357 - w/ Lara Bazelon “This Podcast is Violence”

Another two-parter: the first half with our new favorite lefty Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, journalist, feminist, novelist, controversialist. After Lara leaves, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.usfca.edu/newsroom/media-relations/news-releases/lara-aazelon-appointed-to-chair-new-innocence-commission">probably to free someone from prison</a>, the lads take the second half of the show to catch up on the stupid and depressing news of the week.<br/><br/>- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA_5a0miWk">Baaaa-zelon</a><br/>- Broken clock: Lara thinks Betsy DeVos had a point&#8230;<br/>- The lefty case for free speech and due process on campus<br/>- Lara&#8217;s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/629808/"><em>Atlantic</em></a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/629808/"> piece</a> on how the ACLU lost its way&#160;<br/>- From Skokie to the lady from <em>Aquaman</em><br/>- The social justice cafeteria<br/>- The ACLU&#8217;s face of gender violence is a rich actress who probably beat up her husband<br/>- Like this podcast, courtrooms are rhetorically &#8220;violent.&#8221; Get used to it.<br/>- <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Unwanted-Advances-Sexual-Paranoia-Campus/dp/0062657860/ref=sr_1_2?crid=18RXFEAZT6TYG&#38;keywords=kipnis&#38;qid=1652455832&#38;sprefix=kipnis%2Caps%2C55&#38;sr=8-2">That Laura Kipnis book </a><br/>- That sold out live show in NYC next week (with special guest hints)<br/>- The Dems failed borsh bill<br/>- Cooling inflation that is still really hot and &#8220;barreling ahead&#8221;<br/>- The failure of Trump&#8217;s trade policy<br/>- The anti-commie case against Ron DeSantis&#8217;s performative anti-communism&#160;<br/>- <em>And so much more!</em><br/><em>- Stop being cheap and subscribe below. The money kind of subscribe. Because every dollar helps pay off Matt&#8217