Submit a question for this week's livestreams
Week of July 24, 2023
I'm offering the option for paid subscribers to ask a question during the two livestreams we have scheduled this week (although the format has changed).
If you’re interested, please leave your question in the comments by July 26th at noon PT. Comments are open to paid subscribers.
Wednesday's Livestream is with Mark Goldblatt at 1:30PM PT.
Mark is a novelist, essayist, and theologian who teaches at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. His two most recent books are Might As Well Be Dead (a middle-grade novel about a traumatized boy's encounter with the ghost of John Lennon) and I Feel, Therefore I Am: the Triumph of Woke Subjectivism.
Thursday's livestream is with Benedict Beckeld at 1:00PM PT.
Originally from Sweden, Benedict is a writer and philosopher based in New York City, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Classical Philology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has taught in Germany, France, and elsewhere. He has written for Quillette, City Journal, The American Conservative, The Federalist, and other outlets. His latest book, Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, was recently published by Cornell University Press.
Both of these will be livestreamed via my Youtube channel. Please submit a question and join us for the conversation! Questions will be asked at the end of the interview.
See you there!
Peter
Peter - I may have submitted this question already. It's a follow-up to a question I submitted in June, asking what citizens could have done to stop Fascism in 1930s Italy and Germany. You deferred but said you knew someone who is qualified and could answer that question. Please refer me to that source. Thank you, Chuck Edson, Klamath Falls, OR
Peter,
How do we bring back the political dialogue in this country back to a middle ground, where people actually listen to each other.?
How do we influence the academy to see its' main job to be presentation of empirical evidence, to differentiate empirical evidence from unverifiable (I am not suggesting that anything unverifiable is invalid).
If a donor had $10M or $100M, and wanted to donate that amount most effectively to reducing the polarity of today's culture war, where should those resources be directed?
Is it realistic to think that people will change their red-blue team loyalty after age 30? After age 25?
Most of the electorate is already in a red or blue pocket. Realistically, what are the issues most likely tip the 5% that decide elections, the ones not fully in-pocket? I am not talking about what is "true" or "untrue". Rather, what are the few buttons that we can press to influence that 5%?
Do you have any friends who are NYTimes reporters/staff? Would it be possible for you to cultivate such a friendship?