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Toby Young
British journalist and formerly Director of the New Schools Network, a free schools charity. Toby is also the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an account of his "stint" in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, and a columnist at The Spectator. He served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef and co-founded the West London Free School. He’s a newly minted editor Associate Editor At Quillete.com
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This week we're talkin' midterms and one very short term. England has been especially interesting these last few months, and we're always happy to have Toby Young with us. He has much to say about the lightning-fast deterioration of Liz Truss, and the Conservative Party that may go down with her. Then Jim Geraghty returns to breakdown this peculiar midterm cycle. He gets into Fetterman, Oz, Walker, Abrams, O'Rourke and a few local races. Steve Hayward fills in for a jet-lagged Peter. He, James and Rob chat about the big semiconductor restrictions the Biden administration and they have a great time laughing at the greenies who can't even get VW to submit to their demands.
- Hosts:
James Lileks
Rob Long
Steve Hayward
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Ricochet
September 2022
Today we cover breaking news and the hardly recognizable past. Toby Young joins at the top to to tell us about his personal experience with PayPal's shot at free speech. Later, our old pal Troy Senik returns to give Grover Cleveland the reassessment he deserves. (Get a copy of Troy's book here!) Peter, James and Charlie (Rob's sub for the day) chew over the FBI given whistleblower Kyle Seraphin's allegations; and they have thoughts on the Biden administration's dilemma in announcing that the pandemic is over.
- Hosts:
Charles C. W. Cooke
Peter Robinson
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July 2022
December 2019
August 2019
April 2019
This week, the audacity of grope -- can Uncle Joe survive the woke warriors? We (along with Bethany Mandel who sits in for Peter) ponder that question with our guest, Commentary's Christine Rosen. Also, have the Democrats gotten too far out over their skis with the Mueller Report? Survey says...YES. And what the heck is going on across the pond with Brexit? We call on Quillette's Toby Young to explain it all to us (and more important issues like Megan Markle's lack of popularity). Finally, Bethany (home) schools us on her NYT piece on the politics of measles immunization. It's a very...sharp conversation.
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Bethany Mandel
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December 2018
This week, the finer points of cast iron skillets, Yorkshire pudding, and oh, yes, the burgeoning French revolution, courtesy of Claire Berlinski in Paris, the state of Brexit with Toby Young in London, and the demise of the Weekly Standard in Washington D.C. with our hosts, who have been reading it from day one. Music from this week's podcast: Murder By Numbers by The Police
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July 2018
This week, we visit with Republican candidate for Senate in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Beth Lindstom, who's running a valiant attempt to unseat someone by the name of Elizabeth Warren. No idea who she is. Then, our old friend Toby Young stops by to discuss his recent experience with the digital pitchfork and torch mob on the internet and what we ought to do about it (do read his fantastic essay on this topic on Quillette.com, The Public Humiliation Diet and buy his books that are discussed on the show). Also, the Cohen tapes, the roaring economy, and is there life on Mars? Hope so, because we feel like moving there. Music from this week's show: Life on Mars by David Bowie
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Jon Gabriel