Inflation Ruling the Nation (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mickey: Inflation could abate by the midterms, saving the Dems ... Bob: Congress’s inability to act meaningfully on guns is outrageous ... How the 14th Amendment could support federal pro-abortion legislation ... Does Boris Johnson’s fall reflect disenchantment with Brexit? ... Build Back Better is back ... Liz Cheney, Democratic presidential candidate? ... Bob’s somewhat intrusive gun control workaround ... Harvard’s pandemic stimulus check study ... Parrot Room preview: A Ukraine update, Blake Masters, good career news for two TNR alums, Mickey attacks Mark Leibovich, January 6, corporatism, naming names in the Epstein case, Bari Weiss gossip, Minions and TikTok, Bob saw Memorial and you didn’t, and the abortion-seeking ten-year-old story ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.4	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.3	Hey, Bob.
0:12.2	What's you holding up?
0:13.6	Oh, look, it's the year night.
0:14.9	It's the digits in 1968.
0:16.7	You must be referring to that year.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:19.2	Which I remember fondly.
0:22.0	Fondly.
0:22.8	Richard Nixon was elected.
0:24.9	Well, it's a year when everything went crazy.
0:27.7	And my original scheme for opening the show was I was going to be like vacationing because
0:34.1	it was a slow news week.
0:35.8	And then all of a sudden this shit started happening. And I realized it's not a slow news week. And then all of a sudden, this shit started happening.
0:38.2	And I realized it's not a slow news week. And people feel the society is veering out of control.
0:44.3	And every time this—
0:45.9	Which shit are you talking about? There's been a lot of shit.
0:47.8	Abe being killed. Oh, well. That's halfway around the world.
0:52.6	And Boris Johnson.
0:54.4	Well, but that's not a...
0:55.6	There's the Fourth of July shooting here in America, which happened since we last spoke.
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