Political Gabfest - 20 Years Since 9/11

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

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Summary

Emily, John and David reflect on 9/11; the fight for the infrastructure agenda, and declining college enrollment among men.

Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Garrett M. Graff for the Atlantic: “After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong”

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff

Ady Barkan for The New York Times: “Home Care Keeps Me Alive. It Should Be Fully Funded.”

Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “$1 Trillion Isn’t as Much as It Sounds”

Douglas Belkin for The Wall Street Journal: “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’”

Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “How Will America Recover From a Broken School Year?”

Kevin Carey for The New York Times: “Men Fall Behind in College Enrollment. Women Still Play Catch-Up at Work.”

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan

Here’s this week’s chatter:

John: Lee Drutman for The New York Times: “Quiz: If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?”; John Dickerson for The Atlantic: “Every Dog Is a Rescue Dog”

Emily: Ben Rothenberg for The New York Times: “At U.S. Open, Teen Spirit Rules and It’s Contagious”

David: Wilson Wong for NBC News: “Original 'Blue's Clues' Host Steve Tells Millennials He Never Forgot Them. He Just Went To College.”

Listener chatter from Michael Sagmeister: Philip Oltermann for The Guardian: “‘Scholz Will Sort It’ – The Catchphrase Winning the Hearts of German Voters”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, David, and Emily discuss television’s most indelible characters in the wake of Michael K. Williams’ death.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 9th, 2021, the 20 years since 9-11 edition.
0:14.3	I'm David Blotz of CityCast. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning and Face the Nation babies. Are you
0:24.4	still hosting Face, guest hosting that? I'm not still hosting Face, but as, you know, but after my
0:31.4	foreign exchange student period this summer, I think I'm considered a trusted member of the family. Okay, that's
0:39.8	John Dickerson. And of course, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School.
0:44.7	Hello, Emily. Hey, guys. This week, it is the 20th anniversary of 9-11. How has America changed?
0:53.1	How did it change America? Then the Democratic budget and
0:56.9	infrastructure bills are on a knife's edge or a knife edge. Is it a knife's edge or a knife edge?
1:02.6	I'm not sure. Will the Biden administration get them passed? Then men are shunning college at an
1:09.6	astonishing rate. There are a million fewer men at college than there were just five years ago.
1:14.1	Why is that?
1:15.4	Plus, we will have cocktail chatter.
1:18.7	And, dear listeners, favorite time of the year, our conundrum show is coming up.
1:24.2	Every year, regular listeners, no, we spend one week just talking about important questions like
1:30.3	would you rather be a fish or a tree or should you put dirty clothes on a freshly washed body
1:36.2	or clean clothes on your filthy body and we spend an entire show delightfully reveling in that
1:43.3	usually with a great guest.
1:44.5	And we're going to do our conundrum show, of course, this year.
1:47.2	And we need your conundrums.
1:49.0	What are the things that have troubled you this year?
1:50.8	What are the puzzles you've been dealing with?
1:53.4	What are the ethical issues, the trivialities and the most serious issues that you have been grappling with around your dinner table?
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