I remain completely bemused by the notion that any employer should have anything to do with medical decisions. Unshackle medical insurance from employment. Give employees the money and let them choose their own health care. Then they can take it with them when the company lays them off. Make the insurance industry rethink the products.

It would be great if the articles mentioned in the podcast would be written in the description below

I guess for most people if they can't see something and it hasn't affected them personally, it's not real.

Love how Mark does a pretty basic albeit brutal economic determinism (plus FT quotes) while Carrie farts about with headlines and op-eds we've already read. Very Cannon and Ball.

There was also that small border dispute between two major nuclear powers, namely India and China, where 20 soldiers died on the Indian side and an unconfirmed number died (or maybe just injured) on the Chinese side.

Great show Mark & Carrie. Could we get time stamps for future episodes?

"on that bomb-shell, it's time to end the show" :)

As to sending the online students home, though, you should be aware that JAPAN decided one weekend in late March to ban re-entry to any working visa resident who happened to be outside the country. With only 72 hours' notice. And no indication of what tests or steps were needed to re-enter. Meanwhile, their own people (Japanese citizens) could go in and out with apparently no concern about COVID. So, to the extent that young Japanese taking online Harvard are told to go home, the approach the remaining Trump Administration (July 2020 - January 2021) is taking is extremely fair and consistent with what other countries have done.

It depends if covid is airborne or not. The masks are intended to limit spread by droplets. Masks are of limited use if it turns out to be airborne.

I thought that if your accounting firm screws up and you sign the forms, YOU, not the accounting firm, are liable for the mistakes.

Excellent discussion, though now I'm convinced the world has pretty much totally lost the plot everywhere :( Think I'll watch some Cheers episodes, to see Ted Danson before he was in Fargo and the world went nuts.

The NE is a lot cooler temp wise than, seems hot areas effected. This makes sense, most people inside in AC areas. CA is also seeing a spike in cases along with the rest of the sun belt.

Look up "Stop FIring the Innocent" by Yascha Mounk. The Harpers letter is a Main Street issue. People like the signatories all report getting thousands of emails thanking them for saying in public what they think they can't for fear of getting fired.

I just want all this to be over.

20:00 agreed. the people that are willing to stand up and fight, fight for the wrong thing.

No Mustang vs Volvo metaphor? Saaaad...

Please Mark and Carrie let us know your reading lists each week esp the international news sites.... because, if a bunch of us (esp me*) had prior knowledge of the events we'd be SO stoked 2 either: be proved wrong in prior thought: delighted 2 know of something you said before you said it. But, seriously, the smart people (not me) will put the theories 2 put your theories to the test....

Hit pause on the culture war stuff, and don’t fall for Tricky Trump. As Mark said one re-imagining at a time!

"I wanted to go into other domains where this surplus functions. Especially power and knowledge. In power we have 'surplus power'. That's for me the weakness of this contractual liberalism. Even with the most democratic power, where they say 'we're just your servant' [...] No. For power to effectively function [...] no matter how much they are bound by laws and regulations. There has to be this Superego message between the lines 'but basically we can do whatever we want'. It has to be that threat of omnipotence, which of course has to remain potential, but it has to be there." kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mL2mrMh5zs7QqZ8.html

I think you need better mice. the sound is not crisp

Damn that's a good take on Trump and Boris. Also the Chinese being Chinese is based. Talk about Russia some more!

why is no1 talking about the gorges dam in China, insane disaster waiting to happen, if it breaks 40% of chinas gdp lost, around 400 -600 mill people will die in floods. in this moment all citys near the dam and the river, is under 3-5 floors of water. keep up the AWESOME work Mark and Carrie, love your show, good luck from Denmark

What is Hamilton?

Trump isn't sick because he's one of the lizard people making frogs gay. #GetWithTheProgram :rolleyes:

What I liked about Mark Blyth when I first came across him was that he argued for the importance of concrete, objective economic factors in the rise of 'Global Trumpism'. Specifically the rise of economic inequality. I'm therefore disappointed to hear him (unless I misunderstood) endorsing the liberal left's campaign for symbolic and semantic 'goodness' and talking about 'cultural privilege' . Is this not precisely the kind of thing, divorced from real world concerns, that led to Trumpism?

