REBROADCAST: Removing Donald Trump from Twitter and The Red Scare | Ben Studebaker
Release Date: 11/24/2022
CORRECTED EP: The Growing Momentum of Ranked Choice Voting | Nathan Lockwood
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CORRECTION: If you happened to download this episode and find the prior week's episode instead, apologies. This is the correct file. Nathan Lockwood of Rank the Vote discusses his journey from volunteer to Executive Director of a nationwide grassroots organization promoting ranked-choice voting nationwide and the growing momentum the electoral reform movement has seen in recent years. You can learn more about Rank the Vote at www.rankthevote.us For additional commentary on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for YDHTY's email list at www.ydhty.com
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How Expanding Immigration Could Tame Inflation | Gordon Hanson
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Gordon Hanson of the Harvard Kennedy School discusses how increasing the number of work visas issued for skilled and unskilled labor could help curb the short-term problem of inflation while ensuring the US economy remains competitive over the long-term. America Needs More Immigration to Defeat Inflation, an article Gordon co-authored with Matthew J. Slaughter of Dartmouth, can be found here: For additional commentary on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for YDHTY's email newsletter here: www.ydhty.com/news
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The Election of Kevin McCarthy and the Perils of a Non-Governing Government
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With Kevin McCarthy's victory as Speaker of the House secured after 15 tries and a series of concessions, Data Mike joins Dan to discuss the implications this could have on regulation and the global economy as we continue to grapple with the nation's debt.
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Nationalism, Race, and American Party Politics | Leonie Huddy
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Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a party once based on free markets and multilateralism pivoted to a more nationalistic approach to immigration, trade, and military alliances. In this episode, Leonie Huddy discusses how - despite the fact nationalist sentiment has declined in the US over the last 20 years - a mix of political opportunism and economic conditions have led to the adoption of nationalist policies by the GOP. Leonie's paper, The Rise of Populism in the USA: Nationalism, race, and American Party Politics, can be found here: For a summary of this episode and...
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A New Year Message from Your Host
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A short review of what we've learned in 2022, and what's in store for 2023.
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REBROADCAST: Political Polarization and the Federal Budget. How Rising Interest Rates Could Hurt Us All. | Maya MacGuinaes
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In this rebroadcast (originally published in Feb 2002), Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget discusses how an inherently political process for allocating federal funds combined with an increasingly contentious political climate has put the United States in a fiscally dangerous situation. You can learn more about the CFRB at https://www.crfb.org/ For commentary on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for YDHTY's email list at https://www.ydhty.com
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Political Polarization and Income Inequality | Nolan McCarty
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(NOTE: This episode was republished due to a flaw in the original file. Apologies if your were among the afflicted) Income inequality has been blamed for the rise in populism and political polarization over the last decade, but is the link causal or coincidental? In this episode, Nolan McCarty of Princeton University explains the evidence linking income inequality with polarization, and how this trend began long before the rise of the Occupy Movement, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump. You can find Nolan's study here: For a write-up on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for...
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The Connection Between the Energy Supply and Political Polarization | Carey King
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Carey King of the Energy Institute of the University of Texas at Austin discusses how the last 80 years of American history have shown a connection between energy consumption, economic output, and political polarization. Carey's book, The Economic Superorganism, can be purchased here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-50295-9 For additional commentary on this episode and other issues of the day, sign up for YDHTY's email newsletter here: www.ydhty.com/news
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Nuclear Power: The Accidental Death of a Zero Carbon Energy Source | Mark Nelson
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Almost 80 years ago, the world discovered a carbon-free way to generate vast amounts of energy via nuclear power. While it remains the most reliable source of zero-carbon electricity, it's barely mentioned in conversations around combatting climate change. In this episode, Mark Nelson of Radiant Energy Group discusses how a mix of market forces, government interventions, and resistance from the environmental movement stopped nuclear's rise, and how current government interventions in the energy market continue to work against nuclear energy while simultaneously reinforcing our dependence on...
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REBROADCAST: Removing Donald Trump from Twitter and The Red Scare | Ben Studebaker
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The removal of Donald Trump and other prominent conservatives from social media platforms prompted cries of censorship from the right. Elon Musk's decision to reinstate these figures on Twitter has prompted similar pushback from the left. In this episode (originally published in August of 2021) Ben Studebaker discusses the parallels between the current debate over speech on tech platforms and what America saw during the Red Scare, and how our reaction to Americans embracing controversial ideology is to suppress the ideas, rather than address the issues that led people to embrace them in the...
info_outlineThe removal of Donald Trump and other prominent conservatives from social media platforms prompted cries of censorship from the right. Elon Musk's decision to reinstate these figures on Twitter has prompted similar pushback from the left.
In this episode (originally published in August of 2021) Ben Studebaker discusses the parallels between the current debate over speech on tech platforms and what America saw during the Red Scare, and how our reaction to Americans embracing controversial ideology is to suppress the ideas, rather than address the issues that led people to embrace them in the first place.
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