Political Gabfest - Go Ahead, Call It A Bailout
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss the Silicon Valley Bank bailout with David Leonhardt; Ron DeSantis coming out against aid to Ukraine; and free speech fights at elite law schools.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
William Saletan for The Bulwark: “The Ukraine Untruths of Disingenuous DeSantis”
Ken White for The Popehat Report: “Hating Everyone Everywhere All At Once At Stanford”
David Lat for Original Jurisdiction: “Yale Law Is No Longer #1—For Free-Speech Debacles”
Jordan Metzl for The New York Times: “Working From Home Is Less Healthy Than You Think”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Maurice Chammah for The Marshall Project: “The Mercy Workers”
John: OpenAI example recipe generator
David: Robyn Dixon for The Washington Post: “A Railroad Fan Photographed Putin’s Armored Train. Now He Lives In Exile.”
Listener chatter: Alex Traub for The New York Times: “Judy Heumann, Who Led the Fight for Disability Rights, Dies at 75”; Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann;
Crip Camp; The Power of 504, Judy's Heumann’s Ted Talk
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the health benefits and drawbacks of working from home.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Fest. |
| 0:16.6 | March 16th, 2023, that go ahead, call it a bailout edition. |
| 0:21.0 | I am David Plotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C., back in Washington, D.C. out of Las Vegas |
| 0:26.1 | few and joined by Emily Bazzlon of New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School |
| 0:30.9 | from New Haven. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:33.9 | And by John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time from Gotham City itself, Manhattan. |
| 0:39.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:40.7 | Here I am. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello, David and Emily. |
| 0:43.3 | This week on the Gabb Fest, the collapse and rescue sort of rescue of Silicon Valley |
| 0:48.1 | Bank. |
| 0:49.1 | We'll talk to David Lee and Hart with the New York Times about whether the global banking |
| 0:51.8 | system is on the verge of catastrophe, then Ron DeSantis describes the Ukraine war as |
| 0:58.3 | a territorial dispute that is not in the US's national interest to get tangled up in. |
| 1:04.8 | The Republican Party is having a civil war about Ukraine. |
| 1:09.5 | How will it turn out? |
| 1:11.2 | Then law schools and conservatives are having an exciting week. |
| 1:15.7 | University of Pennsylvania is trying to punish a tenured professor Amy Wax for nasty things |
| 1:20.0 | that she has said in public and perhaps also to students. |
| 1:24.1 | While Stanford University Law School convulses over the shutdown of a conservative judge |
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