Podcast appearances and mentions of Conor Friedersdorf

From February 15, 2014: Last November, the University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have come across his articles in The Atlantic well know. Ritika Singh edited the podcast version of the debate for length and got rid of the introductions and audience questions. It thus proceeds as four speeches: Ben and Conor each give opening remarks, in that order, and then each responds to the other. While the back-and-forth touched on the legal issues behind targeted killing, it was really about the many ethical implications, both positive and negative, of U.S. drone policy. These range from the precedent the United States sets in the international community, to the psychological effects of drones on civilians. In a discussion that can often focus on the big issues of civilian casualties, oversight, legality, and sovereignty, these other questions can get lost in the foray. But as Al Qaeda continues to morph and the United States struggles to define the boundaries of the war it has been fighting, they are more important than ever.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Atlantic Magazine staff writer Conor Friedersdorf about an alarmingly censorious government bill that would allow officials to punish Canadians for things they haven't done yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Když papež František nedávno tweetoval o sociálních nerovnostech, Jordan Peterson opáčil: „Na vašich řečech není nic křesťanského. Spása je záležitostí individuální duše.“ Mnozí kanadského psychologa a emeritního profesora torontské univerzity napomínali: „A kdo jste vy, že okřikujete papeže?“ Je pravda, že Peterson není církevní činovník, na druhou stranu bychom stěží hledali druhého člověka, který ke studiu bible přitáhl tolik lidí, jako se to podařilo kanadskému psychologovi svými videi na YouTube. Petersonova reakce byla typická: prý se dnes příliš málo hovoří o individuální odpovědnosti, naopak každý utrousí něco o sociálnu, druhých či solidaritě. Autorka podcastu Tereza Matějčková ukazuje, že kanadský psycholog netvrdí, že by rovnost nebyla důležitá otázka. Naopak ukazuje – i na základě vlastního výzkumu násilnosti – že nerovnosti jsou problém. Tam, kde jsou všichni více méně bohatí, je málo násilnosti; stejně tak, tam, kde jsou všichni více méně chudí. Naopak tam, kde existují hluboké statusové rozdíly, častěji zavládne i násilí. Peterson však míní, že by nás to nemělo vést k touze rušit rozdíly, natož prohlašovat za výlučného viníka kapitalismus. Svou tezi ilustruje na tzv. Paretovu pravidlu. To říká, že se osmdesát procent důsledků zakládá na dvaceti procentech příčin. Pozoruhodné je, že to platí nejen v lidském světě. Osmdesát procent vší masy je koncentrováno do pouhých dvaceti procent nebeských těles. Osmdesát procent obyvatel žije ve dvaceti procentech měst. A v České republice platí, že osmdesát procent majetku vlastní nejbohatších dvacet procent lidí. Poukazem na Paretovo pravidlo, případně na tzv. Matoušovský princip – „komu je dáno, tomu je přidáno“ – Peterson neříká, že se s nerovnostmi nemá nic dělat. Ale uvědomění si faktu, že se jedná o zákonitost překračující společnost, může být podstatné pro otázku, co s těmito rozdíly dělat Proč útočit na papeže? Peterson má za to, že snaha převyprávět křesťanství do sociální nauky vede ke ztrátě poselství. Navíc je symptomem nedůvěry kněží vůči křesťanskému příběhu. Vždyť Bůh své nejoblíbenější kolikrát staví proti společenství a vyzývá je, aby šli do neznáma. Nejdůležitější je rozhýbat se – pak vám pomůže Bůh, anebo, jak říká kanadský psycholog, serotonin, který je odměnou za aktivitu. Kapitoly I. Úvod: Umíme slyšet, co Peterson říká? [Začátek až 11.30] II. Emeritovaný psycholog, psychoterapeut a YouTuber [11.30–27.35] III. Kdo žije podle příběhů, žije intenzivněji. [27.35–31.50] IV. Humrové, hierarchie, štěstí [31.50–50.40] V. Neheroizujme selhání. Pozoruhodný je jen úspěch. [50.40–59.45] VI. Když kněží ztrácejí důvěru ve svaté texty [59.45 až konec] Bibliografie Fritze Breithaupta, Das narrative Gehirn, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2023. Conor Friedersdorf, Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Saying?, in: The Atlantic, 22. 1. 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/ Kateřina Mahdalová, „Data odhalují, kolik veškerého majetku v Česku patří skupině nejbohatších“, in: Seznam Zprávy, 16. 1. 2024, https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/fakta-data-odhaluji-kolik-veskereho-majetku-v-cesku-patri-skupine-nejbohatsich-243496 Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism, in: Channel 4 News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54 Jordan Peterson, Mapa smyslu. Architektura přesvědčení, přel. Jindřich Veselý, Praha: Argo, 2023. Jordan Peterson, 12 pravidel pro život, přel. Aleš Drobek, Praha: Argo, 2019. Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Toronto: Random House of Canada, 2018. Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy. Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, New York Penguin Random House, 2024. Andreas Reckwitz, Musíme se nově naučit pracovat se ztrátami, 23. listopadu 2023, in EchoPrime, https://echoprime.cz/a/HtrzX/musime-se-naucit-nove-pracovat-se-ztratami.

Conor Friedersdorf, a California-based staff writer for The Atlantic, joins us to discuss his recent article, "A Uniquely Terrible New DEI Policy." In it, he dissects controversial new diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates at California's community colleges, the largest higher education system in the U.S. These policies are not only sparking lawsuits but also raising questions about academic freedom and First Amendment rights. As Friedersdorf navigates this complex landscape, he sheds light on the historical context, the intentions behind the policies, and their broader societal implications.

On October 14, a week after Hamas's attacks in Southern Israel, Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer for The Atlantic, wrote an article entitled, “Students for Pogroms in Israel”; the sub-head was “By excusing murder and kidnapping, activist groups have already changed campus politics in America.” Conor joins Mark Oppenheimer to talk about how, exactly, he thinks campus politics have changed.

"Diversity", "Equity", & "Inclusion" are seemingly separate principles. However, the terms have been lumped together, co-opted by an industry of professionals, and implanted bureaucratically in Corporate America. With expensive "DEI Consultants" renting themselves out to companies, and "DEI Executives" occupying lofty (and expensive) positions at major corporations, no one seemed to ever ask the question "Does any of this stuff actually work?". Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic has taken a deeper look at companies scrutinizing these programs (and personnel) and starting to wonder if they're getting their bang for their buck.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 94: Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts have exploded on the scene in the past few years. After the 2020 killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, many companies and organizations decided it was time — perhaps past time — to confront racism and inequality head on. This led to the creation of an entire industry, which critics have called the DEI Industrial Complex. A recent article in The Atlantic by Conor Friedersdorf titled “The DEI industry needs to check its privilege,” examines the time and expense many organizations have devoted to this topic, which some say are at best useless and at worst counterproductive. Host Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss the opportunities and pitfalls with DEI training in public and private workplaces.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In recent years, we have seen the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry explode in popularity and prevalence. But Tara's guest today says that at its worst, DEI runs from useless to counterproductive. And he thinks companies would be better off giving the lavish DEI consulting fees directly to the poor. Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a Substack newsletter that highlights exceptional non-fiction writing. Last week, he published a piece at The Atlantic titled “The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege.” Lean Out will be off on our annual summer hiatus for the next few weeks, but we'll be back at the end of June with more conversations with heterodox writers and thinkers from around the world.  You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

