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Mark Levin
Why Are People Blaming Pres. Trump for Lost Seats?
"There's a piece at PJ media that says what's all this hating on Trump about losing seats for us How did he lose seats for us Well look at the people who were nominated Okay That doesn't mean that the others would have won At all I see mister producer people are picking up on my point about 2024 Rauch used to call his show an echo chamber Well I've inherited it Finally the same pundits that don't other ass from me you know what They finally learning something Now what about the Democrats What did they get out of this election Well Joe Biden got out of this election that he is a mandate And that he may well run for reelection I think the latter is a good thing If he runs for reelection I really do He says today my intentions are to run I'll be a 112 That's okay by me Let them run
WTOP
"rauch" Discussed on WTOP
"Of classic TV shows were no doubt said to hear of the passing of leave it to beaver actor Tony Dow this week. Joining us to remember is TV guides man rauch. Good morning Matt. Good morning. Yeah. I think a lot of people generations, I think, were weaned on, leave it to beaver over the many decades and syndication is still out there and the nostalgia channel me TV is going to celebrate him tomorrow afternoon, starting at noon for a 5 hour marathon of his most memorable episodes. Episode titles include things like Wally's job, Wally's weekend job Wally's car while his new suit. I mean, you get the idea that the stakes were pretty low on leave it to beaver, but at the same time, that's what we loved about at the general humor, that idealized depiction of a sitcom family in the middle country, everything was just so benign. And as the older brother went, I mean, he was a really nice and sweet and earnest older brother. He kind of thought beaver was a creep sometimes, but yet those moments when they were together in their bedroom just talking about things where beaver could open up in a way he probably couldn't to his dad ward. There's something really sweet about that depiction and it has endured over the many decades. They revived it there for a while as you saw beaver and Wally as parents themselves. But what people really remember is they leave it to beaver series. And so yes, I think when his death was announced this week twice as it turned out, but when people come to grips with leave it to beaver and the legacy that it had. It's a pretty significant one for such a quiet little show. Yes, TV from our youth. You say another show or a show from the past is making a comeback. Yeah, different kind of youth here. We're talking about beavis and butthead icons of the 1990s, probably says stupidest buddy act ever done. But they're back, again, not on MTV this time, but on paramount plus on streaming because that's the way the industry works these days. But a little bit twist here is that even though you see some of the episodes where there's still those giggling adolescence in high school, he'll never grow up. Well, there's also many episodes miniature episodes where you see them as grown-ups, but they're just the biggest doofuses as they ever were. So I guess then there's a comfort to be known that some things never change and that against them would apply to something as silly as beavis and butthead, but it is back. Okay, thank you very much, Matt. You bet. TV guides, Matt rauch. It's 1113. An orthopedic surgeon makes understanding pain, painless. It's the biggest frustration that patients have. This is doctor Pamela Mehta, talking about
WTOP
"rauch" Discussed on WTOP
"Guides Matt rauch man what do you have for us Well I'm calling it the clash of the streaming Titans on Friday because on Friday is when that fix flicks after three years finally gives us a new season of Stranger Things The Supernatural young adult thriller that has that sort of Stephen King vibe to it but it has been delayed a long time because of COVID and other production delays and so we're finally going to get the first part of this season There will be a few more episodes that's going to drop right before July 4th and then there'll be one more season after that But that has been the anticipation for that has been huge The Disney+ is not lying down and on the same day on Friday they're going to launch the first couple of episodes of the new Star Wars based series built around Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ewan McGregor is going to be reprising that role from the feature film So Star Wars versus Stranger Things Of course if you're streaming you can watch them whenever but still having these two launch at the very same time It really does that's going to be pretty amazing And this is also a big week for finales Well it is season finales are all over the place this month but this week there are two in particular that are creating a lot of noise which includes the very series finale of this is us which just laid to rest their matriarch Rebecca last Tuesday some very emotional episodes have been airing recently And so we figured this final episode which will send the big three siblings off into the future will be against something you'll reach for the Kleenex for And there's no show quite like this is us So people are going to miss that But also on Thursday Ellen DeGeneres after 19 years in daytime is going to sign off of her daytime TV talk show and that is I think as bad as big a void it's going to leave is when Oprah left daytime television She was sort of the inheritor of that crown doing it very lightheartedly with a lot of entertainment and a lot of charity stuff and all that sort of business But Ellen DeGeneres really found her footing as a daytime TV show host bringing sort of a late night energy there And so yeah an end of several eras but one in prime time and one in daytime Yeah and laughing and crying left behind us Okay thank you very much Matt Oh you bet thanks TV guides mad rauch Coming.
Code Story
"rauch" Discussed on Code Story
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You can do this using their services, pipelines, commands, and insights tools to create your singular workflow in a powerful way. You can easily release code anywhere directly from slack. It's where you live anyway. Automate live previews of new feature changes, and measure your integration, your ci CD, cadence, and stability of all of your products. So who uses CTO dot AI? The best and most sought after startups in the land. CTO AI has helped fast growing startups who've raised over half a $1 billion in funding to scale their software delivery workflows. Find out how they can help your team work flow smarter, not harder. By visiting go dot CTO dot AI slash coat story. This episode is brought to you by courier. Your application speaks to your users with notifications. But what do you do when your users each respond better to a different channel? Building the event triggers is annoying enough. But when you have to build templates for multiple channels track deliverability and performance and manage granular user preferences, you end up with overwhelming complexity that distracts your team from your core product. That's why courier builds its API and notification system as a surface. Courier is the fastest way to design, manage and orchestrate all of your applications, notifications using a simple API. The UI is a powerful drag and drop editor to help you build and send templates over any channel while giving your users full control over their own preferences. Plugin providers like Twilio, SendGrid, mailgun, and Firebase, to send email, SMS push in app, or even direct messages like slack. WhatsApp, or MS teams. Get started today with 10,000 notifications for every month. No credit card needed. Just go to courier dot com slash code story. That's, IER dot com slash code story. But I remember I just wanted to create a simple web page that used to react components. In particular, I was trying to build the web page that said, welcome to our company. Live your email to get started. In a notice that all that infrastructure was a pain to set up, like you had to configure web back, you had to basically spend all this time just working on the meta problem instead of just doing why in your brand, the cool stuff they want to share with customers. It's a very simple contract of you can get started with no configuration, and there is one command to develop in one command to build. In one command to run the entire thing on your machine. My name is Guillermo rauch and I'm the CEO and cofounder of Versailles. This is code story. The podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry and build and lead. A team that has your back. I'm your host know a lap part. And today how Guillermo Roche combined the best developer experience, with obsessive focus on front end performance. All this and more on code story. Guillermo Roche is originally from Argentina. He's always been involved in the open-source world starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he fell in love with the web and the front end system, working in the early days of Ajax, JS animation and jQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed, because he really enjoys what he does professionally on the web. On a personal level, though, he has three kiddos, so he stays pretty busy. He's into fitness and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that, he is into coffee, though I don't know many tech people who aren't into coffee. Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the front end layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what stripe Twilio, et cetera have done for the industry with their foundational developer first APIs. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. And alongside this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast. Specifically, to develop preview and ship. This is the creation story of next JS and vercel. Versailles that developer platform for front and teams. And our intent is to give you all the tools necessary for you, your team, your company to succeed on the web. We have this life cycle that we call develop preview ship. Develop, you can use any modern front framework to develop our own platform, but we create next JS, which is a react based framework. We like to think of it as the SDK or the missing SDK for the web. Just like every other ecosystem like Android or iOS have their SDK built in, we want to perfect this blend of opinion and minimalism in an SDK that we can give all developers in the world for free and is completely open-source. So next she has turns react into a technology that you can use to build pages and websites and replications. It's very ergonomic and easy to use. The preview part of our life cycle is that once you push your code, we give you a live URL that you can share and collaborate with with your team. We think that the best products are built by teams, not just individuals, and we think that the front ecosystem has this amazing advantage that when you push code, it's just much more fun to go to a live URL and see how it works, experience it, test that it meets the needs of the product managers and your customers. Share it with your customers even early on. And then finally, the sort of ship phase of the life cycle is about delivering your application to a global edge network that makes your apps really, really snappy for end users. So the way that we think of this as a workflow is that it each phase should sort of reinforce the last. So when you push your front and you want you to make sure that it performs great if you're end users so that you can run the best possible business or have the most enjoyable possible application for end users. So we also have an analytics layer that informs the next step of development here. So when you ship your code, we measure it from the perspective of your end users. And we can give you the data that you can use to then develop, then preview then ship and make this process just a constant source of.
