Tag: Podcast

  • Thoughts on: some spot-on commentary

    Mick

    David Wallace-Wells has a fantastic and nuanced look back on the pandemic. This seems 100% in line with my feelings and memories, but most media figures forget what’s uncomfortable and remember only what they can use as a cudgel against their political foes. Speaking on the Know Your Enemy Podcast: This is based on a… Read more

  • Thoughts on: The Dispatch Podcast 2025 03-10 with Brianna Wu

    Mick

    Somebody from the Dispatch I have never heard of interviews frequent Free Press contributor Brianna Wu. Wu is an interesting person, and the Free Press (specifically Bari Weiss in round table podcasts*) typically present her as an “in the room” Democratic donor and strategist who is disaffected with the direction of the party. I am… Read more

  • Thoughts on: Honestly with Bari Weiss 2025 01-09 Podcast on England’s Rape Gangs

    Mick

    https://www.thefp.com/p/the-uk-grooming-gangs-and-the-cowardice-05e Bari Weiss moderates a discussion between Julie Bindel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Bindel is a journalist and advocate that relates an account of the events that is largely in line with what I recall of the coverage at the time. Hirsi Ali is, as I understand, more broadly an anti-Islamicist and critic of immigration… Read more

  • Thoughts on: Aaron Renn’s podcast 2024 12-23 with Musa al-Gharbi

    Mick

    Entitled “Is America Actually Woke” and covering al-Gharbi’s book. https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/is-america-actually-woke-al-gharbi Al=Gharbi is a sociologist who argues that America has experienced four cycles of ‘wokeness/political correctness’ in the last century and that the current wave began in 2011. Presumably he has some sort of quantitative measure for ‘wokeness’ — he didn’t get into it. The broader… Read more

  • Thoughts on: The Dispatch Podcast 2024 12-13

    Mick

    Somebody DIED. How DARE we discuss anything about this. Meghan McArdle seems to believe that Americans are totally fine with our healthcare system because she found some poll results. I always find it rich that a group of Never Trump conservatives think they have such keen insight into how The Left has lost the American… Read more