Political Gabfest - Ghislaine
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emily and David are joined by guest host David Leonhardt to discuss the pandemic economy; a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, and the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
John J. Mearsheimer for Foreign Affairs: “The Inevitable Rivalry: America, China, and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics”
Corey Robin for The New York Times: “Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment”
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin
Mike Baker for The New York Times: “The Sisters Who First Tried to Take Down Jeffrey Epstein”t
Andrew Anthony for The Guardian: “Meet Julie K Brown, The Woman Who Brought Down Jeffrey Epstein”
Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring newsletter
Joe Sheehan’s baseball newsletter
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter
Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American newsletter
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Leah Litman for NBC News: “The Death Penalty Cases Before The Supreme Court That Could Keep Innocent People In Prison”: Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: “Conservative Justices Scoff at Maine’s Exclusion of Religious Schools From Tuition-Assistance Program”
David Leonhardt: Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite
David Plotz:: Work at City Cast; Sex Lives of College Girls
Listener chatter from Andrew Lacko: “Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and David talk about newsletters and what they do well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 9th, 2021, the Galane edition. |
| 0:12.8 | I've already mispronounced it on my previous take, Galane. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm joined, of course, by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and a professor at Yale |
| 0:26.4 | University Law School. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, I'm laughing because we just discussed how I am not a professor at Yale Law School. |
| 0:35.0 | I am merely a lecturer, and that is a very important |
| 0:38.0 | distinction. And so David is, I don't know, maybe he's libeling Yale Law School in the process |
| 0:43.6 | of his introduction. I think that's a praise for Yale Law School to think that they could have someone |
| 0:46.9 | like you professing. My goodness. John Dickerson of CBS is somewhere else. I don't know where. |
| 0:54.0 | It's okay. We have Gab Fest, |
| 0:57.1 | stalwart, David Leonhardt, who is the author of the morning newsletter at the New York Times. |
| 1:02.9 | Hello, David. You're in D.C. too, right? Yes. I am. Hello, David and Emily. It is great to be |
| 1:07.0 | back on the Gab Fest. We are so glad you're here. This week, we will talk about the pandemic economy. |
| 1:12.9 | Is it good? |
| 1:13.5 | Is it bad? |
| 1:14.3 | Is it just weird? |
| 1:15.7 | How to make sense of it? |
| 1:16.7 | Then the kind of semi-boycott of the Winter Olympics. |
| 1:21.2 | Is it good? |
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