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Longtime Listener, First Time Caller? Send Us Your Questions for Our Next Mailbag Episode
🕑 Added 2025-07-29 00:35:46 +0000 UTCIt's been nearly a year since we asked you, our subscribers, to send us questions for a mailbag episode—which you did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence, for our 100th episode back in September 2024. As we enter the dog days of summer, once again we're putting out the call for your questions.
We're going to record this mailbag episode Thursday afternoon, so please consider asking us a question in the replies to this post, or via direct message or email if you'd rather not do so publicly, between now and then. As always, you can ask about anything—politics, religion, books, "life"—so ask away, and thank you in advance!
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Joan Caiazzo
Not a question, but an idea I would like you to explore, find an answer to if there is one. How did the generation that protested the Vietnam Nam war, and stood up for the civil rights movement, women’s movement, etc. turn into the generation that refuses to give up political power and financial power. Where did the progressive politics and generation of the 1960s/70s go?
Jason Gonzales
Why are conservatives so horny for cars and so against mass transit? I feel there is a masculinity issue here. To me once you understand the role of certain kinds of masculinity AKA wounded masculinity etc involved in conservative thinking it becomes obvious why they love cars especially certain kinds of large cars that give the illusion of security and safety and separation from others. I suspect that conservatives love their cars because it allows them to confirm a lot of their biases and not confront the realities of society around them. What do y'all think?
Dirk
Related to the question someone asked earlier in this post about Yglesias, what do you guys make of the emerging “abundance agenda” faction of liberals? They can come across as pragmatic and uncontroversial at times (“We just want to build more housing!”) but there seems to be something more going on, with lots of funding from Silicon Valley, ties to libertarian-ish think tanks, blaming almost everything on the left and “The Groups” etc. What’s happening here? Warmed-over neoliberalism? An effort by Third Way types to reassert control over Democratic politics, not just make a few policy tweaks here and there?
