Jay takes advantage of “Q&A” to do away with “Q&A” and record a music program instead – this one related to Halloween. So there is a variety of spooky and devilish music – by Tartini, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and others. From a violin sonata to an aria to a horse ride into hell to a sorcerer (or rather, his apprentice). Enjoy, and don’t be too scared.

October is a big month for the baseball world. And Jay would like nothing better than to talk baseball with George Will — which he does. Will wrote a blockbuster baseball book, Men at Work. It keeps selling and selling. He himself is an encyclopedia of baseball. He has opinions, as everyone does, and they are all undergirt by facts. With Jay, he talks a little about his boyhood. His family... Source

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October is a big month for the baseball world. And Jay would like nothing better than to talk baseball with George Will -- which he does.

Will wrote a blockbuster baseball book, Men at Work. It keeps selling and selling. He himself is an encyclopedia of baseball. He has opinions, as everyone does, and they are all undergirt by facts.

With Jay, he talks a little about his boyhood. His family, his (brief) career in Little League, his attachment to the Cubs.

The two also talk about various issues in baseball: the length of the season, for example, and the length of the basepaths. Also the issue of drugs in the sport.

And don’t forget Pete Rose: Should he be in the Hall or not?

Jay asks Will to name some of his favorite pitchers, hitters, and managers, which he does. He also tells a story about his dinner with Ted Williams.

At the end, Will instructs Jay, “Don’t try to tickle metaphysics out of baseball.” Words to live by.

Anyway, celebrate baseball with one of the best minds in it, George F. Will.

Grant Starrett is a lawyer and politician in Tennessee. Kind of a model, if you’re a conservative Republican – a blue-chipper. He ran for Congress this year, against the Republican incumbent, and lost. Still in his twenties, he will probably run again, with a different result. Jay is a friend of Starrett’s, and they talk about running for office: the fundraising, the handshaking, the issues... Source

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Grant Starrett is a lawyer and politician in Tennessee. Kind of a model, if you’re a conservative Republican – a blue-chipper. He ran for Congress this year, against the Republican incumbent, and lost. Still in his twenties, he will probably run again, with a different result.

Jay is a friend of Starrett’s, and they talk about running for office: the fundraising, the handshaking, the issues, and so on. They also talk about conservatism. How did Starrett become one, by the way?

He was a precocious conservative – a reader of National Review and The Weekly Standard when he was in elementary school yet.

Starrett is a man who is “in the arena,” who has knocked on doors and put his name on the ballot. His views on politics – the practicalities of politics, as well as the philosophy – are highly interesting.

Thomas Sowell has revised and enlarged his important book Wealth, Poverty and Politics. With Jay, he talks about – well, wealth, poverty, and politics. How about Adam Smith and those boys? What about the role of geography? George Washington referred to America’s “blessed location.” What about the Korean Peninsula? The two halves of it are terribly different, aren’t they? Jay is like a guy in a... Source

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Thomas Sowell has revised and enlarged his important book Wealth, Poverty and Politics. With Jay, he talks about – well, wealth, poverty, and politics.

How about Adam Smith and those boys? What about the role of geography? George Washington referred to America’s “blessed location.” What about the Korean Peninsula? The two halves of it are terribly different, aren’t they?

Jay is like a guy in a cocktail lounge, making requests of the pianist. He asks Sowell to comment on trade. And on immigration. And on Indian reservations. And on China. And on environmentalism. And on education.

Also on Booker T. Washington, who has long been paired with W. E. B. Du Bois. Has the former gotten a fair shake? (No.)

Jay limns a Sowellian theme: People will flourish when the government gets out of their way and they get out of their own way. Of course, those are tall orders.

At any rate, a discussion with Tom Sowell is a joy and an education.

Jay has a little therapy session with Noah Rothman of Commentary magazine, one of his favorite analysts and writers. They talk about Trump and Hillary, of course – especially the former. And Russia, NATO, and Saddam. And the alt-Right. And the media. In other words, issues of the hour (and some past hours, and some future ones). After the conversation, Jay said, in so many words, “Thanks... Source

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Jay has a little therapy session with Noah Rothman of Commentary magazine, one of his favorite analysts and writers. They talk about Trump and Hillary, of course – especially the former. And Russia, NATO, and Saddam. And the alt-Right. And the media.

In other words, issues of the hour (and some past hours, and some future ones). After the conversation, Jay said, in so many words, “Thanks, I needed that.” You may like it too.

Jonah Goldberg is a leading conservative critic of Trump and Trumpism. Therefore, there is a big target on his back, and front, and everywhere else. And yet he stands and delivers. With Jay, he talks about Assange. Putin. The American Right. National Review. The National Enquirer. Hillary. The Trump Train. Anti-Semitism. The GOP future. Etc. He and Jay talk it all out, or most of it out... Source

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