Last week, I sat down with my editor Mark Sussman for another livestream. Our stated topic, inspired by a memo recently published by the liberal moderate think tank Third Way, was the political consequences of progressive language policing. But of course we ended up discussing far more than that. I’ve got about six weeks before I’m due to deliver my keynote lecture at a conference about the life and work Thomas Sowell, so he’s been on my mind. (And if you want more Sowell, check out this week’s TGS episode with Emily Skarbek.) I’ll admit that I’m feeling the pressure. I’ve got six weeks to pull together a talk that will do justice to the man and his ideas, and I don’t want simply to summarize his work or give a boilerplate account of his life. He deserves better than that, and I’m aiming to bring it.
Mark and I talk a bit about the communicative dynamics of progressive nomenclature, e.g., “chestfeeding” rather than “breastfeeding” and other awkward neologisms. Can the Democrats afford to get mired in these debates while they’re facing so much anger and dissatisfaction from their own constituency? We take comments and calls on the subject from viewers familiar and new. Scott Kushner and Robert Spruill pop in to give their views. Mark and I debate Trump and what will happen to MAGA when he eventually either cedes the stage or passes away. We talk about the Minnesota school shooter’s gender identity and what, if anything, it has to do with the awful slaughter at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. And of course, Gaza comes up.
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