ReConsider

By Erik Fogg

A podcast to examine your life, because the unexamined life is not worth living.

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October 02, 2020 What if The Fed Just Gave Us Free Money? w. Prof. Lawrence Marsh
Today, the Fed spends money buying bonds and setting interest rates to stimulate the economy. Econ Prof. Lawrence Marsh shares a radically different way of using the Fed: putting money directly into Americans' bank accounts. He argues the Fed needs to move from supply-side to demand-side stimulation in order to not only ease inequality but also lead to a much more efficient economy.
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September 29, 2020 Reminder: The Fault Line: 9/11, Bush, Blair, and Iraq, is Live TODAY!
Want to learn more about the events that most shaped the current 21st century international footing? The Fault Line is out _today_ and follows Bush and Blair on the path from 9/11 to Iraq... and explores the global fallout of the decision to invade. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
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September 18, 2020 The LA Times Teaches Us How to Elect a Sheriff
Sheriffs have a frankly _weird_ job... and a very important one. Robert Greene, editorial writer for the LA Times focusing on criminal justice, shares with us how to educate yourself to vote well for your Sheriff. We cover the history of Sherifffing in California, how elections have gone in the past, how that's changing nation-wide, and how you can do the research yourself to really understand who you're voting for. Sheriffs have a massive impact on policing policy in your county, so this year is an incredible opportunity for most of us to use the ballot box at the local level to make a difference!
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52min
September 11, 2020 Does the US Fight Rational Wars? With Richard Hanania of Columbia U
Xander and Erik are bigtime Realists--we assume international relations are fairly rational. What if this model is flawed, and even biased? Richard Hanania, of Columbia University's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, makes his case that international relations are more like politics than we Realists would like to admit. Watch Erik actively ReConsider (with considerable anguish) his entire model of global politics makes sense!
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September 07, 2020 [Special] This November, Vote for Your Sheriff!
Since the killing of George Floyd, Americans have used the soap box to demand reform to policing and the criminal justice system. In November, we will use the ballot box. But you may not even _know_ that your Sheriff is up for election, and they have a massive impact on policing in your county! On this episode of ReConsider, Xander and Erik break down why voting for your Sheriff is important in shaping law enforcement policy in the United States, how you can have an outsized impact in those elections, and why most of us don't know much about this option.
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26min
September 02, 2020 Introducing The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq
We've talked a lot about the impact of the Iraq War here on ReConsider--on the Middle East, on US foreign policy, on her domestic politics, and her allies. Season 1 of The Fault Line, out September 29, dives deep into how it happened... and how we never recovered from the consequences. Get it wherever you get your podcasts, and dive into some critical recent history of our world.
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August 28, 2020 Surely Mail-In Voting or Trump and DeJoy Will Rig the Election... Right?
Mail-in voting will lead to massive fraud and allow the Democrats to steal the election.
Er, I mean: DeJoy's elimination of USPS sorting machines will disrupt voting this year so much to let Trump steal the election.
Which conspiracy is your favorite?

Do either of them hold water? Xander and Erik explore in GREAT depth:
-Historical voter fraud in the United States
-The risk of voter fraud with larger-scale mail-in voting
-What DeJoy is actually doing at the USPS
-How that compares to past Postmasters General
-Whether anyone is actually in a serious position to steal the election
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1h 35min
August 10, 2020 Xander appears on Perch Perspectives with Jacob Shapiro
Xander recently appeared on the Perch Perspectives podcast, with Jacob Shapiro. Xander and Jacob have worked together as geopolitical analysts and consultants for a number of years, and recently Xander joined Jacob's new company, Perch Perspectives, as the vice president of analysis. Perch consults business on geopolitical risk that, as we're seeing, is increasingly impacting the global economy in ways that we haven't seen at least for the last 30 years.
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52min
August 07, 2020 Operation Legend and the Portland Paramilitary Deployment
Paramilitary troops in Portland, Oregon, threw protesters in unmarked vans and tear-gassed so aggressively that they hit the Mayor of the city. "Operation Legend" is set to roll out to many other cities in the US--possibly whether they like it or not.

Is Portland going to be repeated in Chicago and Detroit? We give you the full story and the context to be able to rise above the (very) aggressively partisan portrayals of Portland.
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1h 5min
July 31, 2020 COVID-19: Risks Beyond the Death Rate
A lot of peoples' perspectives about Coronavirus risks center around the Case Fatality Rate (CFR). Pretty low for young folks, so you're safe, right? For both individuals and society, there are risks beyond the CFR we should know. It could save lives.
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1h 29min

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