Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral dilemma of their own over the latest Platner revelations, given the moral imperative of having a Senate that obstructs Trump’s worst policies. Questions of morality also surface with AI, particularly if we allow machines to do the thinking for us. Plus, the Dems need a Wemby, an American debt crisis seems inevitable, the global fertility crisis may be too hard to fix, and why is the English-language world the most unhappy? 

Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller.

show notes

• “The Next Level” pod will be out later today
• Derek’s piece on vicemaxxing
• Derek on the great AI cost panic
• The “Plain English” pod, hosted by Derek
• “Mere Christianity,” by C.S. Lewis
• “Pluribus”