I'll put it to you, Twitter:
Should @ezraklein and I do a podcast together?
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Two pre-conditions. 1. You calm down and try very hard to be as charitable as possible to Ezra. Assume obviousness or even incompetence before malice. 2. Ezra compares the original Vox piece with his own recent piece and notices that the former insinuated Sam was a racist.
1b. Assume Ezra is slick, unprincipled, helpless to stop virtue-signaling to his Vox base, surrounded by sycophants who rarely challenge his priors, unused to serious debate by someone who knows more than him, and uninterested in updating his views given evidence.
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It is a little weird, but that's the price of admission when you're a socially-progressive, sex-positive, utilitarian, libertarian, centrist committed to Effective Altruism and grounded in evolutionary psychology. There are only two of us, but we're invariably correct. ;)
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What, would he have to expect any of this?
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That would be a very good way to guarantee a terrible conversation.
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I have to disagree - they each talked past the other.
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Are you aware that Ezra has his own podcast, and the central theme is that he brings on people to talk to that know more than him, and they don't always line up with Ezra's point of view?Inside Vox, people like
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I'm guessing he does not.
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Woah. This sounds way off base from my casual experience. Do you have any examples? Not saying I'm certain you're wrong... but haven't heard a take this strong on this before. I don't follow him but when I've seen Ezra's work, it always seems measured and reasonable.
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Check my reply to his tweet, it IS off base.
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