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The Gist

The Policy Popularity Game

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, political correctness? In the interview, Mike talks to political scientist James A. Robinson about why some nations have more liberty than others and what nations can do to uphold freedom in the face of political threats. His new book, co-written with Daron Acemoglu, is The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. In the Spiel, popular policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

SO want to help you use your car a little less by hopping on your bike a little more,

0:04.6

especially for those shorter trips, like the…

0:07.6

…popping out for a pint of milk trip.

0:09.6

Or the…

0:10.8

…off to pick up the kids' trip.

0:12.4

Or even the…

0:13.8

…bride-a-nike, chippy trip.

0:15.8

And to make the swap easier,

0:17.4

every day SO is giving away an e-bike and 10,000 nectar points that you could spend on cycling gear.

0:23.2

Could you do a journey differently?

0:24.8

Search SO Thoughtful Driving to find out more.

0:27.6

See terms and conditions at SO.co.uk.

0:30.0

The following recording may contain explicit language.

0:32.9

I can't get more explicit than may.

0:35.7

Let's just say it may.

0:41.0

It's Wednesday, November 6, 2019, from slated to the gist, I'm Mike Pasca.

0:45.5

Fox News today embarrassed itself,

0:47.6

slash engaged in brand extension,

0:50.4

when it published an excerpt of a book by author Doug Weed,

0:54.8

writing about CIA officers in the Trump administration,

0:58.6

Weed quotes a source as saying.

1:01.4

Next thing they said was that in the previous administration,

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