Interview with Casey Brinck. Casey is the Director of Policy and Goverment Affairs for The Secular Coalition for America. We discuss the involvement of religion in government.
Investing Skeptically: Mail bag.
Bonus audio: Christopher Hitchens
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You're Wrong About - Disco Demolition Night
Mike tells Sarah how a silly sports promotion galvanized a reactionary movement. Digressions include “Charlotte’s Web,” Jane Fonda and German-language musicals. Songs are dissected; the honor of David Bowie and late-night salad bars are defended.
Huge thanks to historians Tavia Nyong'o, Eric Gonzaba, Luis-Manuel Garcia and Gillian Frank for helping Mike with this episode!
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Links!
- Tavia Nyong'o's "I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents"
- Gillian Frank's excellent article on disco and his delightful podcast
- Luis-Manuel Garcia's alternate history of club culture and dissection of the gay left's opposition to disco
- Alice Echols' "Hot Stuff"
- Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey"
- Tim Lawrence's "Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979"
- Peter Shapiro's "Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco"
- Undone did a great episode on Disco Demolition Night
- “The Flip Sides of 1979”
- “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night,” the (fabricated) New York Magazine story that inspired “Saturday Night Fever”
- Tony Smith interview
- "Disco and The Queering of the Dance Floor"
Strict Scrutiny - Five-Dimensional Chess
Melissa talks with CNN's Joan Biskupic, author of The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.
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The Best One Yet - “70% of us have Cash-Phobia” — PayPal’s crown jewel. Molson Coors’ brew shocker. SiriusXM’s revival.
PayPal hit an all-time high after saying “cash is dead,” but Venmo’s getting all the attention. While the rest of the brew industry douses itself in hard seltzer, Molson Coors figured out how to make beer flourish in the moment. And SiriusXM is a lot like cable TV, but for audio. We hope it doesn’t accept its fate of decline, like cable has.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The U.S. Takes On TikTok
The past couple of weeks have seen some alarming developments in the U.S.-China relationship. Among them is how the United States plans to deal with the wildly popular Chinese social media app TikTok. The debate over the social giant has reached the White House and discussions of what to do about it have ranged from an outright ban to Microsoft acquiring U.S. operations of the app.
What makes TikTok a threat to national security? And what does this whole episode say about where U.S.-China relations are heading?
Guest: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, reporter for Axios and author of the Axios China newsletter.
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Short Wave - Pregnancy And COVID-19: What We Know And How To Protect Yourself
How dangerous is COVID-19 for pregnant women and their babies? The research has been scant and the data spotty. Dr. Laura Riley, the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Obstetrician-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian, explains what we know at this point and what pregnant women can do to protect themselves.
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NBN Book of the Day - Paula Fredriksen, “When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation” (Yale UP, 2018)
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians.
In When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation (Yale University Press, 2018), Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a Jerusalem-based psychologist, Middle East television commentator, and host of the Van Leer Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel.
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What A Day - USPS We Can
Disruptions and delays to the postal service have prompted concern since so many people are planning to vote by mail this year. We break down what’s behind the delay, and how to ensure your vote is counted.
Congress still can’t agree on how to structure unemployment benefits in the next relief bill. Midwestern states like Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin are emerging as coronavirus hotspots.
And in headlines: NASA astronauts safely return to Earth aboard SpaceX’s shuttle, three hackers charged in July Twitter breach, and over 750 criminal cases are under review after LAPD officers are charged with falsifying documents.
The NewsWorthy - TikTok Talks, Bracing for Isaias & Space Mission Success- Monday, August 3rd, 2020
The news to know for Monday, August 3rd, 2020!
What to know about:
- TikTok's potential future: the latest on the president's threat to ban it and Microsoft's plan to buy it
- an ongoing wildfire in California and a tropical storm on the Atlantic coast
- another COVID-19 outbreak in pro sports
- NASA astronauts' historic and dramatic return to Earth
- the arrest over the largest Twitter breach in history
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
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Sources:
Tik Tok’s American Future: NY Times, AP, CNBC, Axios, Microsoft
COVID-19 Crisis: Johns Hopkins, WSJ, Reuters, CNN, Axios
Relief Bill Negotiations: Politico, Reuters, WSJ, Axios, CNN
Marine Search Called Off: CNN, NPR, FOX News, Marines
Tropical Storm Isaias Update: AP, Axios, CBS News, Reuters
Wildfire in Southern California: LA Times, NBC News, ABC News, Twitter
U.S. Astronauts Return to Earth: USA Today, Axios, AP
Teen Charged in Twitter Hack: USA Today, The Verge, Engadget
Changes Coming to MLB Protocols: WSJ, CBS Sports, ESPN
Outbreak Hits 2nd MLB Team: CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, Tweet
NFL Head Coach Tests Positive: CNN, ESPN
Google IDing Black-Owned Businesses: Engadget, The Verge, Android Police, Google
Libraries Become Popular Amid Pandemic: Axios, NPR, KQED
Monday Monday - Big Tech Surge Amid Pandemic: AP, Reuters, WSJ
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Should Colleges Open? (with Scott Galloway)
Andy and Zach want to know if colleges are going to open, should they open, and should Zach move to campus later this month to start his freshman year. NYU Professor Scott Galloway has led this conversation with a very provocative and clear point of view. Like with almost everything in the pandemic, we see society’s pre-existing challenges exposed — in this case elitism, entitlement, privilege and how higher education needs to change.
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