We've made it to episode 5 of the Polite Conversations Aftershow! This is where you get to hear behind the scenes content of everything and anything to do with Polite Conversations/Woking Up/Twitter Spaces …with guests that are exclusively patrons of the show! Joining me for this one, is Linguist Dr. Caitlin Green. (@caitlinmoriah) We had a lot of laughs discussing recent anti-woke-sphere absurdities, hypocrisies and outrages. Roald Dahl, Oompa Loompas, ‘corporate wokeness', trad wives & much, much more! We chat about Pinker's use of the phrase ‘Primitive Word Magic', about Scott Adams and his recent racist outburst … We also discussed Jordan Peterson's attempt at poetry, and that was as fun as you're imagining it to be. —————————————————— Links & References: Jokes about Conor Friedersdorf are referencing this tweet: https://twitter.com/caitlinmoriah/status/1629883194542817282?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw Catch our previous episode here: Linguistics of Slurs https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjIwNjczMjAxMS9zb3VuZHMucnNz&episode=dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMTA1ODI3MDQzMQ%3D%3D You can try this link for our twitter Space that Caitlin mentioned, but twitter is very spotty these days and sometimes the link works, other times it does not. (I believe, Twitter Spaces only work on your phone) https://twitter.com/nicemangos/status/1590763991688970240?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw Peterson anti-abortion ‘gotcha' thread: https://twitter.com/nicemangos/status/1629363205150498818?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw Peterson mad at public service messages: https://twitter.com/nicemangos/status/1629281946097385472?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw Peterson mad at paper towel dispenser: https://twitter.com/nicemangos/status/1628465693866831876?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw —— Subscribe via Patreon.com/NiceMangos for the full episode

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comCathy is a libertarian journalist and author. She's currently a staff writer at The Bulwark, a columnist for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Reason magazine. She has written two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, and Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood. We talk about how her life under totalitarianism informed her views on the war in Ukraine, and the authoritarian illiberalism in the US. She cheered me up a bit.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app — though Spotify sadly doesn't accept the paid feed). For two clips of our convo — whether Russians actually support the war in Ukraine, and the gaslighting from liberals over woke extremism — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: how Soviet indoctrination of Cathy started in elementary school; the closet dissidents in her family; the members who were sent to the Gulag; Cathy reading banned books and hearing jokes against the Soviet leader; dissidents like Solzhenitsyn who became strong nationalists and imperialists; today's horrors of the Wagner group and trench warfare; possible end-games over Ukraine; the US partisan flip over Russia; CRT in Florida schools and elsewhere; DeSantis and illiberal government overreach; the pushback from FIRE; Chris Rufo; the wokeism in red states; mandatory DEI statements; and Cathy's optimism toward the woke threat based on her living through the fall of Soviet totalitarianism. Next week is the vegan activist John Oberg who will try to convince me to give up meat. Browse the Dishcast archives for a discussion you might enjoy (the first 102 episodes are free in their entirety). As always, send your feedback and guest recommendations to dish@andrewsullivan.com.Here's a listener on last week's convo with philosopher John Gray on the threats to Western liberalism:Really enjoyed your conversation — or should I say, your conversational tango — with John Gray. The urge to explain, teach and to understand propelled both of you forward. How interesting to listen as you figured out when to break into the other's conversational riffs (waiting for the occasional breath). There was not a hint of competition — “hey, it's now my turn!” — the sort of thing you hear in quasi-debates with ideological foes (necessary though they may be). There is much pleasure, downright fun, in exercising good, free, spirited talk.I have been reading John Gray for years, and you can even call me a fan. I love to read him even if he writes the same book or essay, thematically speaking, year after year, updated to suit the events of the day. He insists on telling us in acres of print that we shouldn't be fooled by the illusion of progress. Things haven't gotten much better, morally speaking. We humans concoct one belief after another to make us feel better, or superior. Be it worshipping sky gods or Karl Marx (or Ayn Rand), we fragile creatures are always trying to imagine what we're most definitely not. Gray does a good job of stripping us of our sense of agency. Reading him over the years I often want to fling his books out the window and take to bed.So I've wondered over the years why I still keep reading him and subjecting myself to his scolding critiques of our collective nonsense. Is it masochism? There's plenty of that going around. You both end up by invoking, inadvertently, the Nike swish slogan, “Just do it!” Forget optimism or pessimism. They don't do any good. Just get on with it, Gray tells us. Be buoyed by the spirit of conversation.Another listener touches on Trump:Great conversation as always. I even begrudgingly appreciate the scrambling that I must do to look up people, words, ideas, and events to fully engage in your valuable work.On your point that Trump “was a weapon used to bludgeon the people that were not listening to them” (around the 48 minute mark): after nearly four decades of the working-class's frustrations for being ignored on a bipartisan basis, Fox News, conservative talk radio, and associated media must be mentioned. They collectively acted as both an accelerant and misdirector of the long simmering and justifiable anger. Only then could President Trump become the chosen weapon. Senator Sanders could also have been the weapon — an absolutely more appropriate but likely less effective weapon.Another suggests a future guest:I was struck by what you wrote here: “We'll air a whole host of dissents to my Ukraine column next week, when I'll also be discussing the topic with dedicated war-supporter, Cathy Young, on the Dishcast.” Young doesn't need me to speak on her behalf, but I suspect what she really supports is victory for Ukraine and a just peace, not the kind of occupation that Ukrainians (like Estonians and so many others) remember too well. Supporting people who are fighting for their freedom, their culture, and their lives, is not the same as being a war-supporter.I enjoyed your verbal jousting with Anne Applebaum, so I'm really looking forward to your conversation with Cathy Young. Have you given thought to including a Ukrainian voice, maybe someone like Olesya Khromeychuk? A Ukrainian voice from the in-tray is posted toward the bottom of this post, along with more dissents over my writing on the war. Another plug for the pod:George Packer recently wrote a piece entitled “The Moral Case Against Equity Language,” which was just brilliant. I would love to hear a conversation between you and Packer.Good idea. More recommendations from this listener:Please read the interview with Vincent Lloyd by Conor Friedersdorf and the Compact essay that sparked it. It's very considered and still sensitive to the goals of the social justice movement. I'd be extremely excited to hear Lloyd on the Dishcast. He changed my thinking and I think he would bust you out of your rut of talking about social justice to people who you largely agree with.In a similar vein, Lulu Garcia-Navarro recently had an interview with Maurice Mitchell — the head of the Working Families Party — on how the left is cannibalizing its own power. Again, a very considered approach from the social justice perspective that I found very instructive. Here's what Michelle Goldberg recently wrote about him:Mitchell, who has roots in the Black Lives Matter movement, has a great deal of credibility; he can't be dismissed as a dinosaur threatened by identity politics. But as the head of an organization with a very practical devotion to building electoral power, he has a sharp critique of the way some on the left deploy identity as a trump card. “Identity and position are misused to create a doom loop that can lead to unnecessary ruptures of our political vehicles and the shuttering of vital movement spaces,” he wrote last month in a 6,000-word examination of the fallacies and rhetorical traps plaguing activist culture.I've yet to read Mitchell's essay, but it's on my list. Please consider having him as a guest as well. I've been a fan and subscriber to the Dishcast for a while, and I'm thinking that the social justice debate you're having has gotten stale. I think both these guests would spark new thoughts, new directions, and new challenges.Thanks. Another turns to gender issues:I just watched your appearance on Bill Maher's podcast. I loved it. Your sincerity and sadness about how gayness is getting twisted into some kind of bigotry was very apparent.  There's one thing I think you should have told Bill. It isn't just gays who have a “bigoted genital preference.” Straights also have “bigoted genital preference.” If Bill doesn't want to have sex with a trans woman, he's a bigot. It's a mystery to me why ANYONE would want to have a physical relationship with someone who would find that experience repulsive. But of course, as you said, it's all about control. And shaming — suggesting that there's something wrong with you for not finding their body type attractive.Another Dishhead writes:I saw your tweet about the drag show for babies and toddlers. I just want to share my own experience with you.

