Nancy Rommelmann explores why the violence in Portland, following the death of George Floyd, bloomed for over 100 consecutive nights; how a giving over of common sense for what some saw as the common good keeps the situation precarious, and why there is reason to hope.

At a time when the student COVID positivity rate in NYC is 0.01%, the governor is spreading fear that school buildings are death traps, says Matt Welch, reading from his latest for Reason magazine, with bonus bits at the beginning and end because why not?

Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.

Census don't lie: For the first time in history, California lost population year-over-year in 2020; and lost a congressional seat to boot. But the underrated part about going from high-growth to slow-growth is what it does to culture.

Millions of Americans are back to work, and ready to visit relatives overseas for the first time in 16 months. Only they can't, because the State Deptartment can't get enough of its employees to come into work and process passports.

This share-the-pain interpretation of "equality," which people use to justify expanding the Selective Service system to women, is common, but fundamentally perverse. When assessing unequal treatment under the law based on immutable characteristics, a first-order sorting question should be: Is this a government-imposed legal inequality of *opportunity,* or of burden?

The masks are off, the planes are full, and the deaths are way down, yet millions of parents still don't know whether their children's schools will be reliably open this fall. Especially in Democratic cities and states.

Ahoy! Nancy and Matt are back from the road and in studio, talking about Robby Soave's great if infuriating article, "A Composer Condemned Arson. Now No One Will Hire Him," which posted today on Reason.com. This one hits a little close to home for Nancy so get out your flame resistant goggles. But really, it's summer! We're happy! Come on in!

Liz and Nancy talk lime zest (zester or box grater?), eat lemon mousse on-camera, and decide whether working in the hell-hole that is a restaurant kitchen is maybe on balance a good thing

Matt and Nancy test the new GoPro (kinda), talk NYC rebirth, and are all duded up for Kat Timpf's wedding party

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