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Explain It to Me

The “illiberal” right

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jane and Ezra discuss the ongoing conservative crackup and the case of Parkland teen Kyle Kashuv. Related reading: A New Consensus Kyle Kashuv Becomes a Symbol to Conservatives Who Say the Left Can’t Forgive Against David French-ism Jane’s article about David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari Against the Dead Consensus Kyle Kashuv on his Harvard crisis The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum Is the Religious Right Privileged? by Ross Douthat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.

0:07.0

As state legislatures consider more than 500 anti-trans bills, the latest episode of Into the Mix asks,

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how best to support and protect transgender youth.

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Like Olioski, a young man who, despite growing up in a loving and supportive home,

0:20.0

felt the need for friendship with other trans and queer kids.

0:23.0

At just seven years old, he took initiative and built a lasting community.

0:27.0

That story on Into the Mix, subscribe now.

0:58.0

I was saying lots of stupid things when I was 16. I said corn was good when I was 16. And I hold to that.

1:19.0

But I mean the KORN.

1:21.0

Oh, I mean the band.

1:22.0

Yeah, that bullet video is awesome.

1:24.0

It's really good.

1:27.0

Hello and welcome to the weeds on the Box Media podcast network.

1:33.0

I am as a client here with Jane Kostin. Jane has gone.

1:44.0

It's it's going okay. How are you doing?

1:46.0

I'm good. We you you do not sound as excited as I thought you were going to sound.

1:50.0

I'm I'm pretty jazzed. But also this is like attempting to explain an argument going on at a high school.

1:56.0

You don't attend to a lot of people. But I need to I need people to know like no, no, no.

2:01.0

This argument going on at the high school you don't go to is important for the high school you do go show.

2:06.0

So we are doing the podcast today that Jane Jane's whole life has been leading up to.

2:11.0

We are looking at the Catholic conservative crack up on one level with this fight between

2:19.0

Sarabamari and David French, which is a larger fight about whether or not a Catholic conservators should be committed to liberal democracy in this country or should move towards an

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