Political Gabfest - New, New, New Cold War
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss President Biden's G7 summit and the meeting with President Putin, McConnell’s plans to block a Biden Supreme Court nominee, and they are joined by guest Melissa Murray on what “critical race theory” is and is not.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Julia Ioffe for Tomorrow Will Be Worse: “‘Everyone Gets What They Deserve’: Biden Takes On the Putin Singularity”
Strict Scrutiny podcast
Amicus podcast
The New York Times Magazine: “The 1619 Project”
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport
Here’s this week’s chatter:
John: Elizabeth Dilts Marshall for Reuters: “Morgan Stanley Ceo to Staff: Be Back at New York Headquarters by September”; Lauren Weber for The Wall Street Journal: “Forget Going Back to the Office—People Are Just Quitting Instead”
Emily: Adam Liptak for The New York Times: “Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge”; Adam Liptak for the New York Times: “Supreme Court Backs Catholic Agency in Case on Gay Rights and Foster Care”
David: Six Months Later: Episode 22: David Plotz
Listener chatter from Leslie Camp: Doug Fraser for The Cape Cod Times: “‘I Was Completely Inside’: Lobster Diver Swallowed by Humpback Whale Off Provincetown”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 17, 2021, the new, new, new Cold War edition. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm David Flots of CityCast right here in Washington, D.C., surrounded by my pillow fort. |
| 0:20.6 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School joins me from |
| 0:25.3 | New Haven. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.1 | Hey, David. |
| 0:28.3 | And from New York City, it's John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning and Face the Nation |
| 0:33.5 | and also CBS's new streaming channel for dogs and cats. |
| 0:37.6 | And also, John Hayneson for dogs and cats. And also, |
| 0:38.1 | that's right. |
| 0:39.0 | Also, |
| 0:39.3 | the closed circuit television on the 56th Street entrance of... |
| 0:43.5 | Last week it was in the closed circuit television in the supply closet. |
| 0:46.9 | So you've expanded. |
| 0:49.5 | Well, I'm getting a bigger audience. |
| 0:51.8 | It's true. |
| 0:53.2 | I think there's carriage on a lot more, a lot more stations there. |
| 0:56.4 | This week, President Biden tries to reset America's relationship to Europe, Russia and China. |
| 1:02.6 | We will talk about that and whether anyone won the Putin summit. Then, did you hear what Mitch McConnell said about Supreme Court confirmations? |
| 1:12.3 | More importantly, did Justice Stephen Breyer hear what he said? |
| 1:16.3 | We'll talk about the state of the Supreme Court and the future of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:20.5 | Then what is critical race theory? |
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