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How come Ukraine was invaded under Biden in office?

Two know-it-alls showing how little they know and how quickly they judge; politically, I tend to agree with them, but a little more modesty please. I thought Mounk has studied with Michael Sandel, but you certainly would not guess that from the way he behaves.

Do he have a email i would like to know if a family member was black Beard

He wants to deny gender affirming care to gender dysphoric adolescents. He says they should receive conversion therapy. And if conversion therapy doesn’t work, then when they’re adults, they can be eligible for gender affirming care. But conversion therapy has been shown not work, AND to be harmful Let’s grant that: Human beings typically either are big gamete producers or small gamete producers. And it might be the case that our other sex characteristics are just causes of this basic difference between us-as Byrne claims. But that doesn’t show that maleness in humans is nothing but being a small gamete producer. “Male” can be ambiguous. The cross-species meaning can be: small gamete producers. But there can be a specially human meaning: having primary sex characteristics (typically: testes, penis, vas deferens) and secondary sex characteristics (typically: facial hair, broad shoulders, deep voice), when what sex characteristics you need to have can be socially determined. If there’s a social dimension to maleness in humans, then it’s possible for someone to transition from human female to human male. Another way to make the point. We don’t need the category of male to talk about the non-human species. We can just rely on the category of small gamete producer. But we need the category of male to talk about humans. That category is different. It involves more than just (or something different from) small gamete producer. It has a social dimension. The detransitioning rate is less than 2%. That’s extremely low. It’s much less than virtually all other medical procedures. That means: 98% of gender dysphoric adolescents who go on puberty blockers, and afterwards transition, won’t regret it. If you deny them puberty blockers, you’re forcing them to go through a puberty they don’t want. Thats wrong! And it can have irreversible effects. That’s wrong!

5:57 What the forks a Chidi? And why can’t I say fork?

No, people are now more interested in studying than ever, it's just some funny beaurocrats that want to defund places of study...!!

Mf why you speak so much????? Let the guest speak

He reminds me his famous and foolish conclusion: “The End of History and the Last Man”.

Oof close missed by a smidgen on that one. And that lack of vision and once again failure to see the world from the plebs point of view is why the loss.

I’m very impressed with this guy. He’s really holding the line for moderate classical liberal view points. And he does an excellent job at explicating all of the ways why these viewpoints matter and point the way forward. If you listen to all of his lectures, you will also get a 101A survey level course in introduction to politics, history and philosophy that is very enjoyable - without overstating it. Honestly, he doesn’t cover absolutely everything but only those aspects that pertain to the ideas that preoccupy him. But those ideas are really broad in scope.

What a fantastic interview. I’m part way into the book already, and with this interview combined, I’m deeply appreciating what feels like an important, fresh, new way of tackling some of our biggest cultural challenges. Lots of gems, and in particular, I was cheering during the last ~4 minutes of the interview, which articulated a great note to end on. Thanks!

The mighty, mighty Helen Joyce! I can't hear her enough.

Thank you for this excellent conversation. Although I think very highly of Elizabeth Anderson -- whom I successfully nominated for a Corresponding Fellowship (now known as an "International Fellowship") of the British Academy -- I feel that she did not adequately answer your question about the ways in which unions can dispirit the very workers whom they're supposed to be representing. In her reply, she adverted to situations in which workplace relations are poisoned by excessive antagonism between management and unions. Such situations are not uncommon, of course, but they are not what you were talking about. You were referring instead to situations in which the unions themselves dominate and enervate the workers on whose behalf they are supposed to be striving. I am myself well acquainted with such a situation. Throughout my thirty-one years as an academic at Cambridge University in the UK, I have never belonged to the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). I have deliberately eschewed membership in the UCU, because for decades the union has been far more inclined to engage in Jew-baiting and in other noxious far-left activities than to represent British academics effectively. I think that the matter of shootings by the police is more complex than the two of you were suggesting. Blacks in the USA are indeed disproportionately the victims of police shootings, but blacks in the USA are also disproportionately the perpetrators of serious crimes such as robbery and aggravated assault. To be sure, the statistics on perpetration are based on police arrest rates, and those rates might themselves be skewed by prejudice. However, especially given that a large majority of serious crimes in the United States are intraracial, it's implausible to think that the recorded disproportion in the level of perpetration of serious crimes is due predominantly to prejudices among arresting officers. (These general considerations make less surprising the much-discussed 2019 paper by Roland Fryer in which he found that blacks are not more likely than whites to be shot in particular encounters with the police.) One thing oddly not mentioned by either of you about the police in the United States is that they are very heavily armed. Unfortunately, they have to be heavily armed because they are carrying out their roles in a country where controls on guns are so limited. In the UK, where controls on guns are much stricter, very few police officers outside special settings such as airports are armed. Largely as a result, the relationship between police officers and citizens in the UK is far less hierarchical and fraught with tension than in the USA. I noticed this difference between the two countries almost as soon as I arrived in Cambridge (as a PhD student) forty years ago.

