What do these four men have in common? They’ve all been guests (one in abstentia) on the Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast in the past two weeks. My cohost Sarah Hepola and I spoke with Michael Moynihan, “The Fifth Column" co-host and formerly with Vice, about the new William F. Buckley doc, when conservatives were intellectuals, and why half a Yoo-Hoo is an aphrodisiac. (134: Michael Moynihan and the Eternal Orgasm).
Next we had on Eli Lake, journalist and host of the great “The Reeducation of Eli Lake” podcast, to talk about the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August (1968 redux?), Columbia protests, Tom Wolfe, Wikipedia lies, and what is PEN America anyway? Also: Eli writes our first AI outro! (135. Eli Lake on Campus Protests, Israel, and Marijuana as Jewish Kryptonite.)
Two days after the Harvey Weinstein rape verdict was tossed by the New York Court of Appeals, we hosted journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the married couple behind "The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered," to discuss why the mogul's New York sentence deserved to be overturned, the failures of journalism, Hollywood's transactional nature -- and what's next. (137: Harvey Weinstein, Interrupted.)
And dropping today, Coleman Hughes, host of “Conversations with Coleman” and author of The End of Race Politics, on campus protests, his viral "View" appearance, and why “hypocrites deserve free speech, too, but they should also be called hypocrites." (138. Coleman Hughes and The View of a Better Racial Future.) A free audio preview of Colemna’s episode is included here. As for a portrait in staying calm and collected on TV…
We are on a roll and would love for you to come along! Subscribers get full episodes and all sorts of weekly/monthly niceties.
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