Rationally Speaking Podcast

The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

Feb 3, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
Is the Homestead Act a Good Idea?
03:52 • 3min
3
Is There a Balance of High Versus Low-Skill Immigration?
06:32 • 4min
4
Why Haven't We Boosted High-Skill Immigration?
10:03 • 5min
5
Is That a Log Rolling Chip?
15:14 • 2min
6
Climate Change - Is That a Deal Breaker?
17:26 • 2min
7
Climate Change Is Not Like That
19:44 • 2min
8
Is There a Consensus on Climate Change?
21:34 • 3min
9
Is That Because of a Change in Their Views or Just Political Alignment?
24:19 • 3min
10
The Case for Building More Housing
27:34 • 5min
11
Are You a Yimby?
32:27 • 4min
12
Urbanization Without Displacement
36:15 • 2min
13
Is Market Rate Housing a Sufficient Solution to Low Income Housing?
38:08 • 3min
14
Do You Have Character Assessments for Your Arguments?
41:36 • 4min
15
The Threatening Storm by Ken Pollock - Is That Really a Good Book?
45:44 • 2min
16
Is There Really a Need for Disdiscretionary Wars?
47:51 • 2min
17
Is Saddam Hussein a Threatening War?
50:05 • 4min
18
The Risk of Nuclear War Increasing
53:42 • 2min
19
Should I Have Known Better Than to Support the War?
56:04 • 4min
20
I Don't Have a Good Sense of What Is Strong Evidence of a Nuclear Program
59:41 • 3min
21
Is There a Difference Between Good Arguments and Bad Arguments?
01:03:09 • 2min
22
Are You Making Bad Arguments?
01:05:04 • 2min
23
QAnon - Isn't It a Trap?
01:06:37 • 5min
24
Do You Feel Like You've Got a Better Taste for Arguments?
01:11:40 • 2min
25
Is That Update You're Talking About With Regard to Foreign Policy Establishment?
01:13:14 • 2min
26
Trust Expertise in the Public Health Community?
01:15:04 • 4min
27
Bioethics
01:19:26 • 2min
28
Is There a Principled Case Against Yimby?
01:21:43 • 3min
29
Clustering Effects
01:24:32 • 5min
30
The Housing Crisis in Japan
01:29:22 • 4min
31
Inequality Impacts Asset Prices, Right?
01:33:34 • 2min
32
Is There a Quantitative Limit on Urban Development?
01:35:20 • 5min