The “Will The Carroll Verdict Hurt Trump?” Edition
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Platz analyze E. Jean Carroll's $83.3 million win for Donald Trump. The events of 1920-1948 that define contemporary relations between Israel and Palestine; and Techno-Billionaires Techno-Authority with Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance.
Here are some notes and links to this week's show:
Eric Lach for The New Yorker: Nine Normal People Tell Donald Trump to Just Pay.
Monica Hesse for The Washington Post: Is Trump a real sexist? Or is it something worse?
Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher for The New York Times: Trump's PAC has spent nearly $50 million on legal fees in 2023.
Eric Larson for Fortune and Bloomberg: Much of Trump's money is at stake as he faces double convictions in E. Jean Carroll and the $450 million business fraud case in New York.
CBS News: Face the Nation and Emily Tillett: Nikki Haley on Trump accusers: Women who accuse someone 'need to be heard' and 'dealt with'
ABC News Gabriela Abdul-Hakim: Tim Scott says voters don't give a damn about Trump's smear, launches 'brutal' attack on Halle
Dietrich Knauth for Insurance Journal: Sandy Hook Denier Alex Jones considers family settlement and bankruptcy.
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: A Road to 1948, Was Peace Even Possible?
Adrienne LaFrance for The Atlantic: The rise of technopower
Ezra Klein for The New York Times: The Core Ideology of Silicon Valley's Elite Has Strange Thoughts
Steven Levy for Wired: The tech billionaire lost to techno-optimism.
Jonathan Taplin for Vanity Fair: How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg and Andreessen (four billionaire tech oligarchs) are creating an alternative, selfish reality.
Lisa Desjardins and Jonas Anderson for PBS NewsHour: Lawmakers question Big Tech CEOs, accuse them of failing to protect children.
The Learning Curve of Dictatorship: The Global Battle for Democracy, William J. Dobson
Here are this week's talks:
Emily: The Fight to Save the City: Reimagining Abandoned America by Michelle Wilde Anderson
John: pen tips; Toluse Orginipa and Liz Goodwin for The Washington Post: Hunt approves Senate deal and Jacob Boggage and Jeff Stein: House votes to expand child tax credit, strengthen corporate tax cuts.
David: Visual Arts, St. Albanes School; John Boothby for The Advocate: LSU students describe them all as nude models: "It's a very brave thing to do"; and Kim McGill for The Fellowship: The Bare Truth: El Camino Art Designs inspire students to portray humanity in all its forms.
Listener Discussion by Jay Lloyd of Louisville, Kentucky: Eric Berger for Ars Technica: What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
In this week's Slate Plus bonus episode, David, John, and Emily talk about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's love story and the message of MAGA madness: you need to chill out. See Mariana Alfaro for the Washington Post: Why Trump's Republican MAGA movement doesn't like Taylor Swift and Ross Doughty for the New York Times: Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and the problem with the right.
At the final Gabfest reading, John spoke with Brad Stuhlbarg about his book How to Succeed When Everything Changes, Including You.
Send your chats, questions and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Publications may be cited by name unless otherwise specified by the author.)
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