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“Under JQ, the analysis seems to have gotten shallower (she is not bringing out a new white paper every week), but the tone has also grown less appealing. It feels like she begins by feigning more ignorance about the week's topic than should be possible for someone who has been in her job for as long as she has. And that seems to be in service of gently walking the audience toward positions that more or less anyone clicking subscribe on a Vox politics podcast already holds.
It makes me miss Yglesias, who despite having a voice made for sign language, had a way of starting from a place of at least some knowledge and digging into whether the latest avaialbe data supported or undermined the positions his acknowledged liberal values were "supposed" to be endorsing. That was a more engaging format than the current iteration.”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
05/13/24
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“Really enjoy how it’s shaping up. Liked that you had a respectful conversation with a thoughtful conservative in Arthur Brooks. There’s too much ideological sorting so that liberals reads the same blogs and watch MSNBC while conservatives read their blogs and watch Fox. I like when there is some...”Read full review »
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10/20/15
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“I am so happy this podcast exists. You can find discussions of politics everywhere, but domestic social policy? This is special. I feel smarter already. And. Sarah Kliff and Ezra Klein are on my short list of journalists whose views I consider consistently valuable. (Note that I have a...”Read full review »
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“I could listen to this for hours. Its full of informed people talking about interesting things in detail, and challenging each other to think about things in different ways. Be aware, it's liberal, but not partisan. If you're conservative, you may learn interesting things, but still be...”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
10/24/15
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