A Gentlemen’s Disagreement

Episode 127 - A conversation on the state of journalism with TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs

We are joined this week by TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs to discuss the challenges and opportunities journalism faces today, how TIME is navigating that landscape, and what his vision is for covering the most controversial stories of the day, including and especially the 2024 election here in the U.S. 

Episode 126 - Debating the campus protests

We discuss and debate every aspect of the campus protests that have proliferated across the country over the past few weeks, including who the protesters are, what they are protesting, what the goals of the protests are, and how these protests compare to historical protest movements.

Episode 125 - Election Issues 2024: Taxing & Spending

The third installment in our monthly series of episodes analyzing how individual issues might affect the 2024 election returns as we take a look at what taxing, spending, the budget, and the national debt would look like with Congress and the Presidency under control of either of the two major parties.

Episode 124 - Mental health & the epidemic of loneliness with Dr. Eugene Beresin

Ricky reflects on being a father, and then we welcome on Dr. Eugene Beresin, a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Executive Director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds to talk about mental health and the rise of loneliness in our society. We discuss why people seem to be increasingly lonely and what we can as family members, friends, mentors, and as a society to make things better. 

Episode 123 - The importance of ballot access & RFK Jr. with Larry Sharpe

We are joined this week by Larry Sharpe, the Director of National Organizing for American Values 2024, a Super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to talk about the importance of ballot access, generally, and the importance of getting RFK on the ballot, in particular. Larry, himself a former gubernatorial candidate in New York, makes a fascinating and compelling case for not only why people should want RFK to win but also how RFK could actually win the presidency.

Episode 122 - Election Issues 2024: Abortion

Our monthly episode analyzing how individual issues might affect the 2024 election returns as we take a look at the state of the abortion debate from both a long-term, post-Dobbs perspective, and a short-term perspective given recent cases around mifepristone and IVF. It's an issue on which Democrats have an advantage, but will that translate to electoral results in the fall?

Episode 121 - Six in Sixty: SCOTUS, Super, Senate, SOTU, Gaza, Caitlin Clark

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.

Episode 120 - Embrace debate: should we continue to send aid to Ukraine?

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.

Episode 119 - A draft of the most significant speeches in U.S. history

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.

Episode 118 - Election issues 2024: Immigration

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.