Frames of Space
Politics discussion and stuff of that sort, hosted by Andrew Xu. Episodes air every other Thursday.
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Cassie Pritchard on Leftism versus Liberalism (opens the original)
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Cassie Pritchard is a leftist and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She recently got into an online debate with Substack writer Scott Alexander about the direction that the US should take its economy: Scott believes that the country should focus more on economic growth, while Cassie believes that the country should focus more on reducing income inequality through redistribution. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about the main differences between liberals and left
Kevin Williamson on How Politics Feels Different Now (opens the original)
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Kevin Williamson is a national correspondent at The Dispatch, and he's one of the most incisive commentators on the American right these days. His commentary covers political issues like Trump's hold on the Republican Party, foreign policy issues like NATO's changing relationship with the US, and economic issues like why taxes need to increase in the future. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about the problems with the US's federal budget deficit, why he wants to cut spending on
Jeremiah Johnson on Why Social Media Promotes Extremism (opens the original)
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Jeremiah Johnson is a staff writer at The Argument and a co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism. He is known for his commentary on social media; specifically, the effect that social media seems to be having on American politics in an age when liberalism seems to be under attack. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about which specific mediums of communication incentivize productive disagreement, why social media seems to be biased against liberals, and the effect that the onli
Ruy Teixeira on the Pitfalls of Progressive Politics (opens the original)
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Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a co-founder of the Substack newsletter "The Long View." He is known for co-authoring the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book argued that a series of structural shifts in the country, such as a growing nonwhite population and the politics of young voters, were quietly tilting the electoral terrain in the Democratic Party's favor. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about his objections to left
Dan Williams on Why We Believe What We Believe (opens the original)
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Dan Williams is a philosopher at the University of Sussex, an associate fellow at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and the writer behind the Substack "Conspicuous Cognition." His commentary often focuses on the nature of cognitive bias, tribalism, and how all of this manifests in contemporary political discourse. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how his politics have changed since his teenage years, the extent to which social media is responsib
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