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Frans de Waal appears to be a thoughtful and open-minded scientist and philosopher, expressing his ideas in a clear and accessible manner. Thanks to Yascha Mounk!

Chomsky made some very interesting points, but didn't seem to answer any of the questions put to him. I'm left wanting, and confused about what his actual views are. If gou can't answer a question in a straightforward manner, people will suspect the worst. Chomsky did himself a disservice in this interview.

Yes, stop infantilizing and protecting students from the messiness & complexity of the real world. What Amna says is exactly what's happening in colleges. Neither side is making a good case for training adult citizens.

Thank you for this

Quite average level… I was expecting a high english level by someone that did Harvard… it feels fishy…

Tabata is hated about several people because she is not radical. She is emotionally and politically balanced person. She is the person that Brasíl and the world need. I think she will be a president in the future.

Trump is doing what he promised and positioning himself to be the anti-speech POTUS. Trump claims that he wants to jail those who have gone against him in any way, and George is perfectly OK with this position, because otherwise he would have said something. Trump claims that the media is the enemy, and George remains silent. Trump claims to be christian and George tells his audience that he is indeed a christian and we should vote for (and now applaud) the least educated, least christian, least rational person who has claimed that he is against free speech. Professionals now fear the social and professional consequences of a Trump presidency. This is TERRIBLE for the democratic republic, terrible for universities. Trump is not for the people ruling themselves, and George knows this. Liberals on campus are concerned, conservatives are appalling their new king. George knows all this. He is so consumed by his religion that he is willing to pretend Trump is a rational choice simply because Trump now claims he is against abortion for political purposes. George is aware that conservatives have the same abortion rate as the national average, but I have not seen him addresses this. The least christian person will soon be in the WH again, and those who claim to be christian are afraid to admit this simple fact. Those claiming to be for freedom of speech know that Trump has and will roll back more freedoms. All this because of a religion, and I am not surprised.

Sam can make me laugh out loud! Grotesque 😂

Hilarious - actually pathetic - reading all the garbage put out here against Fukuyama. But is there a single intelligent or thoughtful criticism of his critics here? Not one that I saw. Why are these ignorant trolls even here? Are these losers so pathetic that they follow Fukuyama around and try to pump themselves up by dissing him? I bet NOT ONE of these shit-for-brains could articulate a problem with his "End of History" thesis, let alone critique anything he wrote afterwards or said here. I've read all Fukuyama's brilliant books (except for Trust) after The End of History. There is a reason he publishes influential books of history and the rest of you trolls smear your own feces on your faces and wonder why people tell you that you smell like shit. Actually, I think we have some serious trolling going on here. Didn't realize the troll farm was so interested in Fukuyama. Poor guy. He is quite brilliant and doesn't deserve morons trolling him, even if they are bots. Anyone wishing to debate me, feel free to try. I know Fukuyama's positions well enough to argue them. So, if you think you've got the chops, bring it on, or STFU!

When can this “end of history” moron shut up?

