Sunday June 7, 2020
Speakers
Kathleen Cagney
Topic: Race, Age, Violence, Community and Covid19.
Bio: Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Director, Population Research Center, NORC.
Reading Assignment
Download Kathleen Cagney Episode
Kathleen Cagney QA
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Barry Eichengreen
Topic: How Do Countries Return to Normal Debt/GDP after a war or catastrophe?
Bio: George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Reading Assignment
Download Barry Eichengreen Episode
Barry Eichengreen QA
Download Barry Eichengreen QA Episode
Bryan Caplan
Topic: Poverty
Bio: Professor of Economics at George Mason University and author of The Case against Education.
Reading Assignment
Bryan Caplan QA
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Jonathan Haidt
Topic: Why do conservatives want to open up the economy and liberals want to keep it closed?
Bio: Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU Stern School and Author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are divided by Politics and Religion
Reading Assignment: The Righteous Mind (Chapter 2)
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Jonathan Haidt QA
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John Birge
Topic: Controlling Epidemic Spread, Reducing Economic Losses with Targeted Closures
Bio: Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School
Read Assignment
John Birge QA
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Ted Conover
Topic: Why do the police behave the way they do?
Bio: Teaches the journalism of empathy at NYU and he has written four books including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. An account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at NY’s Sing Sing’s Prison.
Reading Assignment: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Chapter 4
Barry Latzer
Topic: Don’t Call Rioters Protesters
Bio: Professor Emeritus at NY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America.
Reading Assignment
Barry Latzer QA
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Jonathan Bean
Topic: Why will the Riots hurt small businesses?
Bio: Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor History at Southern Illinois University
Read Burn, Baby, Burn: Small Business in the Urban Riots of the 1960s.
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Jonathan Bean QA
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Michael Tollin
Topic: Why did The Last Dance dominate Covid19 sports entertainment?
Bio: Executive Producer of The Last Dance
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Michael Tollin QA
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Questions for Speakers