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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Nichols: Testing the System 'Til It Breaks

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Republicans elevated fringe players who have no interest in governing, and now they don't have enough members to get the House functioning again. Meanwhile, the international bad guys are trying to break the system. Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
show notes:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/left-jewish-suffering-israel-hamas/675621/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opinion/columnists/israel-gaza-massacre-left.html

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Code at UK. We're going to the Bull Work Podcast, I'm Charlie Sykes. Man, it is Friday the 13th, and what a hell of a news cycle.

0:45.8

And of course, he needs to know introduction, but Tom Nichols is Professor Ramirez

0:48.8

at the Naval War College and now a staff writer at the Atlantic magazine and author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter

0:54.8

and his books include The Death of Expertise which I am told has an update coming this winter.

1:00.8

My apologies for bringing you on on a particularly dark and gloomy and

1:05.2

curse day, Professor. You know I hadn't thought of Friday the 13th because every

1:10.8

day is Friday the 13th now.

1:13.7

You know, I was just thinking about just the news cycle.

1:16.1

And you know, in my morning shots I was talking about, of course, you know,

1:18.6

the complete utter chaos in the House of Representatives.

1:21.4

Steve Scalise wins the vote for speaker and his candidacy

1:24.8

lasts what less than 24 hours he drops out. Every headline in America has some

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