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Back this week with the full cast and another full show. We start with a deep dive on the Bari Weiss resignation and free speech in general. Then our favorite Denmark dude, Bjørn Lomborg joins to discuss his new book, How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. and we give him a chance to rebut a very snarky New York Times review of said book. Happy to help, Bjorn. Then, our favorite health care wonk, Avik Roy (listen to his 2x a week Covid in 19 podcast — co-hosted by some guy we’ve ever heard of– for all the latest COVID news and analysis) drops by to school us why schools should stay open. Finally, yep it’s another Lileks Post of The Week, this time by Ricochet member Tocqueville, who has compiled a very good list of Bullsh*t words/expressions that have got to go! 2020 Edition. The guys add a few of their own, so please feel free to give us yours in the comments below. In the meantime, stay safe and mask it.
Music from this week’s show: Times Like These by Glen Campbell
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I’m guessing that all Yale grads have a modicum of progressivism they must exorcise just from being there.
It is synonymous. I think at this point, they are trying to avoid the connotations of “denounce.” It isn’t working.
Maybe they should try, “J’accuse!” Oh, wait, maybe they shouldn’t.
To Rob Long’s point about the Long Game I think we saw an episode a while back about the Federalist Society and how the seeds planted a generation ago are growing fruit today. Definitely a success we should try to duplicate.
I was sorry to hear that Lomborg did not mention that coal plants in Bangladesh would actually reduce their CO2 footprint… when large parts of your population are burning wood or bark or similar high carbon materials to produce heat even a dirty coal plant produces less CO2 in comparison.
Clean coal is also so cheap that it might outweigh other considerations until we get to compact nukes or whatever.
Whatever else has been said about this episode, I feel there may not be enough love for the Glen Campbell cover of “Times Like These” that plays at the end. I hadn’t heard that version before and I thought it was magnificent.
You sir, are a great American with impeccable taste in music.