This week Ant joins the Liam McCollum Show.

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The Liam McCollum Show

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The Founders established the three branches of government to provide checks on one another. But parties have come to supplant these institutions as the focus of loyalty for politicians. In this episode, we explore what the rise of parties means for our system of checks and balances.

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Economic Update

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

COVID Party

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/i-thought-this-was-a-hoax-patient-in-their-30s-dies-after-attending-covid-party

Foolishness of the Week

Upward-Thrusting Buildings

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity

Topic of the Week: Parties and Institutions

Washington’s Farewell Address

https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-farewell-address-warnings

Federalist 51

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/the-federalist-papers/federalist-papers-no-51/

Books

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This week’s bonus episode is Antony’s recent interview on Janet Mefferd Today.

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Rob McDonald returns for the second of a two-part series in which we discuss the Founding and his new book, The American Revolution.

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Misunderstanding Research

https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholar-forced-to-resign-over-study-that-found-police-shootings-not-biased-against-blacks/

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877

Faithless Electors

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-faithless-electors-can-t-go-rogue-electoral-n1231394

Foolishness of the Week

Kanye West

https://www.showbiz411.com/2020/07/06/kanye-west-used-his-presidential-announcement-as-a-lure-to-sell-merchandise-online-this-afternoon

Topic of the Week

Rob McDonald

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-american-revolution-professor-robert-mcdonalds-new-core-document-collection/

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This week, James reads the Declaration of Independence. So kick back and listen to the powerful words that proclaimed the United States and its people independent from the tyranny that was the British Empire.

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Rob McDonald joins us this Fourth of July week for the first of a two-part series in which we discuss the Founding and his new book, The American Revolution.

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Quick Hits

30 Hour Work Week?

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/06/01/adam-grant-on-how-jobs-bosses-and-firms-may-improve-after-the-crisis

Woodrow Wilson

https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/princeton-axing-woodrow-wilson-s-name-from-public-policy-school

Foolishness of the Week

L’Oreal

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/504865-loreal-will-remove-words-whitening-fair-and-lightening-from

Phil Magness on Civil War Monuments

https://www.aier.org/article/what-the-data-say-about-civil-war-monuments/

Topic of the Week

Rob McDonald

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-american-revolution-professor-robert-mcdonalds-new-core-document-collection/

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This week’s bonus episode is a continuation of James’s interview on the Check Your Bias podcast from last week.

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Clark Neily joins us to discuss policing, the origin and effect of qualified immunity, and what the courts have said about whether police have a duty to protect citizens.

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Quick Hits

Lottery Winners

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/arizona-couple-win-dollar410-million-mega-millions-jackpot-thanks-to-family-birthdays-lucky-penny/ar-BB15J25k

Invite Someone to Dinner to Berate You

https://reason.com/2020/02/04/white-women-saira-rao-dinner-regina-jackson-liberal/

Police Ordered to Turn off Body Cameras

https://reason.com/2020/06/19/san-francisco-police-were-ordered-to-turn-off-body-cameras-in-raid-on-journalists-home/

Foolishness of the Week

Minnesota Mayor Finds “Chief” Offensive

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/duluth-minnesota-mayor-remove-chief-microaggresion

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/19/minnesota-city-to-vote-on-removing-chief-from-job-titles-calling-it-a-microaggression/?utm_source=rss

The Word, “Chief”

https://www.etymonline.com/word/chief

Topic of the week

Qualified Immunity

https://reason.com/2020/05/29/the-supreme-court-has-a-chance-to-end-qualified-immunity-and-prevent-cases-like-george-floyds/

A Confederacy of Dunces

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This week’s bonus episode is of James’s interview on the Check Your Bias Podcast

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In this episode, we answer listener questions that we didn’t have time to cover in the previous listener special episode.

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Quick Hits

Deepfake

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/#3748f25d7494

https://www.instagram.com/p/BypkGIvFfGZ/

Oscars

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/movies/oscars-diversity-rule.html

Foolishness of the Week

VA Hospital

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/62-year-old-patient-missing-since-may-found-dead-va-hospitals-stairwell/EBWXDSM3IJBCLNGXOHLUYPAVYY/

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