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Chloe Valdary, the head of Theory of Enchantment. They discuss the way that her program differs from other comparable initiatives, what it hopes to achieve, and how it uses pop culture to better encapsulate its themes.   References   Chloé Valdary on How to be a (True) Antiracist from The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk   Can Chloé Valdary Sell Skeptics on DEI? by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic

From February 15, 2014: The University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a familiar voice in the anti-drone camp, as those who have come across his articles in The Atlantic well know. I edited the podcast version of the debate for length and got rid of the introductions and audience questions. It thus proceeds as four speeches: Ben and Conor each give opening remarks, in that order, and then each responds to the other.While the back-and-forth touched on the legal issues behind targeted killing, it was really about the many ethical implications, both positive and negative, of U.S. drone policy. These range from the precedent the United States sets in the international community, to the psychological effects of drones on civilians. In a discussion that can often focus on the big issues of civilian casualties, oversight, legality, and sovereignty, these other questions can get lost in the foray. But as Al Qaeda continues to morph and the United States struggles to define the boundaries of the war it has been fighting, they are more important than ever.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nancy and Sarah tackle the curious case of Frank Langella, the celebrated actor fired from Netflix's Fall of the House of Usher after a young actress complains about an on-set interaction, while Fred Savage gets disappeared from The Wonder Years reboot for “abusive behavior,” though we're not sure what kind. On the Depp-Heard beat, Nancy and Sarah consider body language in the courtroom, “mutual abuse,” the problem with psychiatric diagnoses, and why women are the most complicated characters. Sexy selfies are discussed, but not enough (future episode!). Meanwhile, the fire over Roe v. Wade keeps raging, but Sarah finds hope and wisdom in another podcast, and Nancy has a message for anyone who thinks motherhood is the end of freedom.Also, Sarah rewatches Citizen Kane, prompting the memory of Orson Welles commercials for Ernest & Julio Gallo wine, though it turns out to be Paul Masson, but we're not sure Welles remembered that either:Episode notes:Conor Friedersdorf's The Best of Journalism Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannOrson Welles on Woody Allen, Elia Kazan, Jean-Luc Godard, etc. (twitter thread)Dorothy Comingore, exiled actress from Citizen Kane (Wikipedia)Wanderer by Sterling Hayden“Fired by Netflix, Frank Langella Refutes Alleged Allegations of ‘Unacceptable Behavior.'” (Deadline)“Netflix's Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash” (Hollywood Reporter)“It's Official: Linguistic Intent No Longer Matters at The New York Times” (Matt Welch, Reason)“The disturbing story behind the rape scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, explained” (Vox)“CBS Studios' ‘Last Tango in Paris' Series to Focus on Maria Schneider's Perspective on Controversial Production” (Hollywood Reporter)Nick Wallis on Depp v. Heard (YouTube)“Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and the harmful logical fallacy of ‘mutual abuse'” (Lux Alptraum, Think)“Legally, Dirty, Blonde” podcastFleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner The Unspeakable Podcast, with Meghan Daum: “The future of abortion: Frances Kissling on Moving Forward in a Post-Roe World”“How Dare They!” Andrew Sullivan, Weekly DishChristopher Hitchens' “The Poison Chalice” (YouTube)Corrections: Did Justice Alito perform abortions? Not according to WikipediaCheryl Tiegs, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit editionOutro song: “Starry Eyes” by The Records This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com/subscribe

It's stunning how quickly the world's monetary systems are being converted into tools to control people and nations. N.S. Lyons says just say no to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). The volatility of our times makes me very grateful for anyone who can bring light and peace to those around them. Barry Brownstein reminds us that thank you is a better mantra than follow the science. As if we don't have enough on our plates right now, there are two coming issues that will have to be addressed--food scarcity and food inflation. Things have been set in motion that could make the next two years very challenging. There's a strong sense that the U.S. and Russia are already at war with each other, albeit an economic war. Michael Snyder explains how that conflict has shifted into overdrive and where we're vulnerable. It should be self-evident that suppression of opposing speech or ideas is a poor way to make the case for your ideals. Conor Friedersdorf says tolerating Covid misinformation is better than the alternative. The steps being taken by the people in power seem to point to a deliberate effort to implode the world economy. But for what purpose? The Good Citizen has a great take on world economic controlled demolition. The question of U.S. connections to biolabs in Ukraine is being spun in a lot of directions. Dr. Robert Malone has some thoughts on the matter that you might find worth considering. www.thebryanhydeshow.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Questions? Comments? Just want to say hi? Fill out this form, we'd love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/ptxqzoi4oBNeFdmr8This week we're with pastor Brandon Clements from Midtown Lexington to talk more about this week's sermon.Columbia “You'd Rather Be Here” Local SpotlightEudora Farms - 219 Salem Ln, Salley, SC 29137Resource mentioned:“How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm” by Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic - hereFor Our Good Always sermon series - Downtown | Lexington | Two NotchAudio engineering by Andrew Miles

Questions? Comments? Just want to say hi? Fill out this form, we'd love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/ptxqzoi4oBNeFdmr8This week we're with pastor Brandon Clements from Midtown Lexington to talk more about this week's sermon.Columbia “You'd Rather Be Here” Local SpotlightEudora Farms - 219 Salem Ln, Salley, SC 29137Resource mentioned:“How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm” by Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic - hereFor Our Good Always sermon series - Downtown | Lexington | Two NotchAudio engineering by Andrew Miles

What do Denmark Vesey, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Barber have in common? Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, to find out how these people worked within the church forming the foundation of the fight for social justice in America. Learn how the Black/African American church from its earliest founding to its modern incarnation continues to see, say, and confront systemic racism. Like what you hear? Please give us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1528399551 Your 5-star rating will help us promote more content like this. Citations “Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years,” The Conversation, June 17, 2020 https://theconversation.com/black-religious-leaders-are-up-front-and-central-in-us-protests-as-they-have-been-for-the-last-200-years-140136 Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game,” Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times, June 10, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/us/politics/politics-religion-liberal-william-barber.html “Young Black Christians see churches' social justice programs as failures, seek greater activism,” Danae King, The Columbus Dispatch, March 1, 2021 https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/03/01/social-activism-not-prayer-young-black-christians-seek-church/4540077001/ “The Black Church,” American Experience, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-black-church/ “This Far by Faith,” Denmark Vesey, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/denmark_vesey.html “Thugs and Terrorists Have Attacked Black Churches for Generations,” Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, June 18, 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/thugs-and-terrorists-have-plagued-black-churches-for-generations/396212/ “Where Today's Black Church Leaders Stand on Activism,” John Eligon, The New York Times, April 3, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/mlk-church-civil-rights.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carol-francois/support

