The Opinions: A Pro-Life Case for Harris and a Writing Contest With ChatGPT

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Our Times Opinion colleagues recently launched a new podcast called “The Opinions.” It’s basically the Opinion page in audio form, so you can hear your favorite Times Opinion columnists and contributing writers in one place, in their own voices. It’s an eclectic and surprising mix of perspectives, as you’ll see with these two segments we’ve selected for you to enjoy. The first is with the Times Opinion columnist (and friend of the pod) David French, a lifelong conservative who’s staunchly pro-life, on why he’s voting for Kamala Harris this November, and the second is with the novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, who enters into a writing competition of sorts against a new writer on the block — ChatGPT. Mentioned: “David French on the Pro-Life Case for Kamala Harris” “Can You Tell Which Short Story ChatGPT Wrote?” You can subscribe to “The Opinions” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio — or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	Today I want to share a new show from New York Times opinion. It is called The Opinions and it is the
0:06.3	opinion page of the New York Times come to life in audio. And so I want to play two I really liked here.
0:12.4	The first one is from my friend and colleague David French, The Times opinion columnist.
0:17.0	David is a very conservative guy, never voted for a Democrat for president in his life.
0:22.4	He's a very pro-life guy. But he's talking here about why he's going to be
0:26.2	casting a ballot for Kamala Harris this November. Enjoy.
0:31.6	This is the opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
0:37.0	You've heard the news. Here's what to make of it. My name is David French and I'm an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
0:50.0	I've been a conservative since the moment I started being interested in politics.
0:56.0	I was a Cold War Reagan conservative. I came of age in the 1980s and that was my political identity and for a long time it's also was my
1:06.3	professional identity I was a free speech lawyer for many years I was a pro-life
1:10.9	litigator for many years I was a pro-life litigator for many years.
1:12.8	I was a Romney delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.
1:19.8	So I was deeply embedded both in the conservative legal movement and in the Republican Party
1:28.1	itself before the rise of Donald Trump.
1:31.9	But I am for the first time in my adult life going to vote for a
1:36.2	Democrat for president in 2024. I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris.
1:42.8	Some people say I can't vote for Kamala Harris
1:45.8	because I'm pro-life and a Christian.
1:49.4	But in fact, I believe Donald Trump is harming the pro-life movement in a profound way.
2:02.0	I'm often asked if I'm still conservative. The answer is I'm voting against Trump
2:08.0	precisely because I'm conservative. That's why I'm doing it. I was a Reagan Republican because of the commitment of the parties to certain
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