Episodes
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Episode 121 - Six in Sixty: SCOTUS, Super, Senate, SOTU, Gaza, Caitlin Clark
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Lots to talk about this week, including a great week for former-President Trump: the Supreme Court ruled that states could not disqualify him from their ballots, he romped through Super Tuesday and his last remaining challenger dropped out, and the longtime Republican Senate Leader with whom he has a famously frosty relationship announced he was stepping down. We then shifted to President Biden's State of the Union address and analyzed the political needle he is trying to thread in the Middle East. Finally, we spent some time discussing the supernova that is Caitlin Clark.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Episode 120 - Embrace debate: should we continue to send aid to Ukraine?
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
This week marked the two-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It also brought news of Alexei Navalny's death and a potential Russian space nuclear weapon. With U.S. aid to Ukraine still stalled in the House, we decided this would be as good a time as ever to engage in a full debate on the issue.
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Episode 119 - A draft of the most significant speeches in U.S. history
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
We are back with our fourth annual Presidents Day Mount Rushmore-style snake draft. We are joined for the draft, once again, by our friends Dan Gonzalez and Joe Webster, and this year we are drafting the most significant speeches in U.S. history. A fun episode for any lover of U.S. history.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Episode 118 - Election issues 2024: Immigration
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
This week we kick off the first in a series of conversations about the main issues that will define the 2024 elections. Immigration has surged to the top of many people's lists as a central issue that needs to be addressed, and we examined the issue in light of the recent failure to pass the agreement that several senators hammered out. We analyzed why the agreement failed and what that means going forward, including what immigration policy might look like under a second term of President Biden or President Trump.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Episode 117 - A conversation on climate with Dr. Yi Ming
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
We are joined this week by Dr. Yi Ming, a leading climate science expert and a professor at Boston College's Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, for a conversation about the current state of climate change. We discussed the increase in natural disasters in recent years, COP28 and Dr. Ming's experience at that conference, previous successes and failures in climate policy, and reasons for hope for the future.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
We are joined this week by Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great white shark experts in the country, to discuss how great white sharks came back to the Atlantic Ocean over the past decade. Dr. Skomal provided us with the science behind the reemergence of the great white in these waters and detailed the positive and negative effects of its resurgence. We then used the example of the great white to discuss the broader policy implications of conservation, climate, and economic efforts in the U.S. and globally.
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Episode 115 - Six in Sixty: MLK, Yemen, Iowa, Primaries, Harvard, Patriots
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
We return to our trusty "Six in Sixty" segment this week to touch on a bunch of topics that have been in the news. We begin by discussing Martin Luther King, Jr. and how his words remain as relevant as ever today (8:41-24:38) and then move into discussing the enfolding conflict between the Houthi forces in Yemen and the U.S. and its allies (24:39-38:18). We next turned to U.S. politics to discuss the results of the Iowa caucuses (38:23-50:13) and the Democratic Primary race (50:14-57:27), before concluding by talking about the resignations of Harvard President Claudine Gay (57:33-1:09:41) and Patriots coach Bill Belichick (1:09:42-1:20:53).
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Episode 114 - Does the 14th Amendment bar President Trump from office?
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
We kick off the year by diving into the text of the 14th Amendment in light of the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine that the Amendment bars former President Donald Trump from holding office. We delve into the history of the 14th Amendment, the text of Section 3, whether we think the text applies to President Trump, and whether we think states should pursue this method of potentially keeping him off the ballot.
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Episode 113 - The top stories of 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
Tuesday Dec 26, 2023
We close out our year by each choosing our top five stories of 2023--with the least overlap we have had during our three years of doing this episode.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Episode 112 - In Memoriam: Henry Kissinger & Sandra Day O’Connor
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
We spent the episode this week delving into the lives and legacies of two of the most significant Americans of the latter-half of the 20th century. We began by discussing Henry Kissinger, perhaps the most impactful American diplomat of the century (7:01-45:02), before discussing the first female justice of the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor (45:07-1:07:39).