Episode 43: Deconstructing Carpeaux — with Heather Mac Donald

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

National Review

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5 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On episode 43, Charles answers a question about atheism and individual rights: "How can your belief in unalienable rights be squared with your professed atheism?" Then he talks to Heather Mac Donald about her book, 'When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.'

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode
0:04.0	Welcome to episode 43 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast.
0:27.5	Before we start, I have to register a complaint.
0:33.3	Last week, I made it clear that if you live in Nebraska, you were to listen to this podcast a day later than everyone else.
0:44.4	And some of you did not follow the rules, did you?
0:49.0	I happened to know a few people in Nebraska, and some of them sent me messages about the episode on the day it
0:55.9	was released, which...
0:59.0	Look, do you want me to go to prison?
1:03.0	Since Ben Sass left the Senate, Nebraska's been cracking down on podcasts something fierce.
1:09.5	And with this accent, I don't think I would do especially well in a
1:13.4	penitentiary. What are you in for? The murderers would ask me, supplying podcasts, I'd say,
1:22.1	and that would be it. I'd be shived before I could say Matt Rule isn't a particularly good
1:26.7	coach or things considered.
1:30.0	Guys, these regulations, they're here for your protection.
1:32.6	We can't have some free-for-all arrangement under which people in Nebraska are free to listen
1:39.3	to podcasts at the same time as the rest of the country.
1:43.3	Just think what that would be like.
1:45.5	It would be chaos.
1:47.1	The Wild West.
1:49.0	A cornhusker catastrophe.
1:51.9	I'm not angry.
1:53.1	I'm not.
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