If you want to run as fast as Usain Bolt, eat 100 chicken nuggets every day, says your new nutrition and exercise coach, Mary Katharine. Oh, and definitely don’t eat the food served in Beijing’s Olympic village. An update on mask wars, the second week of Joe Rogan drama making the front pages, and New York City kids go vegan on Fridays at school.
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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
07:06 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
08:25 - Joe Rogan opponents slam his past use of the N-word
14:18 - George Washington University president walks back plans to investigate a series of posters criticizing China’s human rights abuses and the 2022 Olympics in Beijing
25:47 - Mask wars update
37:15 - Ominous background caught in ski jump picture from Beijing Olympics
37:50 - Olympic athletes report poor conditions in Beijing’s Olympic village, from quarantines to insufficient meals
42:30 - 2022 Olympic viewership tanks, and Kristen Soltis Anderson has a clue as to why
46:02 - New York City mayor Eric Adams directs publics schools to go vegan on Fridays
Boris Johnson has been ticked off for misleading Parliament on jobs and on crime.
He claimed that the number of people in employment has been rising - when it?s been falling. And he made a claim that crime has fallen - when it?s risen. We discuss the truth, and what Parliament can do to defend it.
Plus, we examine the rules around testosterone and trans women?s participation in elite sport, and the spirit of Donald Rumsfeld is with us as we try to navigate the largely unknown world of fungi.
Despite the virtually unanimous agreement about his importance, describing Hirschman’s legacy and influence on others is not an easy task— arguably because he was indeed in a league of his own. His search for fresh perspectives was so eclectic that, as many have noted, no recognizable school has ever developed in his footsteps …
– Michele Alacevich, Albert O. Hirschman – An Intellectual Biography (2021)
These thoughts from the concluding chapter of Michele Alacevich’s latest book Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography (Columbia University Press, 2021), speaks to the remarkable life and scholarship as analyzed and described in the professor’s concise and stimulating book of 330 pages including notes and index. In this episode Professor Alacevich explains the significance and ongoing relevance of the interesting work of the political economist and social scientist Hirschman who was a product of the Weimar Republic, and who later became a founding member of The Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. As many listeners know, Hirschman authored books such as Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Passions and The Interests, and The Rhetoric of Reaction – just a few of his more recognizable titles as Michele discusses many others in this interview.
For instance, Professor Alacevich describes the 1977, The Passions and The Interests, as a history of ideas wherein Hirschman tried to make sense of political developments of the time in Latin America by examining the link between economic growth and dictatorship. He also talks about the 1967, Development Projects Observed, as insightful analysis that the original publisher reissued in 2015 with a Foreword by Cass Sunstein and an Afterword written by Michele even though he modestly does not mention his own contribution in this conversation.
This new book examines the ideas and scholarly debate surrounding Hirschman’s scholarly work and is a nice complement to the 2013, The Worldly Philosopher, a Hirschman biography by Jeremy Adelman. Professor Alacevich shares many interesting insights about the relevance of Hirschman’s approach today – from how the problem of democracy was a unifying theme in his scholarship including the more formal economic analysis, as well as his emphasis on how ‘doubt’ must be at the heart of a working democracy. Michele’s thoughtful analysis of Hirschman’s important ideas and works is well-worth a listen as is a reading of his engaging intellectual biography.
Michele Alacevich is a professor of Economic History and Thought at the University of Bologna, and is currently working on a history of development economics in relation to the three questions of economic growth, democracy, and environmental sustainability.
Keith Krueger lectures at the SILC Business School in Shanghai University.
The news to know for Wednesday, February 9th, 2022!
We'll talk about something most Democrats and Republicans actually agree on: overhauling the U.S. Postal Service.
Also, how large protests over Covid-19 mandates are now extending beyond Canada's borders.
Plus, Peloton's new plan to recover from a post-pandemic slump, why some Olympic athletes were disqualified over their uniforms, and which movies were nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
Andy begins this jam-packed episode by talking about Pfizer's long-awaited vaccine for kids under 5 with Julie Morita, a pediatrician and executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Then he's joined by Safe or Not Safe alumna Caitlin Rivers, who is working to establish the new Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC. Caitlin tells Andy what the group is doing to get ahead of future outbreaks and keep you safer and more informed about infectious diseases.
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This weekend's Super Bowl LVI comes as the NFL is being sued by Brian Flores, a former head coach of the Miami Dolphins who has accused the league racial discrimination in hiring practices. To discuss the lawsuit and racism in the NFL, we're joined by Tyler Tynes, a staff writer for GQ who covers the intersection between race, politics, and sports.
The nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced yesterday and Netflix’s "Don’t Look Up" is up for Best Picture. The climate change satire has been a huge hit for Netflix, though the critical response to it has been more mixed. David Sirota, who co-wrote the screenplay, joins us to talk about the movie and how the climate catastrophe gets covered in media.
And in headlines: a new Freedom Convoy blockade emerged at the U.S.-Canadian border, Peng Shuai spoke to reporters in her first sit-down interview since last year, and federal agents arrested a couple for conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.
Just over 20 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting those in China who followed the spiritual practice of Falun Gong.
Today, Uyghur Muslims face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese government. Tomorrow, more innocent lives will fall victim to suffering at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party if Beijing’s totalitarian leaders do not face consequences for those human rights abuses.
In the new film “Unsilenced,” director Leon Lee tells the true story of those who were persecuted and killed by China’s government because they practiced Falun Gong.
The film highlights the stories of those who “risk their lives and use their wisdom to find ways to counter the propaganda and fight for their freedom” in China, Lee says.
But the threats of the Chinese Communist Party extend far beyond its borders, the film director says.
It’s past time for America to recognize “that the [Chinese Communist Party] is the biggest threat the West faces,” says Leon Lee, the director of “Unsilenced.”
Lee joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss China’s human rights abuses and the danger China poses to the Western world if China’s crimes go unpunished.
We also cover these stories:
Republican leaders call on podcaster Joe Rogan to stop apologizing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells truckers to stop their protests.
The Ottawa truckers protest is neither exclusive to Ottawa nor strictly composed of truckers. And its supporters are hoping to head to a city near you.
Guest: Jesse Brown, editor-in-chief of Canadaland.
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Are we on the brink of a population explosion with untold global consequences? On the contrary, a growing number of experts argue that we are headed for a worldwide decline. Hear from Empty Planet authors John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker on how this could bring with it many benefits as well as surprising disruptions.
This recording was first released on March 5th, 2019.
Honestly, after 2.5 hours of this movie I was hoping the awakening really would happen and suck me into the middle of the planet. We discuss the cold mess that is Eternals and what this means for using planets as a means to an end.
