Midnight Train From Georgia
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss the corporate backlash to Georgia’s voting restrictions, Matt Gaetz and shamelessness in government, and they are joined by Amanda Ripley to talk about her new book High Conflict.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jonathan Rauch for the Atlantic: “How American Politics Went Insane”
Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign by Frances E. Lee
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
The Gottman Institute’s “Love Lab”
Emotions in Conflict: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Peace Making by Eran Halperin
L. M. Hartling, E. Lindner, U. Spalthoff and M. Britton for Psicología Política: “Humiliation: A Nuclear Bomb of Emotions?”
Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Míriam Juan-Torres, Tim Dixon for More In Common: “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Dan Zak for the Washington Post: “Goodbye to Gate 35x, Cursed Portal to the Rest of America”
Emily: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
David: City Cast Denver
Listener chatter from Paul John Rudoi: Passing English of the Victorian era, a Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase available at The Public Domain Review; Karen Strike for Flashbak: “Not Up To Dick: 100 Wonderful Victorian Slang Words You Should Be Using”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 8th, 2021, the Midnight Train from Georgia Edition. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C.C. I'm joined from New Haven by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University |
| 0:22.9 | Law School. Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes is back from somewhere. |
| 0:29.9 | He was gone last week doing something cool. Can you tell us what it was, John? Sure, because I think |
| 0:35.6 | we're going to talk about it in one of our topics, or talk about parts of it anyway in one of our topics, I interviewed John Boehner about his new book, his peppery new book, and his time in Congress and what's wrong with Congress today. |
| 0:49.2 | Oh, that is why we're doing that topic, I guess. |
| 0:52.4 | Well, I mean, it informs that topic, which is in news. |
| 0:55.3 | It's perfect. |
| 0:55.7 | Sure. |
| 0:56.2 | It's like we timed it. |
| 0:57.5 | Well done. |
| 0:58.4 | Minimize this Sunday on CBS Sunday morning. |
| 1:01.3 | Okay. |
| 1:02.2 | Today on GabFest Thursday evening, we'll talk about whether it makes sense for corporate |
| 1:07.6 | America to boycott Georgia in the wake of its terrible new voter law. |
| 1:13.2 | Then Congressman Matt Gates, why does politics seem to reward shamelessness so lavishly these days? |
| 1:21.1 | Is there any way to stop it? What is wrong in particular with Congress? |
| 1:24.7 | And apparently, John Dickerson had an interview with John Boehner that will |
| 1:27.8 | inform that. Then we're going to talk to Amanda Ripley about her stunning new book, High Conflict, |
| 1:33.6 | which, if you read it correctly, maybe the first piece of good news about America's Divide that |
| 1:39.4 | at least I have read in years. Maybe. Emily was sort of maybe, maybe, maybe. I was thinking about it in those terms. I |
| 1:46.7 | like that framing. Let's go with it. But hey, but before we get started, I just have to tell you |
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