11 June 2025
Michelle Goldberg (michellegoldberg.net) and Matt Welch (Reason, The Declaration of Independents)
- Michelle on the global battle over reproductive rights . 00:40
- Is the vast right-wing conspiracy back? . 15:59
- Matt reveals identity of real leader of GOP . 23:43
- Is resistance to big government truly the issue? . 32:01
- The semiotics of tea-party protesters . 46:19
- Debating the rationality of opposing health care reform . 50:51
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Recorded:Sep 30
Posted:Sep 30, 2009
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- Michelle’s new book, “The Means of Reproduction”
- Kerry Howley on birthrate panic
- Helen Epstein’s book, “The Invisible Cure”
- Matt on Bill Clinton
- Mother Jones on the Ron Paul-Michele Bachmann town hall
- Matt on Iraq and Kosovo
- Reason.tv coverage of the 9/12 rally
- Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”
- Maureen Dowd on Joe Wilson
- Whole Foods’s CEO John Mackey on health care reform
- Kate Harding on Roman Polanski
Bloggingheads.tv | Sep 30, 2009 | Michelle Goldberg & Matt Welch
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