There's a transcript at the NYT, which is what I used.
I'm always amazed at the people I know who post seven YT vids and two podcasts a day from some left-wing political influencer - many close to the same age as my students. Most of those are haphazardly arranged and not very cohesive, and more noise than signal.
I want information, and I want it to be accessible, not padded out for good engagement numbers and juiced for the outrage algorithm.
At least with a transcript I can skim and find the things that are worthwhile, and then use that to anchor my further reading.
2 weeks ago
I had to chase down a transcript because I refuse to give over an hour of time to what is at best 15 minutes of substance.
I like Talarico as a Christian reformer. He's speaking for a lot of the values that used to be present in evangelicalism back before it was radicalized by anti-abortion rhetoric. I also like his ability to use the language of Christianity against the Christian nationalists. And I think he's good at speaking to non-Democrats in a way that makes them feel as if they have been heard and understood, and been treated with compassion.
I'm not sure, however, that his approach to things is going to move the needle on immigration or on social justice for minorities. I think his framing and appeals mostly decenter any conversation about those things in meaningful detail and zoom out until those details become too fuzzy to register as things in the big picture. That's not to say that he doesn't care about or support those issues - I know he does - I'm just not sure that those issues can be addressed with the sort of compromises and conversations that he gives as examples of how to bring political opponents together.
I'll start to pay more attention to Talarico when I start to see him opening up space for AOC to feature in the discussion.
Also, Klein talks too much and he is, for all of his talk about needing open discussion and bringing people together, really quite focused on elevating the aisle-crossers and code-switchers and trying to goad them into saying what is wrong with the disruptive progressives on their own side.
If you don't have access to the NYTimes, you can find a transcript here:
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-ezra-klein-show/can-james-talarico-reclaim-christianity-for-the-left
...scroll down.
There's a transcript at the NYT, which is what I used.
I'm always amazed at the people I know who post seven YT vids and two podcasts a day from some left-wing political influencer - many close to the same age as my students. Most of those are haphazardly arranged and not very cohesive, and more noise than signal.
I want information, and I want it to be accessible, not padded out for good engagement numbers and juiced for the outrage algorithm.
At least with a transcript I can skim and find the things that are worthwhile, and then use that to anchor my further reading.
I had to chase down a transcript because I refuse to give over an hour of time to what is at best 15 minutes of substance.
I like Talarico as a Christian reformer. He's speaking for a lot of the values that used to be present in evangelicalism back before it was radicalized by anti-abortion rhetoric. I also like his ability to use the language of Christianity against the Christian nationalists. And I think he's good at speaking to non-Democrats in a way that makes them feel as if they have been heard and understood, and been treated with compassion.
I'm not sure, however, that his approach to things is going to move the needle on immigration or on social justice for minorities. I think his framing and appeals mostly decenter any conversation about those things in meaningful detail and zoom out until those details become too fuzzy to register as things in the big picture. That's not to say that he doesn't care about or support those issues - I know he does - I'm just not sure that those issues can be addressed with the sort of compromises and conversations that he gives as examples of how to bring political opponents together.
I'll start to pay more attention to Talarico when I start to see him opening up space for AOC to feature in the discussion.
Also, Klein talks too much and he is, for all of his talk about needing open discussion and bringing people together, really quite focused on elevating the aisle-crossers and code-switchers and trying to goad them into saying what is wrong with the disruptive progressives on their own side.