Reason Writers Around the InnerTubes: Matt Welch on Bloggingheads.tv Debating Joshua Cohen on Obamacare, Prosecuting Condi Rice, and the New Foreign Policy "Realism"

July 27, 2009

Over at Bloggingheads, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch converses with Stanford University Political Science Professor Joshua Cohen about the practical and political problems with President Obama's health care reforms, the industrializing world's choices on global warming, and whether fellow Stanford PoliSci professor Condoleeza Rice might just be a war criminal.

Whole thing, at approximately one hour, at this link, or click the image below.

Comments

The Angry Optimist|7.27.09 @ 5:34PM|#

I have way too much to do to watch an hour-long debate.

TRANSCRIPT PLZKTHX.

hmm|7.27.09 @ 7:48PM|#

He seemed pretty adamant about Shika's article and a health care system that is or isn't untested.

The Shika complaint was a little militant, which fed right back into the eco-warrior mentality mentioned. He sort of shot himself in the foot on that one.

The health care argument about being untested seems pretty thin when you think that the tested systems are generally failures, or that more than one system Obama has instituted or wants to institute are questionable at best to failures at worst.

Not a bad discussion.

The "I'm teaching you" professor lecture tone and persona came out a few times, which was kind of funny.