Politics in Question

So the recording date of these recent pods (demographics, partisanship, etc) absolutely are not when these great interviews were recorded — which is SO weird and not great. If these are previously published pods being replayed, that’s fine but they need to be marked as such (like Lawfare does) and, I’d suggest an intro/outro that does some sort of framing and/or a reflection on the pod in relationship to what’s up now.

Love it

This was a great episode that makes the listener not only think critically about the questions and arguments presented by the hosts and their guest, but also about their own position on the topics being discussed. The conversation about how our politics is strained by a group of people who not only peddle dangerous conspiracies that have no theory behind them – unlike your classic conspiracy theories about Area 51 and the moon landing – but also use conspiracies to delegitimize their political opponents was thought-provoking and necessary. But the most crucial question was the one presented by Mr. James Wallner: Is dismissing one's conspiracy-theory-peddling political opponents just another version of the delegitimization that we want to avoid? Furthermore, as Mr. Wallner alluded to: Is dismissing someone who wants to implement voter ID laws as racist the same as dismissing someone who knows that the 2020 election was secure as anti-American? As Professor Rosenblum states, one should not equate dangerous conspiracies that have no real end goal to legitimate concerns about the motives of someone who wishes to see less people vote, but these are crucial questions to ask -- our democracy will only be strengthened by doing so.

I like the way the group asks questions of their guests from the hosts different viewpoints.