to avoid the phrase "Islamic radicalism"? ... Trump's savvy use of identity politics ... The secret ingredient to Greg's meditation practice ...

Asian-American students sue Harvard for racial discrimination ... Weighing the pluses and minuses of affirmative action ... Amy: The students have an uphill battle to win the case ... Kavanaugh and #MeToo ... Are women exaggerating their trauma? ... Amy: "The feminists want to burn all this to the ground" ...

Anand’s new bestseller, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World ... How the targets of Anand’s book have reacted to it ... Why Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk aren’t saving the world ... Anand explains why it’s not enough for zillionaires to “give back” to society ... What exactly is wrong with American capitalism? ... Bob takes a courageous stand on behalf of Cinnabon ... Anand says the developing world is worse off under Trump ... When Anand dropped a bomb at the Aspen Institute ...

The difference between democratic socialism and social democracy ... Meagan: The "burden of proof" should be on capitalists, not socialists ... Some questions about how a socialist system would function ... Noah defends neoliberal incrementalism ... A neoliberal case for Medicare for all ... Meagan: Capital inevitably subverts the popular political will ... Does the average person have a voice in our democracy? ... Does racism stand in the way of American socialism? ...