It’s a two-man show this week as Eric Kohn and Dan Hugger begin by discussing the slap heard ’round the entertainment world. In the event you haven’t heard yet, actor Will Smith stormed the Oscars stage last night to slap Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Was it staged? Was it real? Can we know? Does it matter? Speaking of blurring the lines of reality and fantasy, next Eric and Dan examine the stolen Jan. 6 text messages from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. How much of politics now is just playacting of the kind we see in Hollywood? Finally, what is a woman? Perhaps Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t define one, but Dan and Eric can. 

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Will Smith slaps Chris Rock (Warning: NSFW language)

Sorry, but Chris Rock Had It Coming | Rod Dreher, The American Conservative

Texts Show Ginni Thomas’s Embrace of Conspiracy Theories | The New York Times

Justice Scalia Won | Dan McLaughlin, National Review

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