I think... i think he knew that thing about him and Russia and information was going to come out about now. to explain the students thing. it was too random. and he stands to loose more with his base if the Russia thing gets more traction.

Comment on how letting in all these international students (because they pay full tuition, and thus disadvantage Americans) affects American students' acceptance rates at graduate and undergraduate schools, and also competition for employment against Americans in our very tight (aka liveable wage) jobs market? Doesn't sound like good policy. (Sounds like the stuff woke, comfortable liberals would love though fail to really understand.)

I'm watching this on youtube and thoses jokes still didn't make sense. ;-)

Mark and Carrie. Whats going on in Israel ? Bibi back on trial? Hows that play if he is convicted?

While I have not done full research on the reeducation camps, I have to say that those reeducation centres were done in order to better assimilate the population and region into the system of the rest of China. The radical terrorist attacks (trained and brainwashed by Saudi Arabia I heard) from years back triggered the plan for these reeducation centres, but the numbers and exact details of these camps have two angles. The one portrayed by the West makes them look like absolute terror and the one portrayed by China make them look like high school where people just learn Mandarin, sing, and do sports. I am sure the truth is perhaps in between these two portrayals, those deemed radical may have been put in the bad camps, while regular citizens may be in the good camps. :)

You seem to be lacking "facts" on China. You do have the state dept. talking points though

Trump going to be won 2020 it seems... he played this games very excellently... damn it...

As I understand it the Dutch has no problem helping pay for the southern European countries, but it has to mean they reform so they strengthen their economy.

The only problem with this show is the inexplicable scheduling. Appart from that I always love it. 👍

You get a fine if you're not wearing a seat belt, how is wearing a mask any different?

So... Mark made a prediction pre Corona that Trump would win, and I agree. But now idk, did Mark make another prediction regarding Trump's winning chances?

Mark England may get a spike but thanks to Nicola sturgeon Scotland is going well

I really enjoy these conversations, but how does a "political scientist" not know how to pronounce Angela Merkel?

There are Trumpies in my Mark & Carrie comments. How did they find this place?

Oh, is that a fact?

Younger gens have a way better grasp to technology/information which is occurring at an incredibly fast rate (regarding changes of terms, language etc) but yea I'd be a bit annoyed if I were Carrie too. The olds just can't keep up and are mad. Oh and Hamilton ALWAYS sucked.

I usually agree with everything Mark says, but I think he is misinterpreting the reason for the letter and overanalyzing the timing. It is an easy mistake to view the cancel culture movement as good faith, but there are and have been serious implications to both cancel culture and censorship online. In academia today, even seemingly benign statements that contradict dominant opinions will get you fired and attacked.

Democrat policies are working.... as expected. Dumpster Fire in progress.

First, nerds

A Great talk. But Mark should really expose himself less to topics about China. Made him quite a novice.

you talk like trump knows how to play chess, much less 3d chess

Capitalism has been the guiding principle of the past 500 or so years...so has its peculiar institutions. White Supremacy grew out of the renisance and the enlightenment to justify the system and industrialization. The reality is that capitalism is a celebration of an aversion to work that has been propped up by free or almost free labor. You either win the game so everyone else does your share or you use everyone elses efforts to promote your world view. We naively fell for the idea that liberal arts would infect the halls of Money and Power when in fact just the opposite came to pass. Chomsky said there are only 2 positions on freedom of speech...'you are either for it or not' and that you have to stand up for it precisely when you disagree with it the most. Where is the reset button the world needs a reboot.

Welcome to the world of Right wing v Left wing fascism.

What these two credentialists dont seem to understand about cancel culture is that apologizing makes them come after you harder and conceding things that you dont believe makes you a hypocrite. The response "lmao why didnt Rowling just apologize and say she'd do better like it's not even a big deal lol what's her problem" is absurd given the wider implications of that attitude for society. Appeasers like these 2 got us into this mess.

