WHO Radio Show Notes - 2017
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2017
January 7, 2017
(BGS: President Obama and the soggy egg roll; if Trump is tweeting, assume he could be trading, too; even digital publishers struggle to profit)
January 14, 2017
(BGS: The President-elect shouldn't be fighting with Rep. John Lewis; "tariffs" seem like something other people pay, but you're on the hook for "import taxes"; China's aircraft carrier)
January 28, 2017
(BGS: What's wrong with the immigration executive order; capitalist reading recommendations; backing out of trade deals makes us look weak)
February 4, 2017
(BGS: Are we planting elm trees or oak trees?; the President gets only one type of discretion; courts are a process, not an outcome)
February 11, 2017
(BGS: The Constitution must come first in the President's mind; we must let the nerds save us; systems beat individual leaders)
February 18, 2017
(BGS: What's local matters, because it sets us up to handle larger things like adults)
February 25, 2017
(BGS: Warren Buffett vs. Donald Trump; high-value manufacturing vs. low-end factories)
March 4, 2017
(BGS: How about we get to work building some agreement about emerging issues that haven't gotten the attention they deserve?)
March 11, 2017
(BGS: Bugs Bunny is the iconic American cartoon character; compulsory education for everyone; reforming health insurance from a blank sheet)
March 18, 2017
(BGS: Values aren't hereditary; it's perfectly fine for us to be different nations from one another, but we need to be cooperatively different; Russian FSB officers charged with hacking Yahoo)
March 25, 2017
(BGS: The rhetorical antidote to reckless populism is a tone of confident aspiration; animals have instincts, but smart people have intuition -- the culmination of habit, study, experience, and reflection; co-locating libraries with public housing)
April 1, 2017
(BGS: Noah Smith on preventing "American economic sclerosis"; regulating workplaces to death; it's still about Russia)
April 8, 2017
(BGS)
April 15, 2017
(BGS: Government should be constrained to those things it has a unique capacity to do; Emilee Richardson on "ocean worlds" beyond Earth; what's with the President threatening war on Twitter?)
April 22, 2017
(BGS: The "do-nothing Millennial" problem)
April 29, 2017
(BGS: Lower tax rates might easily feel good, but their real impact really just won't be enough to pay for itself; Simon Lester on saving NAFTA from disaster; Chinese aircraft carriers and Swedish meatballs)
May 6, 2017
(BGS: Nobody celebrates Small Business Week with ostentatious parties; Bloomberg and Twitter enter a joint venture; upskilling and the social-safety net)
May 13, 2017
(BGS: Pledge allegiance to the Constitution, never a President; Grant Campany on the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize; rethinking college in Iowa and beyond; I'm not a Mormon, but I want them in the Boy Scouts)
May 20, 2017
(BGS: A media guide for the skeptical conservative; Iowans don't wait for others to do the job; Tim Miller on winning on principle; Iowa needs more big cities)
May 27, 2017
(BGS: There's no excuse for a politician's physical assault on a journalist; a $15 minimum wage isn't a solution; what happened at the Manchester concert should never be normal)
June 3, 2017
(BGS: Practicing honor in little ways so we're ready when it's needed in big ones; Amazon at $1,000 a share; the good and bad of a guaranteed basic income)
June 10, 2017
(BGS: Don't let Iowa decide for Alabama or vice-versa; enemies within and enemies without; Iowa's highways aren't just for trucks)
June 17, 2017
(BGS: Look out for the imposter conservatives; the future of retail is automated, and that could be trouble for small-town Iowa; Rep. David Young on trade)
June 24, 2017
(BGS)
July 1, 2017
(BGS: Federalism and the rule of law trip up bad ideas like Federal overreach into state voter rolls because they're supposed to; Illinois in trouble -- how a neighbor's fiscal house fire threatens Iowa; in search of a big, constructive national goal)
July 8, 2017
(BGS: The "West" worth defending is rooted in openness; Sen. Ben Sasse speaks in Nevada; convincing fake videos are just around the corner)
July 15, 2017
(BGS: Until the dignity of the individual is respected everywhere, sometimes we're going to have to step in; rural broadband is a modern-day transcontinental railroad; what Helsinki and Des Moines have in common)
July 22, 2017
(BGS: Younger voters are losing faith in the First Amendment; bosses without boundaries; would your kids mock a drowning man?)
July 29, 2017
(BGS: Reince Priebus got fired because of James Madison; technology is neutral, but bad users aren't; Mitt Romney can go waterskiing anytime he wants)
August 5, 2017
(BGS: Be a proud "guardrailer"; Mark Zuckerberg isn't running for President; red hat, white hat, blue hat, black hat)
August 12, 2017
(BGS: Model railroads at the Iowa State Fair and the nostalgia for proprietor capitalism; "Dunkirk" reviewed; debt-to-GDP will soon be 100%)
August 19, 2017
(BGS: Respect isn't a finite resource; to really appreciate history is to struggle with questions of context, meaning, and choice)
September 23, 2017
(BGS: Taking a knee at the National Anthem is form, but defending the Constitution is substance)
October 7, 2017
(BGS: Don't surrender to despair after Las Vegas)
October 14, 2017
(BGS: Girls in the Boy Scouts, struggle is the price of things worth having )
October 21, 2017
(BGS: Snapchat's truly gross contribution to the hostile environment for women)
October 28, 2017
(BGS: If your idea of a good outcome is that people should be punished according to your personal animus, then you don't really believe in the rule of law; Amazon's "smart locks"; Arthur Rizer on the annual crime report)
November 4, 2017
(BGS: RTFM for your political system; only if you think that you have no reputation to protect do you deflect to the shortcomings of others when caught for wrondoing; a Tweetless President for 11 minutes)
December 2, 2017
(BGS: Bad behavior should be purged, not excused; Sears, Amazon, Meredith, and Time; tax reform is good, but not enough)
December 16, 2017
(BGS: Any civilization worthy of the name must be eager to find out why and how the system failed to protect Natalie Finn and her siblings; don't fall for the Bitcoin bubble; California's giant fires)
December 23, 2017
(BGS: Roads, bridges, and people; tariffs, taxes, and takeoffs)
December 30, 2017
(BGS: What's happening in Iran and what we should be prepared to do; slobbering devotion to any President is a bad idea; Library of Congress will stop archiving all public tweets; Gordon Fischer on year-end giving)