Slow Boring

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Slow Boring is a news podcast hosted by Matthew Yglesias, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Matthew Yglesias hosts Slow Boring, a news show with 19 episodes published.

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  The strategic case against Chinese EVs

  May 21, 202613 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com<br/><br/><p>In this week’s episode of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas just wants to buy a car and is mad as hell that the American government has de facto banned imports of the Chinese electric vehicles that are setting world markets on fire. </p><p>I am annoyed that the climate movement, which is constantly imposing politically and economically destructive ideas on the Democratic Party, is not instead focused on this pro-growth means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But beyond my petty pe...

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  What the Spirit debate is really about

  May 14, 202610 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com<br/><br/><p>Spirit Airlines is dead, and the right, true to form, is blaming Joe Biden.</p><p>But the proximate cause is very clear: The war with Iran spiked jet fuel costs, and the already-battered airline couldn’t absorb the hit to its bottom line. Spirit also had fundamental problems — a Pratt & Whitney engine recall that grounded a huge share of its fleet, legacy carriers copying its unbundled-fare model and capturing some of its customer base. The odds are good, in fact, that i...

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  Matt and Jerusalem read Betty Friedan’s classic, “The Feminine Mystique”

  May 7, 202615 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com<br/><br/><p>Jerusalem and I had an idea. What if we went back and read a classic, massively influential, widely discussed political book that neither of us had actually read? The kind of book that we suspect lots of people mention frequently without having actually read. </p><p>Our first choice was Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, the work that more than any other defines second-wave feminism. </p><p>When we actually cracked it open, we found that the broad outlines tr...

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  Should we miss hypocritical idealism in American foreign policy?

  Apr 23, 202610 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com<br/><br/><p>Donald Trump practices a form of foreign policy without much in the way of high ideals. He’s nakedly transactional, speaks openly of stealing other countries’ oil, and has no time for the promotion of democracy or human rights around the world.</p><p>He’s a terrible president, but I kind of appreciate his frank casting of world affairs in national interest terms. It makes it straightforward to evaluate a question like: is the ongoing war with Iran serving the intere...

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  Destroy the internet to save it?

  Apr 16, 202610 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.slowboring.com<br/><br/><p>One nice thing about podcasting is that you can talk through ideas that seem important but where your own thoughts are a bit unsettled. </p><p>Jerusalem thinks the internet would probably be better if everyone had to use their real names. I don’t want to engage in apologetics for the actually existing internet or for the average quality of the anonymous poste…</p>

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