Medieval Battle

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss the January 6th Commission, the return of masks and they are joined by guest Annie Lowrey to talk about the "time tax." Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Annie Lowrey for The Atlantic: “The Time Tax: Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?” Here’s this week’s chatter: John: Max Fisher for the New York Times: “Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming” Emily: The Vanishing Half and The Mothers by Brit Bennet David: Louis Maurice Botet de Monvel’s Joan of Arc series on display at the National Gallery of Art Listener chatter from Ryan Good, @RyanScGood: Gabriel Hoyle’s Twitter thread of modern presidential branding schemes If you enjoy the show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Danny Lavery's show Big Mood, Little Mood and you’ll be supporting the Political Gabfest. Sign up now at slate.com/gabfestplus to help support our work. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John discuss: Have you really read a book if you’ve completely forgotten it? Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Grace Woodruff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabbass for July 29th, 2021, the medieval battle
0:13.1	edition.
0:14.1	I am David Flots of CityCast.
0:16.1	I'm here in Washington, DC, and I'm joined, of course, by my dear friends, John Dickerson
0:24.9	of CBS's Sunday Morning Face and Nation from Connecticut.
0:27.5	Hello, John Dickerson.
0:28.5	Hello, David.
0:31.0	And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School, usually
0:34.4	from Connecticut today from New Hampshire.
0:37.2	Hello, Emily.
0:38.2	Hello, all of New England, you know, every state one at a time.
0:42.9	This week we'll talk about the January 6th Commission which got underway.
0:48.0	What can it reasonably hope to accomplish?
0:50.2	Then, vaccination rates are rising.
0:52.7	Mask mandates are coming back.
0:54.9	Vaccination mandates are coming.
0:57.0	What else should be mandated to get us out of Delta August, to get us out of the Delta
1:00.8	summer?
1:02.2	Then, the time it taxs how government wastes our time with paperwork, confusing rules,
1:09.4	other forms of onerous pointless bureaucracy, a brilliant new article in the Atlantic, the
1:14.5	author Annie Lowry will join us.
1:16.6	Plus, we will have cocktail chatter.
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