Today on the Dish, Andrew rejected Sam Harris' defense of torture in the name of humanity, expressed disgust for the "doctors" at Gitmo, and defended his cognitive biases against Palin, and asked his critics to own up to theirs. Andrew pushed back against bullies in the gay rights movement, and glimpsed the onset of the Chinese century due to our inability to accept the urgency of the debt crisis. Trump lowered the standards for the GOP pool, Ron Paul brought integrity to the debate, and contra Wick Allison, Andrew still preferred Obama to the horror of a McCain presidency. Haley Barbour concluded his invisible primary, Syria's army fired on its people, and China animal rights activists persevered.
Niall Ferguson explained China's interest in the copper market, Conor Friedersdorf was unnerved by bidding for dates, and Andrew lobbied for a federal lottery to fund "heritage" programs. Paul Campos questioned law school employment numbers, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo turned our assumptions about hunger on their head, and we contemplated living with violence. Readers defended corporate speak, schooled us on the gas tax, and debated Mormonism with Andrew. We skimmed through Tina Brown's royal wedding primer, Brits protested for marriage equality, and a widower had to sell his home. We heralded beard wars, wedding wars, and hampster judges. Andrew dismissed the Hunky Jesus contest, Americans despised Congress, and Canadian populists attacked.
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–Z.P.
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