Political Gabfest - Ghislaine
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 56 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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| 0:36.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Test for December 9, 2021. |
| 0:41.1 | The Galein Edition I've already mispronounced it on my previous take, Galein. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm David Plots of CityCast. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm here in Washington, DC. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm joined, of course, by Emily Fazlon of the New York Times magazine and a professor |
| 0:55.4 | at Yale University Law School. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:58.4 | Hello, I'm laughing because we just discussed how I'm not a professor at Yale Law School. |
| 1:04.4 | I am merely a lecturer and that is a very important distinction. |
| 1:08.4 | So David is, I don't know, maybe he's slibbling Yale Law School in the process of... |
| 1:13.3 | I think that's a praise for Yale Law School to think that they could have someone like |
| 1:16.6 | you professing my goodness. |
| 1:19.4 | John Dickerson's... |
| 1:20.4 | Lecture. |
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