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"To stop and think and use their Their slow brain instead of there fast brain and there's lots of efforts to do stuff like that and they're going to be policy changes but it's going to be about this going to be top down stuff like that where these institutions organizations begin to try to build in better structures and incentives and then there's the bottom up stuff and those are the things that you and i and that's what you just referred to earlier us which is why. I'm so glad you said what. That's am i gonna re tweets fake stuff just because it's fun and we're going to take the burden of actually checking for example mother. Something is true. Am i going to join ana trolling campaign or cancel cancer. Or am i gonna actually say no. This is wrong. I'm in a stay away from this. Am i going to stay strictly accurate in what i teach my classroom. Even when i tweet something. I personally i try to check it. I try to make sure it's accurate. And i think that's the social norm that if individuals pursued that. We're not certainly not the best gauge of accuracy. But it turns out actually that if you change in santa's little and you just prime people to consider accuracy. When they're doing a social media post actual experiments find that they do it better and all you really have to do is prime them to care about accuracy with a statement like accuracy agree or disagree. Accuracy really matters is important in life. So it's going to be talked down. It's going to be bottom up. But it's got to be kind of an all of society multi-layered response the bad news is. That's really hard. The good news is we've done it before. The good news is markets are based on all kinds of incentives like that the constitution acknowledges to we can't be complacent but we also shouldn't assume that it's impossible job. Disclose close with a crazy idea that inlet your act which is I don't think the internet was was designed to destroy journalism or anything. It just happened It's an outcome. And i wonder sometimes whether it's not it's not a vehicle for And i just. I have to say it mostly or not i love. I think it's fabulous i. I love twitter. There's a lot of things things. I don't like about twitter. Things don't like about the internet but it's it's an extraordinary thing. And i do have your hope that like many other innovations that we struggle with i we will figure out the norms and institutions. That'll make better..
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"In any way pathological crazy idea that evelyn hooker exploded in the forties fifties that myth which had been deeply established in psychiatry. Thanks to the work. To non empirical people Caused devastating harm to generations of people. Like me well. Someone comes along in the fifties and actually does experiments and says you know gives a bunch of psychological tests to people who are gay and people who were straight and then takes. The label often chosen to a panelist psychiatrists and saw and says. Tell me which ones you're gay. They can't do it because there's no difference in their mental health so another example one. That's very close to my heart and my point about courage though in heroism these people who step forward the one. I always think of a wise who says the reason women are dining. Childbirth is because doctors are poisoning them after visiting the morgue and then delivering a baby and people think he's crazy because no one wants to believe that he the truth does eventually out in those situations but it takes off and decades and lots of death and suffering in between but that process as you point out is an extraordinary one. It is a very powerful. But the point i was going to make it. The personal level is that no final. Say and no personal authority is not a bad way to live your life. You should be pissed them logically humble in your own views. You should have strong opinion opinions weekly held because you should be open to the possibility that you're fallible right where you're just one human being and no personal authority. Don't rely on an expert who you trust to prove that to decide what you believe. There are some. You might learn from many but don't think of them as divine in any way That i don't know if this ever happened to you. It's one of my most chilling experiences. I'll be trying to figure out if something trying to find a fact to support an argument. I'm making or opinion and i'll start googling around and looking for some just like an insight that'll support what i think is true and instead of binding something convincing i find something i wrote twelve years ago. I thought well that's not reliable guy. Do what i wrote that. It's ever happened to him. I okay anyway. Let's let's close and talk about what might reverse some of the degradation and destruction of the constitutionality that the internet is wrought. The book has a lot on Trolling the outrage. What i call the average epidemic. I've talked about here. there's a lot. There's a book advance the constitution. A defense of dressers mentioned the book. Yeah by jonathan around just Available were all find. Books are sold but we also you also talk a lot about cancel culture which you know. We're we're not. We didn't spend much time on it here. But those are all being driven by the by social media in the app and arbutus on the internet to like how you quote someone saying everybody's in a book club you're the book and they're Panning you or criticizing. I like to think of it as something to now. Go around and put a bumper sticker on your car that you drive around on dr row it. You didn't choose to put their so. That's really disturbing a. What do you think we might do about that. What might make that better well. Why are you hopeful of income on. Yeah it's so much more fun to be pessimistic. I'm hopeful because optimism is too complacent the idea that these problems just all go away if we wait them out. That's not true if we don't defend the constitution of knowledge and redesigned some of our personal expectations and behaviors. You just said and also some of our institutions and organizations then it's not clear we keep the constitution knowledge. It's what ben franklin famously said. When asked what form of government the constitutional convention had produced. He said a republic if you can keep it..
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"This is a tough vote for you. But you know that second runway at the airport in your district you've been asking for. I think we can do that this time. Well maybe no planes. You're gonna land there. Maybe it's a runway to nowhere but that's how politics works on so i'm is a separate conversation. But you might wanna have a look at my little mini book. It's really an article. It's called political realism. How hacks machines. Big money and backroom deals can strengthen american democracy and. i think we've actually gone combination of libertarians and progresses conservatives. Have gone too far in moralizing against all of that stuff and thinking that we could substitute some kind of cleaned system in which politicians have less discretion in the result is the chaos that we now see as that russ. That's awesome throwdown with their. Or what i loved it. Except the implication that i think technocrats shit desire god just want government to be less powerful but i take the point. It's an it's a really interesting observation that that the system runs through this book average or other book. I'm sorry but it runs this idea that you know you don't get exactly what you want. Almost no one does. You've gotta compromise in the in the political arena and that that's healthy in all kinds of ways even though you might not like anyone outcome so that part of beautifully stated you wrap the whole thing up there one elegant elegant loop that was wonderful. Thank you sir. But you should be a college president thanks. I'm working at it I play one on tv or on on the internet. I guess Before we leave. I want to get a little closer with with some discussions of of where we might encourage that hope and optimism. That could be there for you. I i just want you to talk about the two principles that underlie the The constitutionality that we haven't mentioned yet we talk about liberal science Meaning the freedom to explore and test ideas and just the two ideas no final. Say and no personal authority. The reason i like that. It's only two fantastic. I know it's not the whole story. But they are hugely important. And i think they have something to say. We're on personalized not just for this system of constitutional the constitutional show talk about what those principles mean and why they're important and then we we'll talk about the personal side. Yeah i'd love to. I love to hear your reflections on how they inflect. Our personal lives. what. I call liberal science. Also the constitution knowledge this whole system that we have a figuring out what's true and what's false by essentially outsourcing it to a giant social network. A lot of things go on there is stay but there are two rules that are at the heart of it and wherever those rules are followed socially by people you'll see the emergence of something that looks a lot like modern science lot like modern journalism and law. The first is no final. Say this is radical idea. That says no matter. How certain are you might be wrong. And so might everyone else and that means you need to put in place a system. Where first of all any idea can be applauded because it might have something to contribute to correcting an error somewhere and second. No one's allowed to be in charge of this process. No one's allowed to come along and say okay you can say x. But you cannot say what because what might be right. You never know so that sets up an open ended process of constant criticism and checking and that's a revolution in human affairs. No one had thought of that until basically the mid the mid sixteen hundreds. That's underpinnings called the fallible stool that's the underpinning of not only free speech but the whole era checking system we rely on the second is no personal authority and this one's equally revolutionary and even harder to implement and this says okay. So how you gonna figure out what's right and what's wrong will. You can't do it by saying god revealed it to you or by saying i'm the dictator I'm buying the president of the country to tell you what's right you know. You can't sam. I'm xi jinping. So here's what's true. No one gets authority just simply based on who. They are so at every to check an idea..
