(0:00) Chamath and Jason welcome Pete Buttigieg (1:31) Why the Democrats lost tech (6:40) Taxes: Federal wealth tax, wealth disparity, billionaires, the role of government in the free market (23:17) Government efficiency: Democratic DOGE, breaking ranks on debt, his plan to control spending (33:01) Culture Wars: The costly role of democratic identity politics, navigating a primary with moderate views, the two Democratic Parties (40:07) Immigration: Trump shutting the border, Biden’s failure (47:38) Working ...

Supporters of “identity politics” claim to be standing up for rights against unjust power. So do their opponents. If both claim to be “liberal”, does the word mean much at all? This is not a new problem: three post-war thinkers debated the same question https://t.co/xAQ35ERe4Z ...

Our primer explores how the rise of identity politics and increasingly polarised discourse threatens John Rawls’s ideal of a society where people are sufficiently committed to pluralism to sustain democracy https://t.co/bWGyJNhVeR ...

Joining me now is Ben Rhodess, former deputy national security adviser under President Obama. He's the co-host of Pod Save the World. He's an MSNBC political contributor.He's the author of After the Fall, the rise of authoritarianism in the world we've made. Ben, that that sounded all very somber, but I actually found it very hopeful. I I think there's a point here, right.that that we are all in the business of being critical and holding to account the government that is doing some remarkably destructive th ...