Ed Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times.
This interview was taped on 3/12
REFERENCES AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
From Q&A:
Manafort
- An article from the NYT on Manafort’s sentencing by Judge Amy Berman Jackson in D.C.
- A comment from Manafort’s lawyer, Kevin Downing, suggesting his client was selectively prosecuted
- An indictment of Paul Manafort by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; plus an article from the NYT on the DA’s charges
College Admissions Scandal
- Listener question from Still Paul
- The college admissions scandal indictment, and a report from NPR about the scandal
- The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, plus an article from the NYT about RICO lawsuits
DOJ policy on indicting a president
- The 1973 and 2000 Office of Legal Counsel memos
From the interview:
Luce
- Luce’s most recent book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism
- Luce’s Financial Times op-ed, “America’s unexpected socialist dawn,” plus Luce’s op-ed page
Trump
- An article from Vox on Michael Cohen’s closing statement from his 2/27 testimony before Congress, including his remarks on 2020
- A list from NPR of strongmen Trump has praised
Negative partisanship
- An op-ed from the Washington Post about negative partisanship and Newt Gingrich
- A paper by Emory political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster, “All Politics is National: The Rise of Negative Partisanship and the Nationalization of U.S. House and Senate Elections in the 21st Century”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)
- An article from the Washington Post comparing AOC and DJT’s social media strategy
- The most recent resolution outlining the Green New Deal, and a report from NPR on the Deal and its origin
Institutional Trust
- An article in The Atlantic on declining levels of trust in institutions across the globe
Britain
- A brief explanation of Britain’s constitutional monarchy
- An update from the NYT on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit Plan
- Britain’s Attorney General Geoffrey Cox’s tweet, “Bollocks,” in response to a critique
- A procedural explanation of the Prime Minister’s Questions, which you can watch here. Plus, an article in the Guardian recounting its history (including Harold Macmillan’s queasiness)
- An op-ed from the NYT imagining a Prime Minister’s Questions session in the U.S.
Hungary
- An article in the NYT about Hungary’s eroding democracy
India
- An article from Bloomberg on India’s upcoming election, the largest exercise of democracy on the planet
China
- An article in Foreign Affairs on communist China’s capitalist development
Socialism
- An article from The Atlantic on Trump’s application of the term “socialist”
- An article from the NYT on Teddy Roosevelt’s crusade for the inheritance tax
- An article in the NYT about Sweden’s response to the banking crisis
Media
- An article from Bloomberg on the decline of local news, and the subsequent consequences
Vocabulary
- Bollocks = nonsense
- Sui generis = constituting a class alone; unique
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