E36. Robby Soave Hopes that Sensible Liberals Will See the Dangers of the Approach Activists are Taking

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Robby Soave is an associate editor and writer for Reason magazine and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump which investigates the shift in activist culture on college campuses since Trump’s election in 2016. He and Bridget discuss why everyone hates libertarians, the spectrum of libertarianism, how both the Left and the Right see the other side’s extreme radicalism as a reason to up their own, and the unfortunate reality that tiny fringes on both side are so loud they drown out the majority of moderates. They talk consent culture, when speech became violence, weighing the positive gains from activism versus taking it too far, and the truth about hate crime statistics.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
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0:35.0	This week we have Robbie Swave on the podcast.
0:37.6	He's an associate editor at Reason.
0:39.8	He enjoys writing about culture, politics, education, policy, criminal justice
0:45.0	reform, television, and video games. His work has also appeared in the New York
0:49.8	Times, The Daily Beast, US News and World Report, the Orange County Register, and the Detroit News.
0:56.0	In 2016, Forbes named him to the 30 under 30 list in the category of law and policy.
1:03.0	Robbie's new book came out this week.
1:04.9	It's called panic attack,
1:06.2	young radicals in the age of Trump
1:08.3	about the culture on college campuses.
1:10.8	We have Robbie Swave in the house everyone. Welcome.
1:15.0	Hello.
1:16.0	Thanks for taking the time.
1:18.0	My pleasure. This whole week I feel like it's been the East Coast sector of people who are coming through on their West Coast tour.
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