Picking Up the Gauntlet Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus Jul 29 + show topics What lies ahead for the Kaus juggernaut The Arizona immigration law and Democratic jujitsu Mickey: Journolist was a contrarianism-killing private eating club Bob accuses the Weekly Standard of McCarthyism Ex-candidate Mickey indicts Dems’ campaign finance bill The new and improved Ann Coulter Ultimate Navel-Gazing Edition Matthew Yglesias & Ross Douthat Jul 28 + show topics How the Citizens United ruling freed Matt from his shackles The real secret of Journolist Matt: The Daily Caller is just lying about Journolist Ross: The conservative media is raking the wrong muck Could a GOP Congress ever cut deals with Obama? Ross disputes the idea that Congress is broken Commenter Court: Consequential Edition Robert Wright & Aryeh Cohen-Wade Jul 28 + show topics A tough new policy on flame wars What about Commenter Court with a real live commenter? Profiles in Commenter Courage Aryeh awards Aryehs, Bob challenges Glenn Beck On moral authority and Nazis Is Bloggingheads ideologically balanced? programs Communitas Science Saturday The Week in Blog UN Plaza Values Added WikiLeaks and Afghanistan Spencer Ackerman & Joshua Foust Jul 28 + show topics Has WikiLeaks put innocent lives at risk? Josh: Julian Assange has a dangerous, hypocritical mindset Does the Taliban have heat-seeking missiles? A lesson in economics, brought to you by the Taliban The Afghan cop who moonlights as a bus boy A smaller, better way to provide security for Afghans Under the Wreckage Will Wilkinson & Ann Althouse Jul 27 + show topics Re: Shirley Sherrod, Ann defends taking things out of context Do we deserve to know what was on Journolist? Are ordinary people becoming savvier media consumers? Will fears the national security-industrial complex Does Obama think that victory in Afghanistan is impossible? Ann’s and Will’s tips for summer road trips Secrecy and Transparency Julian Sanchez & Stewart A. Baker Jul 26 + show topics WikiLeaks Afghanistan documents: much ado about nothing? Julian’s case for more transparency in journalism and government Does the Freedom of Information Act do more harm than good? Stewart lambastes WikiLeaks for irresponsibility WaPo’s big national security series as “lima bean journalism” Julian vs. Stewart on oversight of the intelligence community It’s Hot Tim Fernholz & Conn Carroll Jul 25 + show topics Tim: Progressives should love the Dodd-Frank bill Conn is pessimistic that regulators have really learned Are community banks happy with this bill? The politics of extending the Bush tax cuts Tim vs. Ross Douthat on race at elite colleges Is the New Black Panthers case a scandal or no big deal? Science Saturday: Computers, the Universe, and You Anthony Aguirre & Scott Aaronson Jul 24 + show topics Mind-blowing paradoxes of anthropic reasoning The cosmological constant and the limits of computation How to build the coolest possible computer Is the universe a computer? Newtonian mechanics: weirder than you thought What to say about what’s beyond the observable universe The Week in Blog: Boorish Miscreant Edition Bill Scher & Conor Friedersdorf Jul 23 + show topics Is there any legitimate defense of Andrew Breitbart? Conor on Journolist: Not a conspiracy, but still troubling News media agonistes: traffic vs. substance Will the right refudiate the war against the “Ground Zero mosque”? Do ideological flamethrowers hurt their own side? Why the left is rallying so hard around Elizabeth Warren Natural Law Robert Wright & Robert P. George Jul 23 + show topics Natural law vs. utilitarianism Why exactly is friendship good? Euthanasia and human dignity Are natural law adherents naturally on the right? Bob tries to convince Robby to kill a child for the greater good The morality of drone strikes A Half-Hearted Onslaught Timothy Noah & Byron York Jul 22 + show topics Shirley Sherrod and the out-of-control news cycle Tim vs. Byron on the credibility of Fox News Tim: Journolist was a bad idea from the start The case against extending unemployment benefits The stupidity of the Kagan hearings Is the Tea Party unsustainable?

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bjkeefe: Censorship! or, the new BhTV tagline? 

graz: A telling slip. 

listener: FDR: The real Miracle Worker. 

Simon Willard: I think I learned a new word. 

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JonIrenicus: Ah, the left. 

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osmium: I know a few slow libertarian creeps myself. 

uncle ebeneezer: Paper speaks louder than words. 

Stapler Malone: Sarah Palin FTW! 

johnatthebar: Rossism in a nutshell. 

uncle ebeneezer: Forget number crunching... this is "hard ass" personified. 

propagandhi: George Johnson would make a great politician. 

listener: The final word on Saddam Hussein, by John Horgan. 

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