This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a be able to for being here with us today. We are arriving in your feed late because we

wanted to be able to cover the first presidential debate last night in its fallout. A

big thanks to Dylan at Studio D and for everyone who touches this podcast behind the scenes to allow us to make

this episode happen outside of our normal schedule.

It is a hard conversation that we are going to have today.

It is made harder by the fact that this morning as we've been

recording the Supreme Court has dropped some very significant new decisions. So here is our

commitment to you. We are going to cover those decisions on more to say our

premium channel we will come back in August with a recap probably of what's going

on with the Supreme Court but today we think the most important

thing that we can talk about is the presidential debate in the state of that race, and so that is

what we're going to do.

If you would like to put that debate in this race in the broader context of American history,

we feel like we have something special for you in that regard on our premium channel today,

we released the next installment of our slow read-along of

Alexis to Tocville's Classic Democracy in America.

It has just been therapeutic to me to read this book this year against the backdrop of everything happening in this

election and this most recent installment is no different. I feel like I learned a

lot that grounded me more in what people are thinking around this race.

Even if you have no desire to read the book, we get it.

We hope you'll join us on Patreon or Apple Podcast subscriptions for those conversations

about what we're learning and how it's helping us frame current events.

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