Intellectual Agoraphobia

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, who's on the right side of less auto pollution? In the interview, Adam Gopnik is here to discuss his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, inspired by a conversation with his daughter. Who gets to make arguments? What about identity politics? And why should the rhinoceros should be the symbol of liberalism? In the Spiel, what are your go-to references? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.6	Let's just say it may.
0:10.9	It's Friday, June 7th, 2019, from Slate,
0:13.4	it's the Gist-I Micapesca.
0:15.3	The Trump administration has a plan to allow cars
0:18.6	to become so pollutive that it is being opposed
0:23.4	by those tree hugging, tofu-chugging car executives.
0:27.8	Yes, the auto industry is actually urging Trump
0:31.7	towards less tailpipe pollution.
0:35.3	He wants more.
0:37.2	Here is how NPR puts it.
0:38.8	The Trump administration is working to roll back
0:41.2	Obama-era policies calling for cars
0:43.6	to get more fuel-efficient, to fight climate change.
0:46.4	A rolling back of efficiency standards.
0:48.9	Can we just say what it is?
0:50.8	Embracing fuel-inefficiency standards.
0:53.8	It's an embrace of fuel-inefficiency.
0:56.3	And this, by the way, this is literally
0:58.2	the Trump administration stance.
1:00.2	They want more pollution.
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