GOP Debate Stuff We Didn’t Hate


On this week’s The Purpose Roundtable, editors Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward welcome particular visitors Eric Boehm and Zach Weissmueller for a autopsy examination of the primary Republican presidential major debate final week and to debate reactions to former President Donald Trump’s mug shot.

0:42: First Republican presidential major debate

23:08: Donald Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson

32:17: Weekly Listener Query

55:34: Persistent back-to-school COVID measures

Talked about on this podcast:

“There Had been No Anti-Interventionist Candidates on the GOP Debate,” by Christian Britschgi

“Nikki Haley Burned Trump and Her Fellow Republicans for Blowing Up the Debt. She’s Proper.” by Eric Boehm

“A GOP Consensus Emerges: Militarize the Border,” by Fiona Harrigan

“Nikki Haley Slams Biden’s ‘Inexperienced Subsidies,'” by Joe Lancaster

“Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘The Solely Conflict I Will Declare…Is on the Administrative State,'” by Robby Soave

“Vivek Ramaswamy’s Well-liked Incoherence,” by Matt Welch

“Candidates Spar Over Nationwide Abortion Ban in First Republican Debate,” by Elizabeth Nolan Brown

“Tucker Carlson’s Sycophantic Interview With Trump Illustrates the Benefits of Skipping the Debates,” by Jacob Sullum

“Cease Publishing Mug Pictures—Even Donald Trump’s,” by Billy Binion

“Baltimore Orioles Homeowners Demand Even Extra Pointless Taxpayer Cash,” by Jason Russell

“The Oakland Athletics Simply Confirmed Why They Do not Want Taxpayers To Purchase Their New Stadium,” by Eric Boehm

“Voters Put Arizona Coyotes’ Enviornment Venture on Ice,” by Eric Boehm

“Stadium Subsidy Stupidity Hits New Document,” by Jason Russell

“The Costly, Seductive Nostalgia of Subject of Desires,” by Matt Welch

“Dozens of Schools Nonetheless Require COVID Vaccines for College students,” by Emma Camp

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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser; assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty.

Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve