On this week’s The Cause Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman chime in on the most recent developments in Donald Trump’s cupboard appointments and the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE).
00:28—Fred Smith tribute
04:58—Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) takes form
18:58—Trump’s FCC choose and free speech
31:38—Weekly listener query
38:54—Tulsi Gabbard vs. the Deep State
49:31—This week’s cultural suggestions
Talked about on this podcast:
“Thank You, Fred Smith,” by Ryan Younger
“Fred Smith: ‘The Different To Innovation Is Not Stability. It is Stagnation,'” by Nick Gillespie
“Bullish on DOGE,” by Liz Wolfe
“DOGE Can Succeed by Scaling Again Its Ambitions,” by Brian Riedl
“Incoming FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s Beef With NewsGuard Is Legally Doubtful and Empirically Shaky,” by Jacob Sullum
“The New FCC Chairman’s Agenda Contradicts Conservative Rules,” by Jacob Sullum
“Trump’s Choose To Run the FCC Needs To Limit the Editorial Discretion of Social Media Platforms,” by Jacob Sullum
“We Do not Want RFK Jr. To ‘Make America Wholesome Once more,'” by Kelvey Vander Hart
“5 Phony Public Well being Scares,” by Ronald Bailey
“‘Impurifying our valuable bodily fluids’: Concern of fluoridation takes a left flip,” by Ronald Bailey
“No, DOJ Should not Examine Tulsi Gabbard for ‘False Russian Propaganda,'” by Robby Soave
“It Will Be a Lovely Day When the Air Power Bombs All of the Colleges Having Bake Gross sales,” by Nick Gillespie
“Tulsi Gabbard Conspiracy Theories Go Mainstream as Hillary Clinton Accuses the Candidate of Being Groomed by Russia,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
“Hillary Clinton Says Donald Trump Is an Illegitimate President and Tulsi Gabbard Is a Russian Device,” by Robby Soave
“Tulsi Gabbard’s Nice Second From Final Night time’s Democratic Debate,” by Nick Gillespie by Robby Soave
“Gladiator II* Is a Lavish, Empty Spectacle,” by Peter Suderman
“Dispatch From Trump World: The Spirit of ’24,” by Nancy Rommelmann
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Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve
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- Producer: Hunt Beaty