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"I think that's fair. Many cases that have crept into these disciplines because certain ideologies. Come along in the past. You know things like marxism and then postmodernism. And now they're aspect of critical race theory others you've basically have imperialistic ambitions and say you gotta tow this line. You've gotta take this line or else you're not doing science. And that's an anti scientific attitude those. I'm not sure i'd argue. It's worse today. I think i might argue that. We've always had those problems and that we rely on professional norms which very delicate in many ways to push back and one of the reasons. I wrote this book is to get people to push back to be. Our best sells on to remember. The constitution of knowledge is there requires a lot of us. This is the biggest message of my book. The notion of a marketplace of ideas which free speech is often. everything else is self. Maintaining is completely wrong. You need to have all of these structures in santa's need to understand them. They were made by humans for humans. And then you need to. You need to protect them. You need to get them right. You need to be in a position to call out the kinds of distortions when you see them talking about on. That's why i wrote this book I am concerned that these distortions in inside the constitution of knowledge are becoming costly and dangerous. And i'm certain that distortions outside from propaganda other forms of epidemic warfare or real threat. Let me come back to the. Us constitution i. We used to talk about the score on the program. I'd make the point that the constitution used to restrain certain political outcomes and now basically the constitution and the restrain anything other than gun ownership and Some freedom of speech but an economic sphere Things that used to be up for grabs in terms of they were constitutional. And now it's like now if congress votes on it it's probably fine. We don't we somewhere in the new deal and around there. Derail the constitution restraining. The economic power of government was lost. And they're gonna counter argument to that as well but if people don't really believe in it people just want quote good laws but the constitutional doesn't really matter what the constitution says that implicit as you said earlier. This sort of living part of the concept of the organic part of the constitution is relevant is is as relevant as as The piece of paper but what happens then is that you know in the old days if i said to remember congress you know it's really not right to find a lot of business to your constituents just because they're yours That's not right. Should you put the base the military base or whatever it is in the right place for it and they eventually convinced themselves. When there's no real constitute no paper constitution that restrains a wealthy other guys doing it. And i don't do it. I'll be. I'm gonna lose my job so everybody starts to behave in a way that was morally unacceptable. You just say well that'd be wrong. I wouldn't do that and then it becomes sort of like well if you don't you lose your job and then it's like yeah. It's kind of way the system works. And i worry. That's the kind of loss of internal monitoring that i feel. We've we've had across many many institutions. Do you think that's worrisome real. No i think we got too little too few earmarks pork. Barrel spending has become too difficult. Think the world of politics is much harder and more difficult than economists realize and the notion. That technocrats should decide where things go on. The basis of efficiency does not understand that a madison. Ian system relies on building coalitions in a peaceful way. And that's extremely difficult and one of the ways that you do that is indeed one of the hardest things to do is cut spending. And if you wanna cut medicare for example well it's going to be pretty darn helpful to be able to call representative robertson santo..
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"You wound up with basically kind of of swamp fetid swamp of fake news and hyper partisanship. Because that's where it seemed like the readers wanted to go. That's where you were making money and if you'd been alive to have this conversation with me back then we both would have thrown up our hands and say this is terrible and there's no way to get out of it right. So how do we get out of it. And the answer is incentives and institutions. Which is kind of the way we always get out of these loops right The environment the information environment. That was being created. Back then was toxic for the business model in the long term You know you can only publish so much stuff. That's that's fake and extremely outrageous before people get on with their lives. Wanna do something less talks on. It was bad for the country and a lot of people didn't like it. People in journalism realize this unsustainable so in the early part of the twentieth century they formed institutions like the american society of newspaper. Editors the first thing they did we start promulgating professional standards and ethics codes. Like don't make stuff up. Be accurate run corrections things that we take for granted now will someone had to come up with that. And then they had the development of journalism schools professional schools that basically inculcated those north said the right and wrong ways to do things and then those people found out into the process and then you had the incentives this i know dear to your heart. Russ in all of the constitution acknowledge. It relies much more heavily on rewards than on punishments which is really as you know the thing that works.
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"They can do that in china in the soviet union in jonestown and religious sects most human societies function. That way not this way. But this is the only way that gives you peace and knowledge and by the way freedom as beautiful As as i mentioned before you allude to it but you write about quite as much as i would. Which is the competition part right. Because there's all these nodes trying to get their not just devoted to truths they're devoted to the rewards that come with adding that knowledge so it could be a published paper. It could be tenure position could be a front page story on your paper or a po- a position a magazine and the thing i worry about. It's i again i wanted. Just praise what what you wrote. There's it's a beautiful exposition of the ideal. Of course it. Real life doesn't work quite as well as as that romantic story just told one of those temptations is to extend the norms and institutions. That work very well in science and extended into places. They don't work quite as well and to make them look that way they the way they do inside so i would say social science struggles to be as reliably knowledgeable about what it claims to know. Then quote real science. Real science also has trouble right but My worry is in my field in in the social sciences that scientism not science scientism the trappings of science revoked because they're rewarding monetarily and they encourage people to make claims that aren't quite as reliable as they are in other fields comment on that. If you would. I'm gonna come up by pushing back i described is not the ideal. It's how it actually works and that isn't to say that any human social system is perfect. But if you think of what this system is doing in what is it. December or so of two thousand nineteen a new virus discovered within a period of weeks actually days but certainly weeks. Hundreds of thousands of expert minds in all kinds of disciplines around the world are spontaneously without centralized control organized Pivot to solve that problem. Hundreds if not thousands of institutions. Go to work on it. Within a period of a couple of weeks it's sequenced within a period of couple of days of vaccines designed And now it's in my arm less than a year later. That's an incredible feat of human organization No it's species transforming and now you're gonna say well that's knicks apple science but it breaks when you try to bring it to economics and to other fields and i say no kann of i. I'm against scientism But scientism is just basically lazy practice where you're trying to look for shortcuts by using methods that may not apply in your field but the bigger point russ be curious if you agree or disagree with this is that the constitution of knowledge can organize any kind of debater argument including even weirdly enough theology which is the definition of something that's nonscientific. It can't resolve adjudicate every kind of dispute because allama stuff like literary criticism. It's just much harder to find evidence that people can agree as dispositive. That's the nature of the field. Chemistry it's relatively easy the economics. I don't know where you put it but probably somewhere between And that's the nature of the beast. And you know we gotta live with that but there is no kind of social argument about truth cannot be organized by the principles of using decentralized methods of checking of debate structuring this. Around looking at what you can check and giving that priority and that in fact works. I argue for literary criticism works for moral disputes like abortion. It doesn't resolve chris. Boy that's asking too much but it does give us a way of approaching which says okay abortion. What kind of arguments can we bring to bear on this. That would be persuasive to any reasonable person. What kind of evidence do we have about the development of fees. What can we say about the history of ethics It gives us a way to approach these ideas in an organized fashion and that's so crucial compared to all the alternatives to disagree. But before i do. I do want to say that. There's a gorgeous two paragraphs or when your book where you defend a religion..