Jamie Wheal is an expert in peak performance and leadership, specializing in neuroanthropology - the intersection of culture, biology and psychology. He is the co-author of the global bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Stealing Fire, and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of ultimate human performance. Since founding the organization in 2011, it has gone on to become a leading voice of evidence-based peak performance, counting award-winning academics, legendary professional athletes, special operations commanders, and Fortune 500 business leaders among the hundreds of thousands of people in its global community. ​On this podcast, Jamie discusses the “meaning crisis” that we’re suffering as a society, with fundamentalism and nihilism filling the vacuum. He offers a blunt and eye-opening perspective on where we are today as a culture, why it’s so hard to make sense of the world, and how our efforts to cope are likely making things worse. Jamie explains how best to bring about healing, inspiration, and connection, so we can wake up, grow up, and show up for a world that needs us all. Jamie’s upcoming book, Recapture the Rapture, is set to release on April 27, 2021. Here’s the outline of this interview with Jamie Wheal: [00:00:28] Book: Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind, by Jamie Wheal. [00:00:51] Book: Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal. [00:01:22] Jamie's journey: music, mushrooms, mountains, and marriage. [00:10:10] Narcissism in the spiritual marketplace. [00:13:57] A meaning crisis. [00:17:22] Book: Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection, by Harold Bloom.  [00:24:01] Article: The Rise of Victimhood Culture by Conor Friedersdorf. [00:24:10] Book: Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell. [00:25:08] Books by Christopher Ryan: Civilized to Death and Sex at Dawn.  [00:34:37] Podcast: The Postmenopausal Longevity Paradox and the Evolutionary Advantage of Our Grandmothering Life History, with Kristen Hawkes. [00:40:32] Neuroanthropology + cultural architecture. [00:41:33] Nitric Oxide. [00:43:12] Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.  [00:46:22] Healing, inspiration, and connection. [00:47:31] 5 forces: respiration, embodiment, sexuality, substances, music. [00:52:23] Book: Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. [00:53:49] Dr. Nicole Prause. [00:56:10] Psychedelics. [01:08:02] The importance of self-organizing groups. [01:08:41] Where trauma and talent intersect. [01:11:36] Recapture the Rapture website. [01:12:27] Get the audible version of Recapture the Rapture. [01:12:50] Stay awake, build stuff, and help out.

The Atlantic writer says that illiberalism and the urge to shut down debate need to be confronted across the political spectrum.

"Can Chloé Valdary sell skeptics on DEI?" by Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic (January 31, 2021) (http://bit.ly/3oYTWrf) "All individuals are complex and multifaceted. If we treat any human being, any group of people, as a conglomerate, we run the risk of stereotyping them, reducing them, in our words and in our actions, and turning them into an abstraction... That's not going to be helpful or sustainable for anyone. We have to treat each other like family." - Chloé Valdary References: Chloé Valdary (https://twitter.com/cvaldary) Theory of Enchantment (https://theoryofenchantment.com) Martin Buber (http://bit.ly/3tuLvaf) Dr. Jane Shore (https://twitter.com/shorejaneshore) Dr. Michael Lipset (https://twitter.com/LASTNAMELIPSET) Dr. Kaleb Rashad (https://twitter.com/kalebrashad) Conor Friedersdorf (https://twitter.com/conor64) Connect: Twitter (https://twitter.com/mjcraw) Website (https://www.mjcraw.com) Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)

In this episode of New Ideal Live, on the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate discuss the ideal of “color blindness” and its relation to the struggle against racism. Among the topics covered: The meaning of the ideal of “color blindness”;Whether this ideal promotes blindness to injustice;How emphasizing awareness of color differences aggravates tribalism;Why inherited skin color and culture should not be packaged together or regarded as objects of shame or pride;Whether the concept of “race” is valid;Why cultural achievements are caused by chosen values, not “race”;Why racism is empowered by determinism;How to combat racism in one’s own thinking;How today’s intellectual culture encourages racist thinking;Whether there is such a thing as “systemic racism”;Whether there is such a thing as “cultural appropriation”;How our culture can deal honestly with questions about racism. The discussion analyzed two articles critical of the idea of “color blindness,” “Colorblind Ideology Is a Form of Racism” by Monnica T. Williams in Psychology Today and  “Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive” by Adia Harvey Wingfield in The Atlantic. Also referenced were contrasting perspectives in “The Left's Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far” by Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic and Ayn Rand’s essay “Racism” from her book The Virtue of Selfishness. This podcast was recorded on January 18, 2021. Watch or listen to the discussion below. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here. Podcast audio:

Will impeachment and deplatforming backfire as weapons against Trump? ... Meta-deplatforming: the big-tech attack on Parler ... Bob: Twitter's explanation for deplatforming Trump is pathetic ... Big tech's overwhelming ability to regulate speech online ... Whataboutism and the Capitol Hill rioters ... Two competing justifications for impeachment ... Trump's disloyalty to his followers ... The pandemic's role in destabilizing American politics ...

Will impeachment and deplatforming backfire as weapons against Trump? ... Meta-deplatforming: the big-tech attack on Parler ... Bob: Twitter’s explanation for deplatforming Trump is pathetic ... Big tech’s overwhelming ability to regulate speech online ... Whataboutism and the Capitol Hill rioters ... Two competing justifications for impeachment ... Trump’s disloyalty to his followers ... The pandemic’s role in destabilizing American politics ...

In this week's episode, Jesse addresses an ugly rumor about him posted to Blocked and Reported's Apple Podcast review page. Then the hosts discuss Conor Friedersdorf's article in The Atlantic, "Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart," which centers around the accusation that it was racist for a white man to bounce his friend's black baby on his lap during a Zoom call (really!). In the episode's main segment, Katie unspurls the yearslong battle between Cliff Mass and seemingly every progressive in the Seattle metro area, which recently culminated in his media-gig firing after he made an..................... unfortunate comparison on his personal blog. Also: Jesse does a rim-rocking dunk, the hosts discuss a potential cargo-shorts-related spinoff podcast, racist babies are denounced, and Katie unspurls the story of how she was blacklisted from a Seattle radio station. Show notes/Links: The Atlantic: Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/) The Stranger: Cliff Mass Says Whatever He Wants (2011) - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) KIRO: UW Prof. Cliff Mass called racist for opposing carbon tax initiative (2011) - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) The Stranger: Cliff Mass's Responses to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 (https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158) The Stranger: Cliff Mass Blames Liberals for the Lack of Progress on Climate Change - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change) The Stranger: The Culture of Harassing and Demeaning Women Scientists - https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The University of Washington Should Not Censor Faculty Social Media - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html) KNKX: KNKX Public Editor report: science, politics, and Weather with Cliff Mass - https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass (https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A City in Fear Can Be Restored - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html) KNKX: KNKX to stop airing Weather with Cliff Mass, effective immediately - https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately (https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately) Cliff Mass Weather Blog: My Firing at KNKX - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html) Petition trying to get Mass fired from his job as a professor - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit)

