The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
On this week's edition of The Reason Roundtable, Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie shout about Trump's second acquittal, Biden's latest managerial pushes, and the CDC's flop of a school-reopening rollout.
Discussed in the show:
2:27 What did we learn from impeachment?
18:53 "Bidenomics."
42:02 School re-openings.
47:35 Weekly Listener Question: Should people be granted courtesies that they themselves are not willing to reciprocate?
50:50 Media recommendations for the week.
This week's links:
- "Journalists Worried About People Having Conversations on Clubhouse," by Liz Wolfe
- "GOP tries to weaponize pandemic-exhausted parents against Biden," by Christopher Cadelago and Natasha Korecki
- "Biden Is Still Separating Families at the Border. Where Is the Media Outrage?" by Billy Binion
- "Rep. Peter Meijer: Only GOP Freshman Who Voted To Impeach Trump Tells All," by Nick Gillespie (podcast)
- "CDC's New 'Reopening' Guidance Will Keep Schools Closed in the Fall," by Matt Welch
- "The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really." by Noam Scheiber
Send your questions either by email to roundtable@reason.com or by voicemail to 213-973-3017. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
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Audio production by Ian Keyser.
Assistant production by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve.