EconTalk
"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"You in for those you listening on the audio only. It's a lovely. It's a lovely covering. You're missing out. But i'm gonna play you all of innsbruck because it's been such an inspiration to mayan and lavigne notes that no society can function without functioning institutions. That shape us people you know. That's the journalism profession at. I came into the newsroom. Said shape me by really hammering intimate. Gotta get it right. I've gotta be accurate. I've gotta check. I've got a double source of go to go back to people. Before i write about them gotta run corrections. If i'm wrong even though i'm not happy about it. And no one else is happy about it. Institution shape us. And that's very true of the constitution of science unlike the Commercial marketplace constitution of science. The reality based community is mostly a professional network because it takes typically years in any of these fields law journalism public administration and especially science to get up to speed to understand the ideas to get the jargon the education to learn the literature to build a track record so that others know that you're on the level so it's very much a professional network in it relies heavily on a lot of unwritten rules and they range from obvious things. Like you can't make stuff up in regular life. You know people make stuff up all the time or you can't believe stuff just because somebody told you and you think it might be true. You can't do you on in science journalism. You have to be fact based that's really hard in. All of those norms can be undermined. And i argue in the book that there too big attacks on the right now. One of them is from the outside. And that's from people who were using disinformation and other forms of episode democ warfare and the force at the center of that right now in america is donald trump and maga- and his movement very very dangerous. But the other is the one that you mentioned russ and that's from the inside. And that's factions that come into academia increasingly journalism and seek to politicize it seek to erode the norms that what really matters is accuracy above all in we shouldn't be following political agendas. We should be seeking and following facts. Sometimes it's hard to know the difference but where our heart should be what we should be striving to do is keep political agendas out of it and there has been a pretty serious dementia that at a lot of institutions. We'll come back and talk about both of those I'm going to bring an an economist. Respective i that i think is important to add to the just the cultural trends that we're dealing with at some of those cultural trends. I fear are the result of incentives. Which is the economists perspective before we get there I wanna talk about the constitution and knowledge in. It's ideal form which you are quite eloquent and Thoughtful it's lovely to have a book like this where you get to actually show some nuance and let the reader understand the subtlety of what you're talking about And we won't do justice to that next fifteen minutes or so of trying to to cover that. But but i really liked that part of the book where you try to give the flavor of what is actually going on but at a higher level it's sort of a bird's eye view you talk about the episode funnel the way that ideas get turned into what we have is knowledge and in particular the importance of. It's being shared knowledge. Which i'd have not really seen people emphasize enough. You draw charles perse. Who's a personal favorite of mine. Almost never gets mentioned outside this program. So i'm thrilled. That he's in your book number places but talk about that episode mcdonnell and the rules and norms and institutions that. Take the myriad of ideas down to what we would call share knowledge. I love to because that really goes to the heart of the matter and also relates. To what i said earlier. The marketplace of ideas is not enough so most people most of the ideas that most people have about. What's true what's not true. Most of the time are wrong. Just wildly long to human condition wherein a state of abundant bumbling error. Most of the time. We're you know we're pretty good at immediate problems that affect our lives and demand and give us immediate feedback like you know. Is that a tiger in the bush just debris or where's the next tribe But we're not good at all at bigger abstract questions. Like what's the cause of the disease. That's that's decimating. Our our society our tribe. Or where's the next were. Pardon me or were which god do we worship and those we tend to be deeply in error because we're riddled with cognitive biases. We and we look for evidence and actually perceive favorably evidence that favors that helps us with status or favors. Our point of view really really makes us feel good makes us feel good. Yeah that's pretty much how we choose ideas and the result of that is that most of what people want to believe on any given day is not just wrong but wildly wall. So the question is how can a society find that small fraction of one percent of people's ideas that actually advanced knowledge and that's finding needles and haystacks. And the way you do that is to set up a kind of i liken it to a giant funnel the input and is free speech. That's the idea. Anyone can believe anything anyone can say just about anything. And that's the raw material for the reality based community but then it goes into this process. I think of it is like a system of pumps and filters many many nodes in this network. Most ideas are so screw. All they don't even get acquired like some people think elvis is alive but no research dollars. Well i hope not at your university. Anyway we're going to be spent finding out why elvis is still alive. A small fraction of ideas will be acquired by the system and science and journalism will say okay. We need to look at this. And then it'll be divided up into units sitter refutable that are checkable be disallowed peer. Reviewers will look at it. Editors will look at it if it passes muster and only some of them will then it will be passed on it'll be published then others can pick it up. They look at it. They do their own assessment over time. An actually pretty darn quickly through all of these nodes in this network of checkers. I think the mistake being pumping and filtering stations. The good stuff drips out at the end of the funnel. A very narrow end which on any given day is new knowledge a tiny tiny miniscule prussia's fact a fraction of what goes in a. This is a way what it does is two things i it converts information which is free and cheap and mostly wrong into knowledge which is very expensive can very precious and is humanity's greatest resource objective knowledge is a species transforming invention. Put the shot in my arm. That's protecting me from cogan. It's changes from small. Tribal societies in which knowledge essentially never grows from generation to generation to one in which we now add more to the cannon of human knowledge any day any one day than we did in two hundred thousand years but also very importantly it gives us a way to settle disputes to work very quickly through this massive of ideas. And do that in a way that's peaceful and it's decentralized that no one can take control of no prince or priest or polit bureau can say okay rest robert. Here's what you're teaching your university. 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"rauch" Discussed on EconTalk
"My guest is journalist and author jonathan. Rauch latest book and the topic of today's conversation is the constitution of knowledge. A deep look at how we know what we know or at least what we think. We know how that's been changed in the internet age and what might be done to make it better. Johnson was last year in september. Two thousand eight talking about the chevy volt and corporate culture a long time ago jonathan. Welcome back to econ talk. I'm happy to be here. One of my favorite shows. We should make more often. You got it. I think thirteen years is a long for in between episodes. You're lucky i'm still around. What do you mean by the constitution of knowledge. It's lovely title. Would what do you mean by it. It's our system collectively as a society for figuring out what's true and what's not true and doing that in a way that respects our our freedom and keeps us sane and keep civil every society. Large and small needs a way to do that. Many many societies have broken up over questions of truth of fact western societies wars raging across europe and many other places until we got a constitution knowledge which says you know what instead of having rulers make decisions about facts. Let's have rules to do it. And we set up a system to do that. Looks a lot like the. Us constitution in many ways. And that's the constitutional knowledge. We say we set it up The constitution of the united states was hammered out by a group of people. But as you point out a number times on the book there's a parallel between the constitution of knowledge. The that is the process by which we try to figure out peacefully what is true and what is true and the marketplace the economic system. We have where they're both decentralized they both rely on quite a bit on competition and on the norms and feedback loops that that really sustain it and make it do positive things and not just Randomly produce outcomes. I i was struck with what you just said about the wars because i used to like to quote. I haven't done it in a while. But i like to quote walter. Williams said in the old as if you wanted to get rich you hit your neighbor that with the stick and took took abor stuff and capitalism was away markets. Were away to a lot of people to get rich instead of zero-some game strategy similarly if you kill someone have award to make them believe what you think is true. It's not as effective as what you outlined in the constitution and knowledge. Yeah yeah well. That's exactly what it might be more effective but it's not as nice guy then. The same is true of the us constitution. There is the disa- analogy that you mentioned that the. Us constitution was written down by a group of people in a room. But as i say again and again in the book the real. Us constitution isn't normally starts with the words on paper. What it really is is all the norms institutions things like political parties on judicial review and popular sovereign tea and All the many things that built up and the same is through of the constitution knowledge. It's wasn't written down to begin with but it was set up by human beings it does have. Rules was conscious about that. It has lots of institutions the big four branches of it our research which is academia and science of course second is the world journalism the world i come from also fact-based also professionals trying to figure out what's true in a disaggregated decentralized way the third is the world of law people don't know this but the idea of a fact originally comes law predates the world of science because you had to have some facts in common in order to figure out out to rule in case and the fourth is government which has to be reality. Based in order to function until two thousand seventeen january twentieth was fact-based and still mostly is so those are the big four and they all function using a set of rules and lots of institutions. Lots of settings that you have to get right. Which is the problem with. The standard metaphor for where knowledge comes from the marketplace of ideas that assumes free speech is enough and that leaves us vulnerable because you need to get a lot of settings a lot of institutions. You get a lot of rules in place. A lot of professionals and those are easy to attack and are under attack. So that's the idea of my book. Let's talk about the informal norms. That because i think they're so so important in in all these worlds were talking about that. The world it produces knowledge the world that produces political outcomes that the us constitution mediates and the commercial world. Of course the world that that marked real what we would normally call real markets What they deal with an enormous enormous or underrated And i think the last five to ten years as the internet is ramped up in the world has changed a lot of dorms that used to sustain decency and human behave human civilized. Outcomes have been degraded The behavioral expectations of people. In i would say an academic life in journalism and politics have all taken a hit. You all levin. Sure you know his book time to build it was on. You're talking about it. Then somebody people use their platform as a place to perform rather than a place to be obligated to a duty to the to the institution. And i think some of what's going on is that degradation of the institutions is the norms of deteriorated. Will your college president. So you're in some ways. I'm a better position than i am. To speak of that. And your job is going to be to defend those those norms against some of the trends. That you've always talking about. Yeah you follow vince. Wonderful book a time to build. I should be plugging my book. I should be they tell you what you do. You hold it up three times at least there. It is available at a bookstore near.
How Do We Fix It?
"rauch" Discussed on How Do We Fix It?