31:00 The Hong Kong people were part of the British Empire until it went back to China. There is a huge difference between looking after people who are part of your Country and looking after everyone in the World! If you look at what is Right wing in the UK, compared to what is Right Wing in other European Countries, the comparisons are not even close! You will see that the UK is very tolerant of different cultures, race is just an easy way to distract the populace and keep them divided so they can't see the real issues. There are however a massive number of JAMs who do not appreciate their wages being trampled through the bringing in of cheap labor. It is important that the labor market is kept stable to stop wages getting too high, but the way the current system filters all of the money to the top 0.1% is not in the interest of anyone except those people at the top. The reason that the media portrays the issue with wages onto the populist attitudes toward immigration is to shield the people from the fact that the issue is not caused by the immigrants! They are the patsies, the issue is the way the rich use the immigrants as an excuse to reduce wages so that they can make more money. If immigrants came into the country, merged with the population instead of creating areas solely populated by a single racial group, which in turn causes conflict with their neighbors and wages were not suppressed, I honestly don't think there would be an issue! When I was in primary school we had one Black Boy, 1 Asian Boy and 1 Asian Girl in my year. These days the number of people from all over the EU and other countries is far greater, for decades now these people have been growing up together so racism is not even close to how it was when I was a kid. However where you do find issues is where the authorities give preferential treatment to people from other Countries over their own citizens and that is an understandable response, because the way we are conditioned is to believe that law's apply to us all equally which is clearly not the case! The problem with your left wing globalist mindset of open borders is that the base is unstable! In Tai Chi and Taoism the most important thing is a stable base, a strong stance. The problem in the West is that the base has been in perpetual eroded since the 70's and possibly before then. If a government wants to make big changes they are relying on not upsetting too many of their voters because doing so will destroy them and stop them from getting back into Government and although I agree with letting people who were Hong Kong Residents before the control of Hong Kong was handed back to China a right to live in the UK, and their kids. To protect the British Population it does not make sense to allow anyone in who has a serious criminal record e.g. GBH, ABH, murder, Pedophilia, rape etc.. The Left Wing Globalists sell the freedom of movement as a right that we should all have and if that was really the case I'm not sure people would see it as an issue, but that's not true! With the exception of EU Citizens moving within the EU, the only people who are being allowed to travel to where ever they want to go are those people who come from poorer countries, because they benefit the Company owners. As a Brit, regardless of my ethinic group or sex I have no right to go where ever I want to, so why do you see that as a moral slight if I consider other people being given this privilege as unfair! When I hear about people who have served in the UK Armed Forces living on the street or in tents along the river, because the EU countries have chosen to ignore homelessness and then I hear about someone who has not contributed anything to the UK being given priority why do you consider that as xenophobic? In some cases with people who are racist certainly it is, but in my case it more about prioritizing those who have put back into society over those who have not!

It'd be nice if Mark and Carrie were less predictable on culture stuff. Ah yes, the right ("extreme", of course, and comprising the lion's share of the problem); the far left (sort of a problem but only because they're mirroring the right); the clueless centre, desperate for relevance after failing to sufficiently extinguish the right; and Mark and Carrie outside it all comprising the all seeing eye - standard bourgeois progressive guff. They often talk about "people like us" vis. economic issues. Psst, it applies to cultural politics, too.

Who else came here expecting star wars?

Like a lot of lefties, you two are badly misunderstanding the Harpers letter. People vulnerable to being cancelled wouldn't publicly sign, because they'd lose their job, because they'd be cancelled. It was signed by the un-cancelable to give cover to the more vulnerable.

How can New Zealand with a sovereign currency take a hit economically when they can create as many NZ Dollars to employ people and purchase anything that is for sale for the NZ Dollar? C’mon Mark, time to smarten up on MMT, you know what I’m talking about, you know the people

Dear Oh dear Mark Blyth, do you really consider yourself a scientist ? Your diatribe on China is pitiful, or are you looking for a spot on the FOX network?