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Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

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Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral dilemma of their own over the latest Platner revelations, given the moral imperative of having a Senate that obstructs Trump’s worst policies. Questions of morality also surface with AI, particularly if we allow machines to do the thinking for us. Plus, the Dems need a Wemby, an American debt crisis seems inevitable, the global fertility crisis may be too hard to fix, and why is the English-language world the most unhappy?

Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller.

show notes

  • “The Next Level” pod will be out later today
  • Derek’s piece on vicemaxxing
  • Derek on the great AI cost panic
  • The “Plain English” pod, hosted by Derek
  • “Mere Christianity,” by C.S. Lewis
  • “Pluribus”

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