"Ordinary people becoming more cognizant that they're being manipulated by these tactics. They're being taken in so lots of changes. The tools that are being used here against the constitution of knowledge. They are intentional. They're sophisticated their powerful. We must understand them and we must organize to defend the system. We have and if we don't do that. Yes they win. You mentioned facebook and the facebook advisory or supervisory board. Is this one reason for hope that social media is now challenging itself and also facing challenges from outside. yeah. I think it is five years ago. If you brought up these problems to social media executives i say digital media because i want to include google search engines and stuff like that they would typically say you know first of all. You can't prove it's a serious problem and second wearing the free speech business. This isn't our problem Let the chips fall where they may. There's been adana new understanding the last five years as we've seen just had damaging to democracy disinformation is they're no longer saying that whereas whereas the best minds in a digital media five years ago where pooh-poohing the problem or saying it's not our problem. They now understand that. This is a mortal threat to their business model. Your product is a sewer of unreliable information and harassment. Then people will go away. They also understand the pressures on society from regulation from their audiences and from their own employees. Or not sustainable. So those good minds are now working on the problem. It's a wicked hard problem. But i think they're pointing the right direction Twitter now. You know it's a small thing but these incentives can really change the way platforms operate in now. If you try to tweet out a link that you haven't read watch what happens. It will intervene. It'll say you sure you want to do that. And that's the right kind of thinking that's what we do in science in journalism. When someone says jim this story you've written are you sure..
How Do We Fix It?
"rauch" Discussed on How Do We Fix It?
"Days. And the vaccine was designed first vaccine basically over weekend Journalism journalist my first job. Winston salem journal north carolina. I was a beat reporter and you quickly learn that. Even if you're in a hurry you have to be accurate. You're going to have to pass through an editor who is going to ask you some pretty tough questions. If the thing doesn't be credible. Say i need to look at your notes here. Did you call so and so then you're going to go through a copy dusk. If it's a magazine or creasing lee now online publications. You're going to be fact checked by someone who's gonna save producer sources. Now that can be done in hours not years but those are all gates that you're going to have to go through the past the skeptical scrutiny of others in the system and then something else you know when it goes into print. If you're wrong other people are going to find that out. They'll either write letters or they'll get online or some other outlet will try to follow and say wait a minute davies megs. They completely botched the story you know. Maybe it's the wuhan lab release story about corona virus. The key in all of these fields isn't how fast or slow they move. It's that they're all basically hunting for errors and holding themselves accountable to the other people in the system for their mistakes. That's the magic formula fast or slow. Speaking of the need to check our facts. One troubling example last year and earlier this year was the unwillingness of much of the media to report on or take seriously the wuhan lab leak theory about the origins of covert is that an example of eroding standards and journalism. I don't know about eroding. I worry about journalism because finding facts is so expensive and so painstaking and writing opinions and spouting half truths and tweeting is very very cheap and collects eyeballs. I unlike a lot of people. Actually i disagree with those who see the wuhan lab reporting as a black-eyed journalism when you go back and look at it actually. A lot of outlets did not miss reported. Some did many many did not and the most important thing is that. Why did that hypothesis re-surface months later it was because accomplish mainstream journalists at places like the wall street journal and the new york times stayed on. The story watched it said. Hey wait a minute. Maybe we went to fast. Here's some evidence. Look at what these academics are saying they resurfaced. They brought it back and now we're having kind of almost festival of journalistic navel-gazing to figure out how we got it. So wrong will. That's the system actually working the revolution in human affairs. it is the constitution of knowledge. It says know what everyone makes mistakes and it shouldn't be the end of your career if you just have a hypothesis and it's wrong as long as you hold yourself accountable you print the correction you. Come back and get it right. That means your errors. Your mistakes become fuel for further learning. This is how do we fix it. i'm richard davies. And i'm jim megs. We're speaking with jonathan rauch author of the brand new book the constitution of knowledge. A defense of truth..
How Do We Fix It?
"rauch" Discussed on How Do We Fix It?
"Of small groups that advance knowledge almost euro two hundred thousand years to analyzing the cove in nineteen genome in in days organizing scientists almost overnight to do this work so the key to this transformational technology is that everyone can enter a global conversation with anyone about an idea. I can floating hypothesis in an article. I write and someone who's living in ethiopia Speaks entirely different. Language can write a counterpoint. If i do research people around the world with other views can can weigh in This is the only way to make knowledge that can create a global conversation of people looking for truth and more especially looking for error. Because that's really what we're doing. We're all hunting for each other's mistakes and that's where truth comes from and you said that the system has to be de personalized and decentralized and rules based can you explain how that works in journalism science and other fields. Well that's really the key to the whole enterprise. Anybody can check a statement that they believe were propound by saying I heard it from god. Or i feel it in my gut or it ought to be true or my friend told me. Or it's what we as a group believe That's just not going to get you the truth because you won't spot your errors so it turns out that as with the us constitution. You need checks and balances you need institutions and structures that incentivize people to behave in certain ways so in the us constitution for example. If you wanna make a law and use state power you're going to have to persuade members of congress in two chambers to pass it a president to sign it courts to uphold it factions to support it. It's gonna change along the way because those other people in organizations will all have a say and that's the whole point of the system is to bring all of those mines and all of these factions to bear so the result at the end of the day in may not be exactly what any of the started with will be acceptable to sign so constitution knowledge. Exact same thing. It's it's not just a figure speech. It's not just a metaphor. it's really a social system doing the same thing and it says you know if richard or jim wanna make knowledge. They can't say they can't just believe it. They're going to have to submit it to this global network of people and institutions. that are checking. They're going to have to know the rules for that. Like you're gonna have to know how to write an academic article. If that's what your specialty show you know what you're doing. Show your familiar with the field. Make an evidence. Based argument using experiments that are or using arguments that will work no matter what culture you come from and then other people are going to have at you and it can take ten or twenty years to move through this system. Here's my journalistic pushback. You talk about years i mean. I've i have deadlines every day stories a written for the current news cycle. How does this apply to journalism. As opposed to say the law which does often moves slowly or science where it can be a long process of discovery it can be so in science but remember when we need it to be fast. It can be super fast. The the cove nineteen genome was cracked within ten.
How Do We Fix It?
"rauch" Discussed on How Do We Fix It?
"Advice to listeners. Before we get going there is a swear word that was used once or twice in this episode. yeah. I don't think it's anything that most people are gonna find too jarring but if you have kids in the car with you or other sensitive ears in in your location you might wanna be advised. Okay let's start with a quote from our guest. Jonathan rouch he writes acquiring knowledge is a conversation not a destination. It's the process journey a journey. We take together not alone. Others are always involved. A knowledge is not something. I have more fundamentally. It's something we have. This is such an important concept that are sent to the world. Our knowledge of the world is something that's shaped through a good faith effort of trying to establish facts then challenging those facts to make sure they really hold up discussing them and allowing our understanding of the world to evolve and. This is a process that. Today i worry might be under threat. The constitution of knowledge with jonathan. Rauch maybe.
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"rauch" Discussed on On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"But the second is that the science becomes bad. You stop asking the questions that ought to be asked in the challenges posed by other points of view hub. So we know now. Another important sources statistical information. We know now that in some of the humanities and social sciences conservatives are vanishingly rare like you know in some fields one in fourteen in some fields as low as one in forty eight. It's not true in every field's not to an economics you know so forth and that's becoming an increasing problem it's a recognized problem in academia and also getting recognition increasingly is the existence of discrimination viewpoint discrimination in hiring and in academia. The good news is academics including progressive. Ones are starting to understand that this problem. They wanna do good science. They don't wanna be in an environment where they're isolated where there's only one point of view so there's movement inside the world decides to change that and that's that's what we all need to encourage. This shouldn't be an attack. On universities this should be helping. Universities become their better selves again. He talk about science though but just to be clear. I mean you're talking about science as in physics biology etc or a more broader definition in the world. Thanks for asking. Yeah so. I have this term called liberal science that i used in my first book. Now i just call it the reality based community and. That's all the truth seeking professions. And that's not just the hard science that includes history literary criticism wherever people are saying. Here's a proposition It's true subjecting it to organize debates by others things like peer review or in journalism newsrooms or in courts. You put it in a brief when you put it before a judge or in the cia. You you red team at blue team at to find out what the flaws are. In this view. I mean the whole world of the constitution knowledge seeking truth and that includes as you say the main pillar of that. The central pillar is academia and the research community including the hard sciences. But also including you know humanities History well we are talking this hour with jonathan row. She's author of the new book. The constitution of knowledge a defense of truth and in his book. He brings to light some rather disturbing facts. Such as a recent study in the national association of scholars found that of top liberal arts colleges according to this study thirty nine percent of them had zero republican professors. And that almost eighty percent of academic departments had either zero republicans or so few s to make no difference. Now if you're listening right now. I wanna know if that troubles you are not so..
