In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTV

Wherein Ben explains the process of sacrificing Matt Gaetz on the altar of the US Senate, Antti Ruokonen tells us about a Finnish ballot initiative, and everyone argues about when and how to change your passwords. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben talks Bob Woodward, Anastasiia Lapatina talks Ukraine, and Alicia Wanless opines on the nature of truth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben dares to defend (gasp) Merrick Garland, which is a much bigger deal than he thought it would be, apparently. Then Antti Ruokonen drops in to give us a Finnish perspective, and Roger Parloff joins us to discuss the Trump trials, the impact of Russian election influence, and various acts of shameless judicial hypocrisy. CORRECTION: In this episode, Roger Parloff mistakenly misattributed...

Wherein Eve Gaumond decides that she is in charge and turns the show into an extended interview with Ben about the news that happened yet this week: the crazy cabinet appointments to come, what Ukraine is going to do with the new power to use long-range missiles to hit targets in Russia, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein we get a report on the populist movement in Canada from Eve Gaumond, and a report from the analogous movement in Finland from Antti Ruokonen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic shows up to interview me about Matt Gaetz, and Kate Klonick and I talk through her thoughts on what Trump's tech policy is likely to look like given his extraordinarily conflicting statements and interests related to the subject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein we inaugurate the new daily #DogShirtTV morning show. I monologue about our new secretary of defense designee. Kate Klonick talks about what tech policy in a Trump administration might look like. Genevieve DellaFera worries about health policy under RFK Jr. And Anastasiia Lapatina talks about pro-Trump sentiment in Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein we are joined by Scott Shapiro, who agonizes about whom to vote for, and Sarah Longwell, who conducts a focus group with him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein the estimable Pete Strzok dons a dog shirt and discusses the counterintelligence implications of a former president having serial conversations with Vladimir Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein we are joined by Windsor Mann, with whom I look for the bright side of a possible Trump win. Spoiler alert: We find none. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina and I shoot the shit over morning coffee and afternoon wine--and Ava makes it very hard for Nastya to talk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein former Rep. Tom Malinowski joins me to discuss his efforts to win Polish- and Ukrainian-American voters over to Kamala Harris's side, the resistance to this message among a traditional GOP constituency, and his anxieties about our politics more generally and social media, in particular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Dave Willner, who helped build the content moderation system at Meta, who talks me through how and why Facebook has squelched my open letter to former Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov, and why my appeal has fallen into a black hole--and how his scheme of using large language models to scale content moderation might do a better job. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Jordan Ellenberg, whose daytime cover is as a math professor at the University of Wisconsin, but who secretly controls the weather. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein the estimable Jon Rauch and I stare straight at the asteroid coming straight for Earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I talk to the estimable Alan Rozenshtein, whose name I willfully and consistently mispronounce, about the vice presidential debate--which he hasn't watched--the dockworkers' strike, and the California AI bill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I have my morning coffee with my friend Nastya, and her baby Ava, who are enjoying an afternoon glass of wine and bottle of milk in Kyiv. We talk about Nastya's ongoing projects for Lawfare and on Substack, President Zelensky's visit last week to the United States, and US-Ukrainian relations and misunderstandings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Renee DiResta, who explains why AI disinformation is not the end of democracy but also not a problem to ignore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Lindsay Chervinsky to discuss her new book on the John Adams presidency: "Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She is an Africa analyst and daughter of Kenya, a painter, a missionary child and former Evangelical. She is also a self-described "Bulwark superfan." Oh and she's funny. Very funny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know my colleague Anna Bower as a fabulous courts reporter and chronicler of the Trump Trials. But Anna has a secret, second life: She is also crazed Swifty. And she's here to talk about the emerging fight between the Swifties and the Trumpists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Actually, he doesn't. We don't even talk all that much about eating cats, but it makes a good episode title. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Tyler McBrien--aka Spicy Tyler--to talk about the Harris-Trump debate from the previous evening. We will also, of course, discuss spices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein we are joined by convicted insurrectionist Katsiaryna Shmatsina. The estimable Ms. Shmatsina recently had the distinction of being tried in absentia in her native Belarus of trying to overturn that country's oh-so-very-democratic election and was sentenced to ten years in prison. She wrote about the experience on Lawfare and discussed it with me on the Lawfare podcast. She joins from her o...

On the inaugural episode of #DogShirtTV, the estimable Charlie Sykes joins Benjamin Wittes, Alicia Wanless, and Genevieve DellaFera to talk about the political conventions, the new energy in the Democratic Party, his memories of the 1968 Chicago convention, and fresh water sharks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.