Rational Security: The "2nd Anniversary Hot Take Takedown" Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott celebrated the second anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 by bringing back everyone's favorite game show edition: the Hot Take Takedown! But this year, instead of being contestants, they sat in judgment on the following hot takes from their Lawfare colleagues:
- Molly Reynolds, on whether there will be a government shutdown this month;
- Tyler McBrien, on what should happen with overseas U.S. troop deployments; and
- Benjamin Wittes, on who will be held accountable first, Russian President Vladimir Putin or former President Donald Trump.
Which of these hot takes will be deemed too cold, which too hot, and which just right? Listen in to find out!
Meanwhile, for object lessons, Alan shared one of his new favorite uses for superfluous fruits. Quinta shared just the sort of story you expect to hear out of Burning Man: alleged Jan. 6 co-conspirator and criminal defendant Jeffrey Clark casting judgment on former Deputy Solicitor General (and beanie-wearing Burning Man attendee) Neal Katyal. And Scott urged even non-vegetarian listeners to check out the new, updated edition of Peter Singer's classic work on animal rights, "Animal Liberation Now!"
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| 0:57.6 | I'm Caleb Benjamin, intern at LawFair with an episode of Rational Security for September |
| 1:10.7 | 10, 2023. For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross post this week's episode |
| 1:18.1 | of Rational Security, a podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quinto Jurassic, and Alan |
| 1:23.5 | Rosenstein, in which they cover the week's big national security news stories. Today's |
| 1:28.3 | episode is entitled the second anniversary hot take takedown edition. This week, Anderson |
| 1:34.3 | Jurassic and Rosenstein celebrated the second anniversary of Rational Security by judging |
| 1:39.3 | hot takes from their LawFair colleagues. On whether there will be a government shutdown |
| 1:43.5 | in September, what should happen with overseas US troop deployments, and whether Russian |
| 1:48.3 | President Vladimir Putin or former President Donald Trump will be held accountable first. |
| 1:53.3 | This is Rational Security. |
| 1:56.8 | Hey there, Rational Security listeners. Scott R. Anderson here with a quick note before |
| 2:03.7 | we get started. The universe decided to celebrate our two-year anniversary episode by blessing |
| 2:08.8 | us with a veritable buffet of technical issues for this recording. We got through it, |
| 2:13.4 | so the audio quality did suffer a bit. Apologies in advance. We hope you still enjoy the |
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