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Why high inflation is a potentially dire problem ... Are we headed the way of Weimar Germany and Argentina? ... How short-term government spending can function as a longterm investment ... The looming threat of the fiscal gap ... Why is the US’s fiscal gap so large compared to that of other countries? ... Larry: We’re on the path to becoming a second-rate country ... Why Larry thinks we should index taxes to inflation ... Can we pay for what we’re spending without printing money? ...

To man bun or not to man bun? ... The 50th anniversary of the D.B. Cooper hijacking ... Bill and Matt talk turkey ... Should Bill Maher be more judicious in his criticisms of the Democratic Party? ... Are we judging Kamala too harshly? ...

Mike's new book, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It ... Subconscious narratives today and in interwar Germany ... Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse in the digital world ... Mike wants memes that will slow people down ... How "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" has been misread ... Mike's Kafkaesque book publishing experience ...

Bernard-Henri Lévy, c’est Mickey ... Rittenhouse acquitted, Malcolm X’s “assassins” exonerated ... How much of BBB will make it through the Senate? ... Some of Mickey’s policy nightmares still lurk within BBB ... Is Elon Musk consciously courting an ideological customer base? ... Bob: Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert crossed a line ... Why are Biden’s poll numbers so bad? ... Mickey: Elite Trump voters don’t want him to run again ... Mickey Kaus, n’est pas Bari Weiss ... Parrot Room preview: Nellie Bowles decamps to Bari Weiss’s Substack, Andrew Sullivan on 60 Minutes, Anne Applebaum, more trash talking Sam Harris, more on the Dulles brothers, bad news for the University of Austin, Belarus, news on ivermectin and the lab leak hypothesis, why David Frum hates Blake Masters, and Bob chastises Mickey ...

John takes a step back from podcasting ... Confronting the critique of systemic racism ... The persistence of victimhood ... Accounting for the racial wealth gap ... Glenn: When it comes to incarceration, we have to take systemic racism seriously ... Can analyses of historical systemic racism offer us counsel today? ... John: Certain members of "the Elect" would be pleased to see an alt-right backlash ...

Bill: Kyrsten Sinema can claim victory ... The tricky politics of fixing inflation ... How are all these people who quit their jobs able to afford it? ... Bill: Dems should gird themselves for bruising midterms ... What are Kamala's prospects for 2024? ... Matt: America is in desperate need of leadership ...

John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles—the stars of Stephen’s book The Brothers—as architects of covert imperialism ... Stephen explains how disgruntled bankers and lawyers started the CIA ... How corporate interests drove the 1954 US-led coup in Guatemala ... The enduring relevance of US meddling in Iran in 1953 ... Self-fulfilling, Manichean prophecies of the Cold War ... Imagining history without the Dulles brothers ... Have we learned from our past mistakes? ...

Seth's newsletter covering comedy from the left, Humorism ... Seth: Saturday Night Live is conservative ... Is being hired by SNL a Faustian bargain? ... Lawsuit alleges SNL ignored Horatio Sanz's sexual abuse of a minor ... The bizarre nature of SNL as a cultural institution ... How the pandemic has and hasn't changed comedy ... Is standup comedy an inherently conservative form? ...

Bob and Mickey hatch a plan to profit from the University of Austin ... Bob: The question of inflation is tied to the status of the pandemic ... Mickey’s soft infrastructure proposal ... Whither high-speed rail? ... Who will claim ideological leadership of the Republican Party? ... If Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted, will civil unrest follow? ... Parrot Room preview: Substack, under-news about a member of Congress and a would-be member of Congress, Mickey’s beef with Jonathan Chait, Fiona Hill, Bob chastises the Washington Post for inaccurate Brian Williams coverage, evidence that Mickey is suffering from CTCDS (child tax credit derangement syndrome), some damning Tony Blinken audio, Mickey’s so-crazy-it-just-might-work solution to the Trump dilemma, Bob attempts to stump Mickey with a Beatles trivia question, Sam Harris, car talk, and more on the University of Austin ...

“Tolstoy is mine. Dickens is mine. Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein are mine” ... “Our Americanness is much more important than our blackness” ... Conservatives cannot go back to "business as usual" on race. ... A conservative prescription for persistent racial inequality ... The roots of racial disparity ... Putting police killings of black Americans into perspective ... From white guilt to white backlash ... The “lie” that the American Dream doesn’t apply to blacks ... Black people “must seize equal status” ...