Some Sweet Sowell Music

 

tom_4bTomorrow’s Ricochet Podcast is the Big Brain edition with our guests Yuval Levin (do your homework and read his essay The Next Conservative Movement before listening to the show) and the totally awesome Thomas Sowell, who has some yuge issues YuvalLevin-492x328with a certain presumptive nominee that he’d like to air out in a very rare non-book pegged podcast appearance. Join us live tomorrow at 9AM PT/12PM ET or listen on your favorite podcast machine at your leisure. But do listen. And tell your friends to listen too.

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  1. Tyler Boliver Inactive
    Tyler Boliver
    @Marlowe

    I guess I’ll be taking a personal day tomorrow. I love listening to Dr. Sowell.

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  2. Aaron Miller Inactive
    Aaron Miller
    @AaronMiller

    Two great thinkers.

    I read Levin’s piece. His assessment of Trump more as an end than a beginning matches the opinion of a Trump supporter I spoke to recently. That man said he just wanted Trump to “go in there and blow it up” (figuratively, of course). In other words, he just wants someone — anyone — to smash the status quo in DC so that reasonable ideas can be considered.

    The rest of Levin’s article is a nice dream, but I don’t see why decentralization will be any more popular tomorrow than it is today.

    Colorado’s Supreme Court rejected a Christian baker’s appeal of a verdict ordering him to make cakes for gay weddings, and to “re-educate” his staff. How many Republican voters agree with the court? Even at the local level, alliances are failing.

    I’d like Levin (or others) to explain why this is the moment that decentralization and live-and-let-live politics will finally emerge. How can anyone know what opportunities or challenges will exist after a convention and election as mercurial as these?

    Hope, but hold your predictions until the old system finishes crashing. Wait for the rubble to settle before trying to clear the ground.

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  3. Don Tillman Member
    Don Tillman
    @DonTillman

    My dog wears his Thomas Sowell t-shirt proudly.

    scout_sowell

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  4. Blue Yeti Admin
    Blue Yeti
    @BlueYeti

    Don Tillman:My dog wears his Thomas Sowell t-shirt proudly.

    scout_sowell

    Do you hug him?

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  5. EJHill Podcaster
    EJHill
    @EJHill

    Blue Yeti: Tomorrow’s Ricochet Podcast is the Big Brain edition…

    Now with 25% bigger brains!

    Big Brains

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  6. Joseph Eagar Member
    Joseph Eagar
    @JosephEagar

    Levin seems to be proposing America become a multi-national state (as opposed to “melting pot” one-America nationalism).  I don’t suppose the hosts could ask him why he thinks this won’t lead to an Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian Empire type collapse?

    Levin seems to be proposing a middle position between our current situation and a sort of American EU.  That strikes me as a very unstable position to be in.

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