The problem with Fukuyama’s end of history is that even that history comes to an end. I’m operationally defining history as democratic hegemony, neoliberalism fits, too. It’s the end of Western hegemony.

Questions were too long. No point to Interview people if you do most of the talking yourself.

To help Francis understand , the Federal Government is facilitating an invasion of its own territory for some reason. Oddly this Peaks during Democrat rule eras. Now interestingly recent migrants overwhelmingly back Democrats at the ballot box. Are these two phenomenon linked? I wonder. Meanwhile the US government is attempting to protect Ukraines borders.

Até eu que moro em Xique-Xique - Bahia falo um inglês melhor do que a Batata Amaral.

Shorten your questions

Open borders for Israel and no more Jewish democracy enjoy last gasps

This is nuts. Culture more important than economy? People care more about what TV they are watching vs their health care ? This is why the left lost.

Of all the crazy things I’ve seen the last 10 years (and I mean ALL of it) the craziest, by far…is finding out that Fukuyama is still taken seriously.

Fukuyama 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂🤣😂🤣

Is history over. 😂

Ho hum! Here we go again with more from Mr. Fukuyama. But he just keeps getting it wrong!!!

Here Francis, I'll help you out: People love wealth redistribution. Rich people hate it. So they micro-target distractions/propaganda customized to each demographic segment, decapitate populist movements like Sanders' and entrench pro-corporate legal norms to ensure economic mobilization never happens. You're just living in a fantasyland where your ideas are rewarded on merit, when really they're rewarded because they're non-threatening to the powerful.

Why is it always the people who assure us that economics is not a political motivator that get the promotions? 🤔

My spouse was an advertising executive and it is clear to me that Trump was a “created product via public promotion” and still is that product. The American public is inured, even addicted to that sort of promotion so we have bought into a product rather than an authentic person. In folk tales a magical witch dropped crumbs leading lost children into her ovens: are American Republicans the same due to greed?

Very disappointed by the very mundane, superficial take of one of our supposedly high flying intellectuals. The ominous introduction (a rum bottle to celebrate Harris’s victory) and nothing about what the Democrats’ candidate would have brought to the country are not convincing us that we escaped a misfortune. The longing for an extinction of the white chauvinistic male pig has been disappointed but hang on ! the uneducated black lazzy male living on his courageous, schooled and strong girlfriend’ salary might be the next hope. Maybe Francis did indeed drink this bottle of rum. It explains his poor platitudes.

As a rule of thumb (not LAW), it's always wise not to make predictions.

Look, what is it that you dont understand, the best and the brightest, the most educated have evolved to the point where they want to destroy and discard the very civilization we live in. Then the People have to chose the forces that are willing to protect and preserve,in this case, Western Civilization. And as the case with Trump and the republicans they are less then average and sometimes the worst.

Is no one questioning how Harris had such a huge following and such a huge loss? Is no one questioning why trump was not hiding his crazy views; knowing full well that he had already won before election day? I am normally not a conspiracy theorist, however, this was too far a win for trump to not question it!!!

Black and Hispanic people voted for trump because they wanted the Biden policy hanged And also not diverting money to foreign wars.

There is no difference in any party in America so far foreign policy is concerned. There is only one party or one coin with 2 sides. Some domestic issues may be slightly different But eventually there are all same. Killing innocent in other countries is hobby of both parties and both houses and senators give permission to presidents. Where is humanity??

Out if touch with the sentiments of the lower income groups. Of course Trumps election may not benefit those groups, but their concerns were totally neglected by the Democrats.

Cry baby cry. Time for idiots like Fukuyama has gone. He will soon be a relic and people will baulk as to how his ideas were ever taken seriously

Fukuyama is an idiot.

Inflation will go down if he drills for more oil and get rid of the foreigners.

The left wing parties don't do anything for the workers. All they do is flood the country with millions of foreigners to vote for them.

Shame on him. The guy who defines the Western Plutocracy going against the Man who will probably break it to become more of a Democracy. Best Team ever with Kennedy and Musk. Does he know what Deep State is? And Mainstream Media? And lies about Biden dementia?