Month: August 2020

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The Daily Signal - Can We Be Forced to Say Something We Don’t Believe? Ask Peter Vlaming.

A French teacher at West Point High School in West Point, Virginia, was fired for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student.

Should people be forced to contradict their core beliefs just to keep a job? Can you be compelled to speak a message you don't believe in?

Caleb Dalton, a counsel with the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom who represents the teacher, Peter Vlaming, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the issues involved.


We also cover these stories:


  • Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before a House oversight committee on Monday. 
  • Riots broke out in Wisconsin following the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by police on Sunday night. 
  • Kellyanne Conway, a long-time adviser to President Donald Trump, is leaving the White House. 



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Read Me a Poem - “Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine

Amanda Holmes reads Philip Levine’s poem, “Let Me Begin Again.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Ologies with Alie Ward - Dasyurology (TASMANIAN DEVILS) with Jarrah Dale

Tasmanian devils! Quolls! Carnivores! Wait … what is a quoll? In what will become an instant-favorite new episode, Dasyurologist and Australian critter scientist Jarrah Dale joins from Down-Down Under to discuss his work at Oxford University studying the ecology of misunderstood boofy bush babes. Alie learns about everything from the Tasmanian landscape to Looney Toons to flim flam, karaoke shrieking, wallaby standoffs, the most Australian afternoon ever, Tim Tam slams, moms with the munchies, teat shortages,Tassie tumors that are shrinking populations, and more. Also: Jarrah has perhaps the best laugh ever.

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The Gist - Mistrust Your Memory

For the next week, Mike passes the mic to a few guest hosts. Today, Annie Duke, former professional poker player, cognitive scientist, and author of Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts is in the seat again.

On the Gist, remembering information.

In the interview, Annie talks to Katherine Milkman, a researcher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies behavior, about how the pandemic has thrown everybody out of their old habits and forced the creation of new ones. They discuss how sticky any of these new habits might be, and that we should be aware of how quickly we can forget all that we’ve learned.

In the Spiel, the national misremembering of truth.

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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.

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Consider This from NPR - Postmaster General Says ‘No, I Will Not’ Put Mail Sorting Machines Back

Louis DeJoy testified in front of the House Oversight Committee today. He denied ordering the removal of mail sorting machines, but also said he would not put them back into operation.

NPR's Kirk Siegler reports on how the recent slowdown in mail service is hurting Americans in rural areas — people who helped elect President Trump.

NPR's Planet Money tells the story of how the USPS got so strapped for cash in the first place. Listen to their full episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Pod Save America - “The RNC: Now, With 5x More Trump!”

The Republican National Convention lineup is heavy on Trump and light on policy, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris see their favorability rise after last week’s convention, Trump touts another unproven Covid treatment, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before Congress. Then New York Times reporter Kevin Roose talks to Tommy about Trump’s embrace of the QAnon cult.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? Feat. Adam Tooze

An economic historian and one of Foreign Policy’s “Top Global Thinkers of the Decade” discusses post-COVID-19 global economics and politics.

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.

Our guest today is Adam Tooze. Adam holds the Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History at Columbia University and serves as director of its European Institute. He is known for his books “The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order” and “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.” 

In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

  • Historical analogies for our present moment 
  • Federal Reserve policy and independence 
  • How much we should fear debt and inflation post-coronavirus 
  • How the economic and political crisis of 2020 has changed or reinforced the trajectory of the U.S., China and Europe
  • Why there is no such thing as the post-American era  


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Website: Adamtooze.com

Twitter: @adam_tooze


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Most Famous Song in the World

If there is one song almost everyone knows it is Happy Birthday to You (yes, that is the actual title of the song, even though everyone just calls it Happy Birthday). Not only has the song been sung at countless children’s birthday parties, but it has also been mentioned in Supreme Court decisions and was the subject of one of the most important copyright cases in history. Learn more about the most famous song in the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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