Slow Burn - S8 Live Announcement & Bonus Conversation
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Join host Joel Anderson and special guests for Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas LIVE in D.C. (July 25, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.)
You’ll see a live performance of an extended story from the season (spoiler: it will be a…slam dunk). You’ll hear even more insights into Clarence Thomas’ life and career—and his decades-long battle with affirmative action. And you’ll watch as Anderson gets grilled about the making of this season and what it was like to interview Justice Thomas’ mother in his childhood home.
Special guests include Thomas’ college friend Eddie Jenkins; legal scholar and MSNBC commentator Melissa Murray; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and more. (Slate Plus members will receive a discount off your purchase. Use the discount code found on the Events page in your account.)
In addition, please enjoy this bonus conversation with Joel conducted by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick for the Amicus podcast. Joel talks about Clarence Thomas’ anger issues, and what his mother really thinks of Ginni Thomas.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, it's Joel Anderson, host of Slow Burn Becoming Justice Thomas. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm here with a couple of announcements and a special conversation. |
| 0:11.4 | So, in case you missed it, just a week after our last episode, the Supreme Court voted to |
| 0:16.7 | eliminate race-based admissions in higher education. |
| 0:19.8 | Clarence Thomas was part of the majority |
| 0:21.4 | in the 6-3 ruling and wrote a concurrence attacking such admissions programs. He described |
| 0:26.5 | them as rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix. If you |
| 0:32.7 | listen to our season, you know that Justice Thomas benefited from affirmative action |
| 0:36.9 | at a few key moments |
| 0:38.0 | in his career, yet was convinced that it held him back. Now that the decision is out, |
| 0:42.9 | there's so much more to talk about, which is why we're hosting a live event later this month |
| 0:47.7 | in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, July 25th, I'll be joined by special guest, including |
| 0:54.1 | Thomas' old college |
| 0:55.4 | friend Eddie Jenkins, legal scholar and MSNBC commentator Melissa Murray, and at least |
| 1:00.9 | one senator from the Judiciary Committee. |
| 1:03.8 | And I'll be dishing out a few more juicy stories that we couldn't fit in the series. |
| 1:07.9 | There'll be music, drinks, and great conversation. |
| 1:10.6 | So if you're in DC on Tuesday, |
| 1:12.1 | July 25th, please come join us. Just go to slate.com slash slowburn live. Again, |
| 1:19.2 | that's slate.com slash slowburn live. Slate Plus members get a special discount. |
| 1:26.2 | And listen, if you can't make the live show, the next best thing |
| 1:30.1 | might be this interview I did with Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's Amicus podcast. Amicus is Slate's |
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