This week, David and I can't agree on a topic. But we come in under an hour again!

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After a few weeks apart for traveling and the holidays, David and I catch up on some of the recent news, particularly the new movement towards revealing sexual misconduct and the new GOP tax bill.

Reductress: http://reductress.com/

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This week, David and I discuss America's possible futures. We horrifically fail to keep it under an hour (but only by a few minutes!), but that extra time is worth it because I make some truly great puns at the end.

Links:

Michael Kruse's article on Trump supporters -

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800

One of Stephen Skowronek's books -

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Presidents-Make-Leadership-Clinton/dp/0674689372

This week, Murat and I solve America's cultural divisions, or at least those concerning individual effort versus structural barriers. We recorded this on a different program because of difficulties with my cohost being back in Istanbul for a week, so my apologies if the audio sounds strange. BUT we kept it under an hour again!

This week David and I talk about his experience living in Turkey and Pakistan to assess the way the world views America.

BONUS: We tried really, really hard to make this come in under an hour - and it worked!

This week, David and I discuss men's fashion.

Coming back after an unexpected two-week break for illness and travel, we kick off our arc on America by talking about what America is as a concept.

In case our pronunciations made spelling his name difficult, here is the Wiki page for Ibn Khaldun, who was actually from the 14th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun

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This week David and I try to discuss President Trump by talking about "red flag" personal characteristics for leadership. We go ... far afield.

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Obscure reference corner: in wrestling, a "heel" is the bad guy you root against, and the "face" is the good guy you root for. Or something. This really isn't my area.

After taking an unplanned week off, David and I return for a special, double-length episode! This episode is ostensibly about places where we disagree with the left on policy, but we delve right into our biggest dispute of the whole show - are a cat's claws tools?

Links!

Paul Krugman's blog post on zoning, which came out after our last episode but hit many of the same points, only better:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/zoning-both-sides-get-it-wrong/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body

Other zoning links:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/09/houston-flooding-zoning-development.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/hurricanes-climate-capitalists-wealth-.html

The book David talked about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/books/review/democracy-in-chains-nancy-maclean.html

The article about Richard Post:http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/jailers-show-a-paraplegic-whos-boss-6445591

This week David and I discuss the areas where we disagree with the standard liberal positions. Because this episode runs long, we are largely keeping it to cultural issues - safe spaces, trigger warnings, secularism, and so on - and will focus on policy issues next week. (Spoiler alert: our take on safe spaces is actually somewhat hipster, focusing on how they've moved away from their roots)

I believe this is the article David mentions: https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/