In this week's episode, Jesse addresses an ugly rumor about him posted to Blocked and Reported's Apple Podcast review page. Then the hosts discuss Conor Friedersdorf's article in The Atlantic, "Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart," which centers around the accusation that it was racist for a white man to bounce his friend's black baby on his lap during a Zoom call (really!). In the episode's main segment, Katie unspurls the yearslong battle between Cliff Mass and seemingly every progressive in the Seattle metro area, which recently culminated in his media-gig firing after he made an..................... unfortunate comparison on his personal blog. Also: Jesse does a rim-rocking dunk, the hosts discuss a potential cargo-shorts-related spinoff podcast, racist babies are denounced, and Katie unspurls the story of how she was blacklisted from a Seattle radio station.Show notes/Links:The Atlantic: Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart -  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism/615424/ The Stranger: Cliff Mass Says Whatever He Wants (2011) -  https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 KIRO: UW Prof. Cliff Mass called racist for opposing carbon tax initiative (2011) -  https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 The Stranger: Cliff Mass's Responses to Women Scientists Make Seattle's Climate Change Discussions Toxic - https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cliff-mass-says-whatever-he-wants/Content?oid=8309158 The Stranger: Cliff Mass Blames Liberals for the Lack of Progress on Climate Change -  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/10/06/25457183/cliff-mass-blames-liberals-for-the-lack-of-progress-on-climate-change The Stranger: The Culture of Harassing and Demeaning Women Scientists -  https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The University of Washington Should Not Censor Faculty Social Media -  https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-university-of-washington-should-not.html KNKX: KNKX Public Editor report: science, politics, and Weather with Cliff Mass -  https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-public-editor-report-science-politics-and-weather-cliff-mass Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A City in Fear Can Be Restored -  https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html KNKX: KNKX to stop airing Weather with Cliff Mass, effective immediately -  https://www.knkx.org/post/knkx-stop-airing-weather-cliff-mass-effective-immediately Cliff Mass Weather Blog: My Firing at KNKX - https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html Petition trying to get Mass fired from his job as a professor -  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIZgiqt1wkyOdx369sSJeIPFoQ8Wr-RA3wKZzJ5uxHU/edit  This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

Conor Friedersdorf is a California-based staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rank punditry and eggheadery dominate the docket today as Matt Continetti joins Jonah on a mournfully swampy day in D.C. From Biden huddling in his basement to William F. Buckley Jr. naming his boat “Splendid Isolation,” the guys go backward from politics today to politics yesterday in a convention of nerd-dom, spiced up by mentions of Klingon weddings and Dungeons and Dragons. Show Notes: -Andy Kessler’s WSJ piece on June 1 being Trump’s official downfall date  -Nate Cohn on a tiny but influential portion of American voters  -A squirrel with bubonic plague in Colorado -Chris Wallace interviews Trump (transcript)  -In which Jonah references Albert Jay Nock’s preference to living in Belgium over the United States  -Conor Friedersdorf’s list of conservatives to follow on Twitter, scroll for associated bashing and criticism  -Conservatism as an Ideology, by Samuel P. Huntington  -What is Conservatism?  -George Nash:  -Bob Novak’s The Prince of Darkness -Gabi.com/Remnant to stop overpaying for your insurance  -ExpressVPN.com/Remnant for 3 months free off a 12-month plan  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

El periodista Conor Friedersdorf habló en Mañanas BLU de la polémica sobre el narcotráfico, luego de conocerse que la producción de cocaína está disparada en el mundo.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can find links to each of Sean's analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning April 5.

On today's Bulwark Podcast Conor Friedersdorf joins Charlie Sykes to discuss President Trump's executive order on social media, the decline of Rush Limbaugh, and Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Special Guest: Conor Friedersdorf.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism- How Startups Think About Failure + Survival - Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives- Forging Societal Truth - Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously- Why Journalist Hate The Valley- Believing Half of What You Read- Epistemology Algorithms - A Feature Set for Fixing Journalism - Looser ArgumentsRecorded: May 14th 2020Published: May 25th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64)Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism- How Startups Think About Failure + Survival - Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives- Forging Societal Truth - Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously- Why Journalist Hate The Valley- Believing Half of What You Read- Epistemology Algorithms - A Feature Set for Fixing Journalism - Looser ArgumentsRecorded: May 14th 2020Published: May 25th 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(00:00-09:56): As some churches in Chicago reopen despite the governor's stay-at-home order, protesters on Sunday said in person services are causing high risk to neighbors. (09:56-19:30): There’s a debate about whether or not to re-open things, specifically churches. Brian and Ian shared an article by Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic who is calling to take everyone’s point of view seriously. (19:30-29:13): Gregg Harris is the President of Thru the Bible. He joined Brian and Ian to talk about Dr. J. Vernon McGee’s verse-by-verse study of the Bible, and the impact the COVID-19 outbreak has had on their ministry. (29:13-38:38): Customers have begun noticing “COVID-19 surcharges” on their bills at some restaurants across the U.S. Brian and Ian talked about what that will mean for businesses moving forward. (38:38-49:25): Are there things we could be doing to brighten people’s day during the darkness of the COVID-19 outbreak? Brian and Ian shared Mandy Smith’s piece on creating “holy mischief” (49:25-59:58): Are the “Left” and “Right” all that different? Brian and Ian shared their thoughts on a Tweet by Dan White Jr. (59:58-1:10:42): Brian and Ian took a break from the COVID-19 talk and other bad news to share some stories from the Good News Network (1:10:42-1:17:55): Brian and Ian’s “Weird Stuff We Found on the Internet”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Monday, May 18, 20204:20 pm: James McConkie, the attorney for the family of slain University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, joins Rod to discuss new developments in the case that show a University Police Officer showed explicit photos of McCluskey, which she provided as part of her report to the police, to coworkers and downloaded them to his personal cell phone4:35 pm: Connor Boyack of the Libertas Institute joins Rod for a conversation about the Privacy Protection Act which would put an oversight mechanism in place to ensure the public’s privacy prior to the approval of any new government tech6:05 pm: University of Utah Law Professor Teneille Brown joins the show to discuss whether a new state law prompted by the coronavirus pandemic goes too far in protecting businesses in the state6:20 pm:Conor Friedersdorf, Politics and National Affairs Writer for The Atlantic joins the program for a conversation about his recent piece about why skeptics of the government shutdown should be taken seriously6:35 pm:Cheryl Chumley, Online Opinion Editor for the Washington Times joins the program for a conversation about how the Democratic Socialists in America are silently cheering about the economic situation the pandemic is causing in the country

