Episode 24: Jan. 6th Committee hearings
This week, we discuss the first primetime, live hearing of the January 6th select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection. It’s a brief episode, but we see some glimmers of hope for competence and professionalism in this first hearing, and discuss what comes next from the committee.
What were your thoughts?
Episode notes:
“After dramatic first night, Jan. 6 panel plans several more high-profile hearings” (WaPo)
“The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV” (NYT)
The Top 5 articles for your week:
“Permanent Pandemic” (Harper’s Magazine)
Because this essay is particularly thought-provoking. “The new regime is as much a technological regime as it is a pandemic regime. It has as much to do with apps and trackers, and governmental and corporate interests in controlling them, as it does with viruses and aerosols and nasal swabs. Fluids and microbes combined with touchscreens and lithium batteries to form a vast apparatus of control, which will almost certainly survive beyond the end date of any epidemiological rationale for the state of exception that began in early 2020.
The last great regime change happened after September 11, 2001, when terrorism and the pretext of its prevention began to reshape the contours of our public life.”
“400 Years Ago, They Would Be Witches. Today, They Can Be Your Coach.” (NYT)
Because Molly Worthen writes with great care here, while not avoiding critical questions: “Spiritual coaches provoke a raised eyebrow, in part, because secular people still believe in the ghosts of Christendom — including the idea that religion should be hard and not particularly democratic. It shouldn’t be something that a frustrated woman can just assemble for herself; it should require submission to some venerable institution with ancient traditions. I’m not sure those ghosts are entirely make-believe. Self-made liberation can turn into an existential hamster wheel: Manifest one accolade, and then you’re breathlessly onto the next. What’s the point? Perhaps true freedom “is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us,” the Protestant theologian Timothy Keller wrote in his book The Reason for God.”
“The Art of the Pump” (Washington Monthly)
Because “PredictIt, it must be said, is a strange place—an eclectic virtual clubhouse teeming with cliques and crazies, conspiracy theories and camaraderie. But amid the madness, a powerful force is at work. Here, those with a sixth sense for distinguishing news from noise get paid. Here, in a game where information is money, expertise is measured not with blue checkmarks or column inches, bu --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wear-we-are/support
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