Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ

WKRP in DMZ (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Would Alex P. Keaton vote for Trump? ... Matt: The Republicans have somehow gotten even worse post-election ... Biden the centrist vs. the AOC left ... Will the media move on from Trump? ... What Trump's improved performance with minorities means for the GOP ... Matt: I hate populism ... Gaming out the Georgia special elections ...

The Facts of Life (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Reminiscing about TV theme songs of yore ... Can the GOP quit Trump? ... Gaming out how Biden would deal with a GOP Senate ... The political consequences of Biden's reasonableness ... Did America vote for gridlock? ... The Catch-22 of Trump ...

Can the GOP Quit Trump? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bill promised that Biden would win. Does he have to turn in his pundit license? ... Matt: We have been ill-served by the media and the pollsters ... Trump's attempt to shut down the count ... Bill eats crow on the Senate ... Why did the states diverge so much? ... Is Trumpism here to stay? ... Hear more on the DMZoom! ...

The Day After (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

What are the odds that Trump wins? Bill says zero. ... Why Matt is embracing epistemic humility ... Florida red, Arizona blue? ... Reviewing the Supreme Court's recent voting rulings ... Bill: We may learn something huge about Amy Coney Barrett on Monday ... Some time off from the culture war? ... Bill predicts Democrats will win back the Senate ... Matt's prediction: Lindsey Graham will lose ...

The Last Pre-Election DMZ (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Dan's essay, "How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy" ... Why so many Trump-era Daily Show–style shows have failed ... Trump the insult comic ... Dan: The way liberals and conservatives understand comedy has changed ... Stephen Colbert and Steven Crowder's different varieties of racial humor ... Trump's clownishness vs. Obama's dignity ... Remember when Trump gave a medal to a hero dog? Or was that just a joke? ... Cuties, QAnon, and the return of conservative moralizing ... What might comedy look like during a Biden presidency? ...

How Trump Ruined Political Comedy (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Dan Brooks)

Mickey’s beef with Jeffrey Toobin ... Reviewing the final presidential debate ... Parsing the Hunter Biden emails ... The case against Joe Biden (and the case against the case) ... Three models of media scandal suppression ... Maybe Rudy Giuliani is just a glitch in the Matrix ... Could the pandemic actually kill 200,000 more people this year? ... Mickey sort of almost finally says he’s voting for Trump ...

Biden Family Affairs (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Bill’s new book, The Death of the Artist ... Why the "long tail" thesis was wrong ... How did the early dream of the Internet die? ... Blockbuster consolidation in fine art ... Luck and privilege ... Is art school a pyramid scheme? ... What is to be done? Bill has some thoughts ... Will the pandemic finish off the arts? ... Wokism as a moral figleaf for careerist college students ...

The Death of the Artist (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & William Deresiewicz)

Bill’s encounter with Sacha Baron Cohen ... Why isn’t Mitch McConnell trying to pass a stimulus bill? ... Remembrance of skewed polls past ... Biden’s bipartisan bona fides ... The two Joe Bidens ... Debate advice for Trump ... So does Matt support Biden or what? ...

Debacles Every Day (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

John's new book, The Socialist Awakening ... Bob wonders: Am I a socialist? ... Why Americans under 40 are so receptive to socialism ... Revisiting John's 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority ... How Trump pushed Democrats to the extreme on immigration ... Is socialism compatible with identity politics? ... Can labor issues be addressed at the multinational level? ... Why Trump just can't change ...

The Socialist Awakening (Robert Wright & John B. Judis)

A tribute from an Israeli fan and a mea culpa from John ... The political influence of Ice Cube and Kanye West ... Shelby Steele’s new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown? ... Appeals to American honor vs. appeals to American guilt ... The effects of economic restructuring on Black social mobility ...

What Killed Michael Brown? (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)

What do Hunter Biden’s (purported) emails reveal (if anything)? ... Biden's alleged corruption vs. Trump's well-documented corruption ... Bob frets that the VP debate hurt Biden ... How Covid could tip a swing state ... Grading Biden's town hall performance ... Bob tells Biden what to say about court packing ... Would a Biden presidency be transformative? ... Is Trump's immigration crackdown making the pandemic worse? ... Mickey calls on Biden to have a "Sister Swamp-jah" moment ...

The Big Guys (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Precedent and super-precedent at the Barrett confirmation hearings ... Is a national abortion compromise possible? ... The case that could overturn Obamacare ... Matt: The idea that Barrett would be beholden to Trump is absurd ... So long, Commerce Clause; hello, taxing power! ... Was Pelosi's Wolf Blitzer outburst a strategic move? ... Are pollsters missing a hidden white working-class bloc? ... The mail vote wildcard ...

Super-Unprecedented Edition (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Glenn on the persistence of racial inequality ... Adaner on the persistence of racial inequality ... Determinism vs. individual moral judgment ... Is structural racism a real thing? ... Can exhortation change culture? ... Why Glenn prefers universal programs ... Does capitalism reinforce racial inequality? ... Contingent moments in America’s racial history ... Glenn and Adaner offer some policy solutions ...

Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? (Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani)

Liberal Bill Scher and conservative Matt Lewis meet in the rancor-free DMZ to hash out the week’s political events.

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