Air Date 4/12/2020 Today we take a look at the way mass incarceration is coming back to bite the US as jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers are becoming Petri dishes for the coronavirus that will help perpetuate the pandemic as well as non-virus related deaths throughout the population. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 MEMBERSHIP ON PATREON (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) EPISODE SPONSORS: Clean Choice Energy SHOP AMAZON: Amazon USA | Amazon CA | Amazon UK SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Prisons and Jails Are a Coronavirus Time Bomb - Deep Background with Noah Feldman - Air Date 3-24-20 Homer Venters, the former Chief Medical Officer for the NYC Jail system, says that we need to stop the spread of coronavirus in prisons, jails, and detention centers. Ch. 2: Former ICE Director: Release Immigrants from Detention or COVID-19 Will Spread Like Wildfire Inside - Democracy Now - Air Date 3-23-20 Alarm is growing about the safety of more than 37,000 people held in immigrant detention centers and private jails that contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, where it is nearly impossible to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Ch. 3: Coronavirus Behind Bars: Crisis In New York Part 1 - News Beat - Air Date 4-8-20 Rikers Island now has more than 200 coronavirus cases and recorded its first COVID-19-related death last weekend. Advocates warn that anyone held in the jail is in mortal danger. Ch. 4: COVID-19 and the border - The Weeds - Air Date 4-7-20 Dara, Jane, and Matt on the intersection between the pandemic and Trump's border crackdown. Ch. 5: Donate to the National Bail Fund Network & Demand to #FreeThemAll via @bailfundnetwork - Best of the Left Activism These community bail funds are freeing people by paying bail and bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention. Ch. 6: No Hierarchy of Humanity Part 1 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-20-20 Tom Jawetz and Emily Galvin-Almanza on the steps leaders need to take to reach the nation’s 5,000 prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities. Ch. 7: Dispatches from People Stranded in Place - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 4-3-20 WNYC Investigative Reporter Matt Katz brings us calls from inside immigration detention centers. Ch. 8: The Emergency in Our Jails - Social Distance - Air Date 4-8-20 Everyone is being ordered to social distance. Except those who are being ordered into places where that’s impossible. Jim and Katherine talk with Conor Friedersdorf about what can be done. Ch. 9: No Hierarchy of Humanity Part 2 - Off-Kilter - Air Date 3-20-20 Tom Jawetz and Emily Galvin-Almanza on the steps leaders need to take to reach the nation’s 5,000 prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities. Ch. 10: When Epidemics Collide: Coronavirus, Criminal Justice & Poverty Part 2 - News Beat - Air Date 3-24-20 Advocates say marginalized communities are going to suffer the worst from the consequences of a broken economy, neglect, and a decaying social safety net. VOICEMAILS Ch. 11: Reverse seasonal affective disorder - Arkle Ch. 12: This too shall pass - Annie from Florida FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 13: Final comments on hidden Negative Visualization and the elephant in the room Limerick of the day from @Libericks TAKE ACTION Donate to The National Bail Fund Network's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund Find other ways to help and get involved through the hashtag #FreeThemAll  EDUCATE YOURSELF Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 (Prison Policy Initiative) Detaining the Poor (Prison Policy Initiative) Rikers Reports Its First COVID-Related Prisoner Death (NY Mag: Intelligencer) Andrew Cuomo Has Learned Nothing From the Coronavirus Catastrophe at Rikers (NY Mag: Intelligencer) Fear Among Immigrant Detainees Spreads As Coronavirus Outbreaks Hit ICE Detention Centers (Buzzfeed News) Immigrant detainees in Massachusetts are fighting to be released in the pandemic (Vox) 'Terrified of dying': Immigrants beg to be released from immigration detention as coronavirus spreads (USA Today) Researched & Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  The Spinnet - Castle Danger Derailed - The Depot When We Set Out - Arc and Crecent Rapids - Grey River Minutes - Pacha Faro Waltz and Fury - Macrame Gusty Hollow - Migration Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE: "Prison is No Place for a Pandemic" by: Micah Bazant (@micahbazant), Artist in Residence @fwdtogether   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Facebook!

Everyone is being ordered to social distance. Except those who are being ordered into places where that’s impossible. Jim and Katherine talk with Conor Friedersdorf and former public defender Maya Ragsdale about what can be done.

GUEST: Conor FriedersdorfStaff Writer @ The AtlanticDESCRIPTION:- Patreon-only Preview- Chapo Trap vs Conor- An Underreported Attack in Jersey City- Afghanistan Mea Culpa- Something About Impeachment- Reauthorize Every War, Every Year- Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration- Complicated Brexit voters- Gesture politics- The Paternalism of Blooombergism- The Pronoun Talk- Civility, Without Obsessing Over IdentityRecorded: December 17, 2019Published: December 18, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

GUEST: Conor FriedersdorfStaff Writer @ The AtlanticDESCRIPTION:- Patreon-only Preview- Chapo Trap vs Conor- An Underreported Attack in Jersey City- Afghanistan Mea Culpa- Something About Impeachment- Reauthorize Every War, Every Year- Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration- Complicated Brexit voters- Gesture politics- The Paternalism of Blooombergism- The Pronoun Talk- Civility, Without Obsessing Over IdentityRecorded: December 17, 2019Published: December 18, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello, everybody! I'm Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism. Today, I'm speaking with Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer for the Atlantic, who has been navigating the fractious divides within the conservative movement since long before 2016. Friedersdorf is extremely hard to pin down. His intellectual hero is Friedrich Hayek and he believes the Supreme Court “ought to thwart the will of democratic and legislative majorities.” He’s also staunchly anti-war, an outspoken critic of police brutality, and has even occasionally praised Bernie Sanders. This is what makes Friedersdorf so interesting to talk to: He doesn't fall neatly along partisan lines. We discuss a lot here: the importance of police reform; the way the term “racism” is used and misused in American politics; the future of the GOP; and what it means to be politically homeless in Trump's America. References: "A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?" by Jane Coaston, Vox "What Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism" by Conor Friedersdorf, the Atlantic Book recommendations: The Authoritarian Dynamic by Karen Stenner Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Subscribe toToday, Explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/911-skyscape.png) Bob critiques an article by Conor Friedersdorf, in which he mocks the right-wing outrage over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 9/11 remarks as a tempest in a teapot. Why, if someone on the right made a similar slip of the tongue, Friedersdorf would expect the right-winger to be forgiven. This is of course ludicrous nonsense, as Bob explains. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Conor Friedersdorf’s article (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/ilhan-omar/586993/) on Omar being taken out of context. “The God of Social Media Demands Sacrifice, Not Mercy” ( episode 21 (https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/ep-21-the-god-of-social-media-demands-sacrifice/) of the BMS). Bob’s Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Murphy#Skepticism_of_Evolution) (showing something actually taken out of context). Information for contact Bob directly (https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/contact/) for details.) Information for contact Bob directly (https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/contact/) for details.) Help support (http://bobmurphyshow.com/contribute) the Bob Murphy Show. The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media (http://podsworth.com) .

Should rules govern demeaning, disparaging, and degrading speech directed at certain groups? How can we resist hate while protecting free speech? Nadine Strossen, longtime president of the ACLU, says hate speech, as painful as it may be, is justifiably protected. Instead of censoring hate speech, she advocates fighting it with free speech. In her conversation with Conor Friedersdorf, staff writer for The Atlantic, she dispels the idea that censorship effectively counters the impacts of hate speech. Strossen is the author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship. Show Notes Listen to Joshua Johnson's conversation with Imam Khalid Latif. It's part of our Off Stage series on spirituality. Follow Aspen Ideas to Go on Twitter and Facebook. Email your comments to aspenideastogo@gmail.com. The views and opinions of the speakers in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.