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"rauch" Discussed on On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
"This is on point. I'm meghan tucker body. The sky is blue fact right well not really because it in fact changes color depending on time of day and where you are okay. Here's another one. It is wrong to murder. Another human being. That's true right except that in war and frequently in the courts the taking of another life is seen as justified and even forgiven. So how about this. One president joe biden freely and fairly won the twenty twenty presidential election. There was no widespread voter fraud. Well that one is a quantifiably measurably and replica. Replicable fact quantifiable measurable and replicable. And yet it is not the truth to everyone more than half of republicans. Continue to believe the election was stolen so these are just a couple of examples of a society in the midst of what. Jonathan rauch calls an episode amick crisis. He's author of the new book the constitution of knowledge a defense of truth and he joins us now. Jonathan welcome to on. I'm happy to be here. Thanks okay so first of all love to start with some definitions episode democ crisis. What do you mean. That's when a society small tribe major nation. Whatever loses the ability to be on what facts are and how we get to fax for public purposes symptoms of that include polarization forking realities extremists civility in hostility and strange tation strange disorientation. Okay tell me a little bit more about that that last one well a good example is the one that you just began with what happened in the election in twenty twenty two completely different stories. No clear way to bring them together. One side just will not believe what the other side believes. This becomes disorienting and lot of people in the middle. Don't really know what to believe anymore. They're in a kind of state of confusion disorientation. Well which side is right and who hacked to the democratic server in two thousand sixteen was at the ukrainians or the russians will never know. We don't know who to believe we don't know who to trust So this is the key thing about The idea of an epa stem crisis. Because it's not just. There are no shared facts anymore or or universally agreed upon. Facts is that people don't even know how to know or how we come about forming those facts or judging those truth. So it's a it's a a hijacking of even the processes of of coming up with reliable knowledge. That is exactly right. People never agree on facts. That's the fundamental truth about all human societies. And it's how societies Have to deal with the problem of bringing together people who disagree. They'll continue to disagree but we hope they can agree. On is a process that leads society toward being able to draw conclusions at least for public purpose. It's like you know some people believe elvis presley is still alive. Do we send him a social security check. No lot of people may still believe that but for public purposes. We figured out a way to come to a conclusion when that breaks down. It's not that we all have to agree but when we can't agree even on a process that's the episode crisis and that's what's happening now so in your book you You hold to account in terms of creation of this epidemic crisis. Both the right and the left and i'm and i'm going to want to dive into specific examples of later in the show but in a sense you open the book with this conundrum. Though that this question of how we know what we know is as old as humanity itself. I mean you. Start with the ancient greeks. Can you tell us a little bit about that. It's the starting question of all philosophy magna. How do we know truth. And how do we know when we know truth because we could at any moment be wrong. Of course you know for all of us their times we were certainly were right. Only discover that we were wrong. This is a problem that plagues humanity the ancients knew it. Modern psychology has greatly elaborated on it. So we know a lot now. We know that the human brains were very good at distinguishing. You know what's true. In immediate circumstances that involve life and death or major stakes where we get immediate feedback like is that a tiger in bush or is that a breeze or where the next tribe camp but on bigger abstract questions like what god do we worship or where does disease come from where bad if that and we were wired to believe things that increase our status in our group and the confirm our identities and our pre existing beliefs are biases will. That's a recipe for entire societies to go down rabbit holes of confirming what they think to each other believing what your friends believe confirming your biases. That's you know in a small scale. That's reverend james jones and his his colt down there in ghana and a very large scale. It's soviet union or it often ends up the sex will break up into Into smaller sex go to war with each other in a large scale. That's the word of religion which lasted one hundred years killed. Maybe thirty percent of the population of germany. That's how people throughout time most of our two hundred thousand years as species. That's how we dealt with disagreements about truth. We went to war. We split into saxon. It did not end well and so what's different than now sounds. It sounds as if we're just doing doing the same thing but a lot faster. Well this is why it's so important to have a constitution knowledge and even more important is to know that we have a constitution because it worked so well for so long that we kind of forgot that we have this thing you know. We thought well free speech. Marketplace of ideas truth will just autumn arise from that. So that's not the case. Starting you know three hundred three hundred fifty years ago. Pick your date. Some people we can name them they're not obscure. John locke is maybe the most famous of them look around at thousands of years of human suffering combat to talibanism dictatorships all getting truth. Wrong doing a terrible job and they say there must be a better way to do this. So instead of having rulers decide what's true in a priest or potentate era prints or a politburo else beginning with p. they say let's have rules instead of rulers figure this out let's set up a system. It's what today we call a social network in which.
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Joshua A. Rauch was arrested Saturday and charged with second degree arson in Houston
"A collaboration of Houston police and the Fire Department's arson bureau has led to an arrest of a suspect for a string of fires in the greater heights area. In the past week or so. 27 year old Joshua Roaches charged with seven counts of second degree arson and the fire marshal says that there could be more cases one neighbour tells or TV partner channel to. He can't figure out the motive. It's just why I think is the biggest like why would you do this to someone? Those fires included vehicles, trash cans and sheds
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The Trump 'clown-iverse' continues
"Another crazy waken US politics. Remember this. Now back they sure you. In fact, let people know Senator I'm not going to answer the question. Because the question. Just as radical left would you out Mason who is on your list? Not. Surprisingly, the media responds to the debate especially Donald Trump's plan rudeness it was overwhelmingly hostile wasn't it? Couple of days later, trump was diagnosed with code. After mixed messages about health trump got in a car and run around waving to supporters. Then he was released from hospital he returned to the White House and he went on one of those twitter rants among other things. He told the American people not covid even though he's doctor has said, he may not entirely be out of the woods yet. So, what does all this main awake after the debate and only weeks before the US presidential election and what does it mean for America's image in the world? For answers. Let's turn to a leading. American Common Taito a conservative who says he's quite sick of living in what he calls Donald Trump's clown verse or drama drivers over believers or I can't believe these guys actually the president. Verse. Brad. Stevens is a columnist with the New York. Times, and formally with the Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing I should just warn you all that he comes to us via a scratchy on in Manhattan. Bread. Welcome back to the Shire. Back Be Sydney. Well, the rate is of the New York Times I can't wait to see the end of trump you yourself are prominent never trump you your New York Times columnist this week you say you was trump will give us just a few reasons why I wish a speedy recovery. I think to wish ill. To reduced to his level on that, of course, it's been. Core of the trump EST project which has been to based political norms and diminish moral standards. So why would I wanNA join trump along along that road a bit for more narrowly political reasons. I. Wish it well, because God forbid he were to die before the election, he would go down so to speak a undefeated. And what I hope is that a resounding electoral defeat in November and I'm speaking of the conservative. will put an end not only to the trump presidency, but she trumpism as a an ideological force. In American politics. Now. You rauch trump. The man needs to leave and lose because it's the only way the trump cult might die it unsubscribe to the cult trump obviously. Is that why you among that never trump was. Are exerting very little influence on the political right in America these days. You know I I hear that and. I was struck by the disconnect between my supposed- irrelevance and irrelevance might never trump fellow travelers. And the fact that the president. Describing us as human scum the conservative press keeps denouncing us if we're really quite so irrelevant, you think they want to go so much energy. Truth. Election that is probably going to turn on a small number of a relatively small number of voters in swing states, and so I think we're not quite so relevant have some people allege and stressed that never trump is include many prominent conservatives lock yourself William Kristol George Will Max Booed David. Brooks. David. From and Applebaum. Jennifer from there among others. But you see your critics would respond inside the Elat media consensus with there on the left or the never trump conservatives they've been consistently against trump wrought from that said. And Nights. I haven't you guys foul to understand what got America trump and indeed Britain brexit in the first place. You know. I'm not quite sure I agree with the analysis. Is and came about in part because there was unquestionably failure of the mainstream conservative establishment, which I guess I was park in recognizing some of the populous tides in American politics. I think it candidate for a much more