In this episode from the archive, we discuss dueling takes on whether the rise of democratic socialism in DSA and elsewhere is Taking Democracy Too Far (from friend of the pod Conor Friedersdorf) or is Actually, Harming Democracy (from other friend of the pod Sheri Berman). Apologies for the holiday break, but we've got another special interview coming up this weekend, keep your eyes peeled!

Senior politics reporter Jane Coaston joins Dara and Matt to debate the “identity politics” backlash and the prospects for pluralism. References and further reading: Bari Weiss' piece on the 'intellectual dark web' Conor Friedersdorf's piece on how the left fuels the right's bigotry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Friedersdorf recently argued in The Atlantic that in this moment, when the truth is bitterly contested, fiction presents us an opportunity. It allows us to step into another person’s perspective and talk about gray areas without the problems of detailing an actual person’s private moments. But does blurring the lines between truth and fiction undermine the messy complexities of the real world? David Sims and Megan Garber join to discuss the spate of recent pop culture that aims to recast reality. Links - “‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction” (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, The New York Times Magazine, June 28, 2016) - “Remote Control” (Sarah Marshall, The Believer, January 2014 Issue) - "Re-Examining Monica, Marcia, Tonya and Anita, the 'Scandalous' Women of the '90s" (Sarah Marshall, Splinter, April 19, 2016) - “The Crown: Netflix's Best Superhero Show” (Sophie Gilbert, December 9, 2017) - “How #MeToo Can Probe Gray Areas With Less Backlash” (Conor Friedersdorf, January 18, 2018) - “'Cat Person' and the Impulse to Undermine Women's Fiction” (Megan Garber, December 11, 2017) - “Aziz Ansari and the Paradox of ‘No’” (Megan Garber, January 16, 2018) - “Dinner Discussion” (Saturday Night Live, January 27, 2018) - “Grease Dilemma” (CollegeHumor, 2011) - Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine (Joe Hagan, 2017) - “One Day at a Time Is a Sitcom That Doubles as a Civics Lesson” (Megan Garber, January 17, 2017) - An epic 200-plus tweet thread on Janet Jackson (October 23, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have kind of a random podcast episode for you this week. I can't say that all of these articles necessarily have a common theme, but I think that there are relevant for those of us who share a Christian worldview, and I did try to bear out these implications specifically and directly in the podcast today. Enjoy! 1. The Problem of Too Many Books by Daniel Lattier from The Imaginative Conservative 2. Massive Study Finds Link Between High Screen Time and Unhappiness by Jean Twenge from Intellectual Takeout 3. Big Brother Facebook Is Watching You by K.V. Turley from Crisis Magazine 4. The 10 Habits of Logical People by Daniel Lattier from the Foundation for Economic Education 5. Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Saying? by Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic All music from audionautix.com.

As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersdorf reminded us in The Atlantic, "Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated; U.S. troops would suffer their deadliest year yet in Vietnam—and massacre scores of civilians at My Lai; Richard Nixon would be elected president; the Khmer Rouge would form in Cambodia; humans would orbit the moon; Olympic medal winners in Mexico City would raise their fists in a black power salute; President Johnson would sign the Civil Rights Act of 1968; Yale University would announce that it intended to admit women; 2001: A Space Odyssey would premier; and Led Zeppelin would give their first live performance." What does that turbulent year have to tell us in this tumultuous moment? What forgotten history is worth revisiting? And in the past half-century, where has the nation made progress, and where has it struggled? Conor Friedersdorf joins us to discuss these questions with our hosts. If you listen to Radio Atlantic, we value your feedback. Please help us out by answering a quick survey. It should only take a few minutes. Just to go www.theatlantic.com/podcastsurvey. Links – ”1968 and the Making of Modern America” (Conor Friedersdorf, January 1, 2018) –  ”Put Your Husband in the Kitchen” (Helen Keller, 1932 Issue) – “Report: Washington” (Elizabeth Drew, April 1968 Issue) – “Americans' Respect for Police Surges” (Gallup, October 24, 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conor Friedersdorf's piece in the Atlantic, entitled "Can Conservative Journalism Survive?" The Alabama Senate race for Jeff Sessions's old seat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave and Mike discuss the distinction between means and ends when it comes to thinking about how to evaluate various social movements, their goals and tactics relying on this great article by Conor Friedersdorf (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/drawing-distinctions-antifa-the-alt-right-and-black-lives-matter/538320/)

Peter, Bernard, and Marianne respond to the Nashville Statement, discuss the challenge college students face in thinking for themselves, consider whether politics and religion should be discussed at the dinner table, and have a conversation about how the Beguines, Beghards, and other communal movements have inspired the Bruderhof (part of a continuing discussion of the document "Foundations of our Faith and Calling," the Bruderhof's public account of its faith and practice). Here are some of the links and references from this episode: -Nashville Statement - https://cbmw.org/nashville-statement -'Responding to the Nashville Statement' by J. Heinrich Arnold - http://www.bruderhof.com/en/voices-blog/world/responding-to-the-nashville-statement -'Some Thoughts and Advice for Our Students and All Students' - https://jmp.princeton.edu/announcements/some-thoughts-and-advice-our-students-and-all-students -'Ivy League Scholars Urge Students: 'Think for Yourself'' by Conor Friedersdorf - https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/ivy-league-scholars-urge-students-think-for-yourself/538317/ -'Religion and Politics at the Dinner Table' by Christopher W. Love - http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/08/19790/ -Foundations of our Faith and Calling - http://www.bruderhof.com/foundations -'Activist Mystics' by Michael Martin - https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/activist-mystics 'God's Revolution' by Eberhard Arnold - https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/gods-revolution Rate us and leave us a comment on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the Bruderhof's website at www.bruderhof.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/thebruderhof Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheBruderhof Instagram: www.instagram.com/bruderhofcommunities Email: contact@bruderhof.com

A male product manager at a tech company gives his take on the Google Memo that's been a big topic of discussion in recent weeks.To bring you up to speed: a software developer at Google called James Demore wrote a memo about the company's diversity policies. This memo spread fast internally before making it's way outside Google and causing a lot of controversy, and led to him being fired by Google. Demore wrote largely about so-called scientific and psychological differences between men and women and how they explain the gender balance in tech, and provdes research to back up his claims. (See the links below for more details along with two very good articles discussing the memo.)Alec Molloy has been a product manager for the past five years, and has worked in San Francisco, London and Malmo. He talks about how in some ways the memo accurately describes the situation within the tech industry, how it's calm language is both dangerous and also something he thinks these debates could benefit more from, and what he hopes future generations will take away from the discussions about gender diversity in tech.Host: Nas aka Nastaran Tavakoli-FarGuest: Alec Molloy, product manager at a tech companyLinks: ‘The Google Memo' http://bit.ly/2ubOmpP) by James Damore  On Google's firing of Damore http://read.bi/2uMBV3c‘The email Larry Page should have written to James Damore' http://econ.st/2vMFoAP ‘I'm a woman in computer science, let me ladysplain the Google Memo to you' http://bit.ly/2uvAif6 by Cynthia Lee in Vox  ‘The most common error in the media's coverage of the Google Memo' http://theatln.tc/2vgKtCN by Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic  The Gender Knot www.thegenderknot.com

If you’ve been missing political journalism that is skeptical of the use and abuse of power on both sides of the political aisle, then you’re going to love Conor Friedersdorf. Conor is a journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, which is a … Continue reading Episode 16: Conor Friedersdorf →

Donald Trump says he will fix the Affordable Care Act in his first 100 days as president. But even he has said the job won't be easy. On this episode of Indivisible, conservative host Charlie Sykes speaks with Senate Homeland Security Committee chair Ron Johnson about whether he feels the proposed American Health Care Act will actually be an improvement on Obamacare. He’ll also weigh in on the ongoing travel ban debate, and take your calls. Senator Johnson is also a member of the Senate committees on Foreign Relations, the Budget, and Commerce, Science and Transportation. In the second half of the show, Charlie will be joined by Atlantic staff writer Conor Friedersdorf to discuss why conservatives are so often misunderstood, and why they may have the power to bring America back together. Mr. Friedersdorf is the author of the article, “How Conservatives Can Save America.” Here are some tweets from this episode: Indivisible Week 8: Why Is Health Care Such a Partisan Issue?

David Boaz joins us to recap 2016. Did we just have the worst year ever in American politics?Show Notes and Further ReadingHere’s our Free Thoughts episode on Donald Trump with Ben Domenech, recorded after Trump won the Republican primary but before he won the general election.Boaz mentions the current issue of Cato Policy Report, which features an article by Tom Palmer on the new resurgence of three threats: identity politics, populist authoritarianism, and radical political Islam.Boaz also mentions this article by Conor Friedersdorf, “Tyrant-Proof the White House—Before It’s Too Late.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Beware: Opinions ahead! In this special episode, Jen discusses who she will vote for in the June 7th Presidential Primary.   Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Podcast Awards Thank you for nominating Congressional Dish for the 2016 Podcast Awards! Please VOTE HERE every day starting on May 29th North Carolina Podcast Are you interested in co-creating a Congressional Dish style podcast about North Carolina? Email Amy Howard: ahoward at ralieghonlineradio.com Sound Clip Sources YouTube: "She’s Baldly Lying": Dana Frank Responds to Hillary Clinton’s Defense of Her Role in Honduras Coup, April 13, 2016. YouTube: Trump Campaign Event in Bluffton, South Carolina: Trump says you will find Saudi Arabia did 9 11 and no WWIII over Syria, February 25, 2016. YouTube: NBC News-YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate, January 17, 2016. YouTube: Trump on 9/11 Truth & 28 Pages CNN"s Republican Town Hall, February 18, 2016. YouTube: Hillary Clinton National Security Address, November 19, 2015. YouTube: Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders on Whether to Invade Iraq - 2002, October 2002 Additional Reading Article: CLO Debt Market Peps Up by Sam Goldfarb, Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2016. Article: How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk by Mark Landler, The New York Times Magazine, April 21, 2016. Article: How Clinton’s email scandal took root by Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post, March 27, 2016. Article: DRUGS, DAMS, AND POWER: THE MURDER OF HONDURAN ACTIVIST BERTA CÁCERES by Danielle Marie Mackey, The Intercept, March 11, 2016. Article: The Clinton-Backed Honduran Regime Is Picking Off Indigenous Leaders by Greg Grandin, The Nation, March 3, 2016. Article: THE LIBYA GAMBLE PART 1: Hillary Clinton,‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall by Jo Becker and Scott Shane, The New York Times, February 27, 2016. Article: THE LIBYA GAMBLE PART 2: A New Libya, With ‘Very Little Time Left’ by Scott Shane and Jo Becker, The New York Times, February 27, 2016. Article: The Dangerous Path Toward Mining Law Reform in Honduras by Lynn Holland, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, December 18, 2015. Article: During Honduras Crisis, Clinton Suggested Back Channel With Lobbyist Lanny Davis by Lee Fang, The Intercept, July 6, 2015. Article: The Wedding That a U.S. Drone Strike Turned Into a Funeral by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, January 9, 2014. Article: Drone Attacks at Funerals of People Killed in Drone Strikes by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, October 24, 2013. Article: Get the Data: Obama's terror drones by Chris Woods, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, February 4, 2012. Article: Honduras: President Signs ALBA Agreement by Francisco Macías, The Library of Congress, September 11, 2008. Additional Information Website: Carl Icahn Biography by Colin Dodds, Investopedia. Hillary Clinton Top Industries, federal election data 2016 Hillary Clinton Contributions by Industry, 2008 Cycle Votes: Authorization for Use of Military Force: September 14, 2001 Hillary: Yes Bernie: Yes Votes: USA PATRIOT ACT Bernie": No Hillary: Yes Votes: USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Bernie: No Hillary: Yes Votes: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Bernie: No Hillary: Yes Votes: The bank bailout Bernie: No Hillary: Yes Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations

Whoever shows up on January 20, 2017 to occupy the White House, columnist Conor Friedersdorf says its time to tyrant-proof the executive branch. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Less than 18 months ago, a cover story for the New York Times Magazine asked, “Has the ‘libertarian moment’ finally arrived?” From public suspicion of the surveillance state, to increasing tolerance for marijuana legalization, to marriage equality, to weariness with war—the article argued that after years of intellectual work, “for perhaps the first time,” libertarianism has “genuine political momentum on its side.” However, the Rand Paul presidential campaign failed to catch fire. The two breakout candidates of the presidential campaign have been a socialist and an authoritarian. The idea of tolerance seems increasingly quaint, as Mexicans and Muslims have become the target of public frustrations. And the public seems to have forgotten its weariness with war, as the Islamic State continues its brutal terrorism. Was all this talk of the libertarian moment simply wishful thinking? Or was the libertarian moment never about politics in the first place? Join David Boaz, Matt Welch, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Conor Friedersdorf for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of libertarianism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David and Tamler return to the minefield of campus politics and talk about recent events at Yale, Missouri, and Amherst. Are the protests are long overdue response to systematic oppression and prejudice? Or is this new generation of students coddled, hypersensitive, and hostile to free speech? A little bit of both? Can our hosts get through this episode without fighting?   LinksThe New Intolerance of Student Activism by Conor Friedersdorf [theatlantic.com]President Peter Salovey's statement to Yale community [news.yale.edu]2015 University of Missouri Protests [wikipedia.org]Amherst College Uprising (with list of demands) [amherstuprising.com]Vlad Chituc (@vladchituc) [vladchituc.com] 

Conor Friedersdorf and Benjamin Wittes debate the ethics of drone warfare at the University of Richmond in November 2013.

A talk with Conor Friedersdorf, staff writer at The Atlantic

A talk with Conor Friedersdorf, staff writer at The Atlantic

Tamler contemplates ending it all because he can't get 'Call Me Maybe' out of his head, and Dave doesn't try to talk him out of it. This is followed by a discussion about drones, psychopaths, Canadians, Elle Fanning, horrible moral dilemmas, and the biggest rivalry in Ethics: utilitarians vs. Kantians.   Links"Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama." by Conor Friedersdorf"Why I Refuse to Refuse to Vote for Obama" by Robert Wright.Dave's study "The Mismeasure of Morals"The write-up of Dave's study in The Economist: "Goodness Has Nothing to Do With It"