specifically than which was a luxury crisis. In Europe, but went unchecked help create brexit brexit had knock on effects in the United States. As well, and and I would add a larger point com, which did you those who are listening here are left in any healthy democracy need a mortally healthy a conservative movement. There's no democracy that doesn't have a conservative side of politics. and. So even our adversaries are opponents politically should want us to succeed want a conservative movement that is optimistic that is inclusive that is in favor of growth, and that favors the open society and the free world. That's the way I can feel, okay my politics, they remained unchanged from the days before trump and hopefully will remain unchanged. Have said analysis requires us to listen attentively to individual voters tell us about your subject to Chris you right about her and you'll recent York Times call him. She's a registered Democrat and a trump voting lesbian store manager from Manhattan, and she fits none of the cultural demographic stereotypes of the trump by Brett tell us about Chris. Chris is a woman who is well educated. Well traveled and as you mention, she is She's gay and she the trump supporter and I one of the things that I I occasionally will be with my column in The New York Times. Is. Essentially. handed over not not fully. But at least partially handed over to Voice of that I think the predominantly liberal leadership of the Times. Need to could here because What she observed is that at least until the pandemic, her savings accounts or pension or private pension account for the United States a call four one ks. Arising smart. The economy was doing better in her view than it had been under Obama and that that's the counted for voters like her as opposed to you know questions about the president's mannerisms or read myths or his coarseness on the world stage and I wrote it Tom for the simple reason that Hillary Clinton would it become president? Her supporters hadn't been so convinced. That it was only a bunch of rednecks Yak. In the middle of the country, we're going to the trump. He is indeed and make the point. She's not an outlaw. She's a red voter in a blue state. My guest is Brit Stevens he's an award winning columnist with the New York Times. And we're talking about. Well, let's be frank. The crazy times in American politics. Let's turn to the debate bridge sixty years ago October nineteen sixty. The World Watch the Kenji Nixon debates we were too young. We went even. We weren't even born. To civilized will informed holly. Intelligent. Courteous Navy combat veterans are both in their forties. And yet six decades later. The world's being shocked and horrified. By the time of the first presidential debate these to all men engaging in A. An angry angry exchange is the best the both major parties can offer the American people sixty how's it come to these? You know when I was when my wife I ever watched, my wife has his permanent immigrants United States actually came a citizen. BECCA very. And I have to turn to her engine apologize for bringing her country because it was mortifying fortunately, the United States is a lot more than its leader. But debasement of politics has been long the making and it's one of many reasons why I just can't accept trump as president even though can time-to-time agreeing with his policies because he is he has brought the state about politics shoot a level that. Be chargeable to describe it as over Banana Republic and and you know onto. The Kennedy Nixon debates that I am are well enough to follow up one of the great issues that debate. The status of key Moi in Matsue, he's a little time with his island off the coast of mainland. Just unimaginable that piece to standard standard-bearers would have that kind of exchange although I. Walked by what Action Nowhere Chemo in that. So actually are. Yes you said that Donald Trump in that debate was channeling Alec Baldwin Channeling Donald Trump and yet he was holy himself. I get all that but is a more wrong with America than Donald, trump, Brad Stevens yet they're into lot more. You know I think Adam Smith Donald trump is a symptom of of some of that ruined but in seeking to an Australian audience I think it's worth remembering and reminding this audience that there could. Be Fixed his right in America
Software Engineering Daily
How has React changed web development?
"Rush. Welcome back to software engineering daily things having me again. We're about six years into the release of react. How his React Change Web Development? I've been saying for a while. Now that I think broadly the most exciting paradigm shift of react has been moving away from templates into components. If we had to summarize the great innovation I think has been to create a workflow for teams to see the rise of the signed systems to give people greater ability composition power and ultimately empowering the front end developer. I think before especially with templates were confined to servers surrendering things that would do. Spin Abacha. Jvm Box and write some temple leading language and then just not care about the front. That's much anything. React has made people gravitate in the opposite direction. You know even teams that were not that fun of J S Realize. Hey to build a world class front would probably have to use this reacting the development of react application has gotten easier over time. What was the boiler plate that was historically needed for starting a react application? How have they gotten simpler? That's a great way to put it. I think there was a lot of boy to play in fact when we started next Jay. S which was solving the problem of making react application top to bottom entire experience. We are seeing a lot of GETUP repos floating around that were basically copy paste of boilerplate. S- they weren't providing a framework on an altogether solution. They were like hey clone this boilerplate and then started making changes. And then you'll diverge from the border played at some point because you're not merging changes back in so we created next year. Solve that problem. Exactly it was okay. Reinserted as a as an embassy was kind of like component specific library and wanted to create an entire obligation with react. Next year it's kind of became that
Crypto Voices
Michel Rauchs - Benchmarking Bitcoin
"So very happy to have Michelle on one of the first shows here to start the year in twenty twenty Michelle. Thanks for joining the welcome much batting. Yeah really appreciate you coming on. I've been wanting to have you on for a while. Actually just done You guys over there at Cambridge And curious to learn more about doing a pair of dignity and you've done Just wonderful wonderful work past few years in in Bitcoin and Crypto blockchain. Just a lot of fantastic nick research that certainly will linked to our users haven't already heard Of the work that you're doing but I guess just to just to start for those that don't no. Can you provide a little bit of background for us on sort of how you got into Crypto and Bitcoin and everything at Cambridge. Yeah sure so interested in Financial in systems and especially monetary systems so the different types of the exist how they achieve over time and then in house and cheating you once come up of slowly successions sessions and so yeah. It's been quite a bit of time researching and then I stumbled upon bitcoin into fourteen which interests Pretty much right away. I have had no idea what exactly was what it meant. And how he worked so is essentially took the form university. I need teams Just to research basic so getting benching computer science but also Economics Game Theory and even the politics of it and so as a result of this Masa `this is only kind business ecosystem so collected data of thing was around five hundred different even companies on projects in the space and visualize evolution of the system structure Over the first five years of its existence is that that's how we got into both cryptocurrency space and just off the wedge trading. I didn't we know what to do. Call the professor anew anew worst sees what it didn't know as he actually moved to Cambridge on to join the central ten defines these and pick a benchmarking studies and so I never wego almost study which was reason. I don't take the time you've got a job instead. So that was pretty good Any associate India There as assistant so we CO author team benchmarking studies where we reached out to companies in space but surveys and Indian off the yellow took over as the program and lost two years. They're doing quite a bit of studies and other things any indication Asian material in in that kind of stuff well presentations and just recently. Six months ago moved back to Mike. Country CI launched a consulting firm. You were essentially help. Individuals and situations to navigate. This complex landscape which is in most cases means convincing companies. Why light they shouldn't start to own the press? blockchain shamed him if you were think about alternate s. both internal technical as little so upon business perspective. It's very interesting. I think to describe it So that his DIG MMA your company. There you're referencing. What sort of Things than would would you direct companies to. What sort of sort of advice would you give them? If it is not to start their own enterprise blockchain in many cases. There is absolutely city. No need to do that so we came. She opened in one of the study. Said I offered said Cambridge with a term the cold the blockchain mean where it's pretty bad idea that blockchain this concept is one. We in abstract thing has become an abstract thing that can use as a political tool to either Detroit organizational change actually overcome organization in show. I'm so when we talk T- Stuff it's Eddie engine. Eighteen innovate bank. They if they sold the IT project which is essentially nothing else than Upgrade alone over to Um to infrastructure to essentially portrayal frame it as has a blockchain project. Then they will get executive buying and the budget to that. Although of course they knew they would use anything. That's remove close to what we would consider boxing. A which is waiting in because the guy gets better infrastructure The management has something to sell his public in terms of like. Look how over to your. Your engineering team is happy because finding the budget so in the end. It's kind of like a win win. Situation the only problem is that it just creates edition confusion. I guess at the Public Nick Timber. Wolves isn't what it can achieve so that creates a lease a very unrealistic expectations and so a rule. There is first and foremost almost Telling them what action actually is. Winning the project looks more like a blockchain move and then actually showing some alternatives so essentially focusing on specific civic elements log digital signatures like a public infrastructure cryptographic hashing algorithms in order to essentially a team that business case without atten overheads and disadvantages said in a real blockchain would actually cover okay. Is there a view. Then that you're taking specifically now regarding eighty enterprise consulting and blockchain's whether it's smart contracts on a theory or Peter. Todd's open timestamps on Bitcoin. Essentially many cases it's exactly that and so most companies would actually be better off by just Um Breglio occasionally Thompson thing system states in blockchain because that would just be a little more cost efficient and secure repudiation then building their own to know blockchain that's controlled by them but just in many tatum vans jazzy. Both thing the hype at least in the and the press blockchain industry or community of the hype is stated away and has given room to actually Syria's series initiatives now. Most of these initiatives have numb that much in common with these multi-party consensus systems. But it's we need more bads. It's a lot less about about multi-party consensus systems. But by creating shed infrastructure it's not controlled by one single entity more three consortium or joint ventures and and it's just taking a long time actually get to that point and that was mostly because of corporate governance talking about it's ten different things that our competitors and that we want to build a shed infrastructure that they use but nobody owns while that's quite complex and complicated Actually kickoff so now after we three four years of development of intensity station so we we see the first networks actually deploy and think it's actually really exciting developments. It has not that much to do. With willow would consider blockchain's more about its cryptographic shared infrastructure which deafening those benefits. Everyone involved including the end customer Indians. Well
This Morning With Gordon Deal
Farewell, 'The Big Bang Theory'
"More than a decade on the air, the big bang theory ends tonight. Fox's Michelle Pollino. CBS sends off its most popular television comedy with a one hour series finale, the big bang theory, twelve year run after having scored some of the networks, highs rate, and turn it stars received some of Hollywood's highest salaries, this show starring Jim Parsons, Johnny lucky Kelly cocoa, Simon Helberg canal, Nihar, miam-, Bialik, and Melissa Rauch produce, two hundred seventy nine episodes filled with love penny. Laughter. Plenty of Star Trek from this Sheldon live long, and prosper, Leonard nimoy, and of course. Buzinga quotable Sheldon
Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe
Global Stocks Outlook
"With that this morning as we say Asian stocks are mixed fluctuating after positive data on China's economy raised doubts over additional stimulus. But it does look like the stimulus has been working thus far taking a look at the major indexes overnight. We see the Nikkei and the topics up a quarter percent or or more of the Hang Seng in Hong Kong, though, down two tenths of a percent. And the CSI three hundred the broader Chinese index is also down about one tenth of one percent. So very interesting after we saw the Chinese economy growing six point four percent taking a look at the futures trade early in the session here, we see negative trade on footsie few. Features and one tenth of one percent. Dax futures unchanged right now, and US futures all showing a positive trade. So a lot of times it takes a while to work out these prices in the morning, we could see some swings here or there. So let's take a look at some other risk indicators to see which way things could go US ten year. Treasury yield is very little changed at two point five nine four percent. So it did come up substantially in the last twenty four hours but currently hovering around two point six we see gold at twelve seventy seven. So it fell decently over the last twenty four hours, but is now on its way back up, and we see a yen little changed at one eleven nine. Almost one twelve right now, the euro holding at one thirteen a pound at one thirty sixty one and we have some breaking news here out of Sweden, Switzerland right now. Now Rauch is raising its guidance for two thousand nineteen taking a look at the ticker or g at SP as as as the one I use raising its two thousand nineteen sales growth guidance to mid single digit percentage. So basically saying, you know, four five six percent sales growth in two thousand nineteen sees core EPS earnings per share growing broadly in line with sales. So if you wanted to a look at what's going on in terms of Russia's forecasts. You've got it there. It did report. First quarter sales beating the analysts estimates, in fact, beating all including the highest analysts estimates so watch for Roche
Between The Lines
Why the 2019 Indian election feels different to 2014
"Today. We chat with one of the world's leading communists about India richer Shama from Morgan Stanley. He's argument is that in rural India old class divisions. Still rule local politics which could spell trouble for Narendra Modi in my elections, plus climate change student politics, a divide between two impressive school students. Stay with us for that. Well, you might recall Narendra Modi's landslide election victory five years ago. How to believe but twenty four nine huge landslide election victory Ahmadi. Now, we lived the BJP this is the Hindu nationalist party live them to power. This was the first Indian prime minister in thirty years to govern without a coalition any Hedda rare opportunity to enact market friendly reforms that had stalled under his predecessor Manmohan Singh now until relatively recently Modi's BJP was odds on favorite to be reelected. But such as the magic politics that Modi's chances of victory. And now fifty fifty says, my guest richer Shama is chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley investment management. And he's author of a terrific new book called democracy on the road at twenty five year journey through India as just out by penguin Random House richer. Welcome back to between the lines Gregory back with your own thing. What do you think Modi's? Reelection is no longer a sure thing I think that when I wrote the book, and he was coming across a very United opposition. You just mentioned about how you wanna landslide victory in two thousand fourteen but one very important statistic. From that election was that he only or his party only got thirty one percent of the total vote share in India, and he was able to win a majority of the seats because the parliamentary democracy is so fag minted in India that the opposition is quite divided and you get a disproportionate number of seats with even thirty percent of the vote. So what was changing over the Bosnia? Is that a lot of the opposition parties in India state by state were coming together to put up a United front against that removes? That's really what was changing and why at taught is fog ability or winning the election was now much more fifty fifty than sort of hundred percent probably than most bookies were giving him. I'd say. Euro even to ago now, the only thing which has changed, and this is the changing nature of politics and any country, especially in India is the last couple of weeks they've had this escalated tension between India and Pakistan, and that's sort of please into Modi's hand. So I would say that once again, the the momentum has shifted back in his favor. Just because of the very unexpected develop in that taking place over the past few weeks, the accidents of history we've had on this program. Several times of the last five years, Richard Soudan, undo my from the American Enterprise Institute, you know, and he said that in two thousand fourteen there was an ABC mood that is anybody, but congress this is the the left of center ruling party for so long in India's history. You don't really see an anti Mody y emerging. Then do you know, I think if election is not about that his base remains pretty much intact. But I said the big difference that the opposition is coming together in many states. I'm critical battleground states such as the most populous state of India with really two hundred million people in such critical states the opposition is coming together. And when they do that, then typically the the leading party tends to be in trouble. That's the history of Indian politics. So that to me is the big dynamic at currently. Yes. So in a way, you're saying that these elections in my they more likely to shape up as a series of state contests. It's not really a nationwide contest between Mody and congress is it. That's right know, that the outside world likes to think of it that way because the two names that sort of resonate most with the outside world. I I now in the Gumby dine in but it's important to member that booties. Put together the total vote share in. India is Bailey fifty percent five zero. And so the other half is about all these regional parties in India. And that's really what I've tried to bring out in my book, which that this is the story of many India's India's less a country that our continent like the European Union with many states Funk's practically functioning like countries. And I think that that is the story of India which gets lost in translation to the outside world often. Now, this new book of yours democracy on the road. It's the result of your travels through India following election campaigns, pretty much since the lighten awning ninety south of the last twenty years, and you Rauch quote in an era when democracy is said to be in retreat worldwide, it's thriving in India. Yeah. That's the curse of the fact that when I've traveled for these elections, I find it soon remarkable that despite only advantages that the incumbent
Single-dose flu pill wins FDA approval ahead of winter season
"Health regulators have approved the first new type of flu drug in two decades. Last winter the government counted some eighty thousand Americans who died a flu and it's complications the highest death toll in at least four decades. Now just in time for this year's flu season comes a new pill. Zo flus the pharmaceutical firm Rauch, which also makes tamiflu says Zo flu can reduce flu symptoms after just one dose and it works about as
Sean Hannity
Wedding guests in Texas rescued from rising floodwater
"In Texas wasn't rain down. They were flooded out from the rapidly rising. San Gabriel river guests had camped out in our visa intense writing waiting for Saturday's wedding ceremony. The father of the group says the water came up so quickly. There was no time to escape were camping out down there too intense, and they had to rescue some people from top of the cars rather cars got Rauch down the river. The Williamson county sheriff's office began receiving calls in the early hours of Saturday. Asking for water rescues some guests had to climb trees to escape water. This