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Katherine Mangu-Ward is back on the Remnant, and although Jonah had planned on hosting her ...

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is back on the Remnant, and although Jonah had planned on hosting her for an episode of rank punditry, their conversation takes a more philosophical turn instead. After digging into the weeds of libertarian philosophy, the nature of the social good, and the relationship between libertarianism and feminism, they explore a potpourri of topics ranging from drug liberalization to the transgender debate. Be prepared for unfettered nerdery.

Show Notes:

– Katherine’s page at Reason

– The Remnant with Sarah Isgur

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    John Robert

    I really regret missing this pod when it was released . Both Jonah and his guest were very thoughtful, but they treated transgender issues as if the matter existed in a vacuum, overlooking the situations where other people than the patient are necessarily involved. I'll just indicated the subjects of real controversy and omit discussing them. 1.) Schools socially transitioning a child and trying to keep it secret from parents. 2.) Natal boys on girls'teams. 3.) Completely intact males in women's prisons and other women's spaces on nothing but their word that they are trans. 4.) Providing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, claiming they are completely reversible. (There are no long-term studies, and what data is available indicates they can have serious permanent side effects.) 5.) Child custody disputes over whether a child should be transitioned. 6.) The number of partially or completely transitioned people who come regret it. 7.) The youngsters who are thought to be trans for various reasons but mature into perfectly normal gay or even heterosexual teens. It seems obvious to me to as an outsider that the radical trans ideology has become a dangerous fad among health care professionals. It took years of hard work to secure deletion of homosexuality from the DSM, but resolutions based on trans ideology have breezed to adoption by various professional societies. It's frightening to think how long it may take for any necessary correction to be established and how many patients are irreparably injured in the meantime.

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    Jim Canestrari

    one day, somewhere, someone is going to invite an authority who works in a school (aka Teacher) to discuss what's actually happening there. Until then, it's asininities - all the way down.

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    Marian Cates

    Very much enjoyed this episode.

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    Ben Connelly

    This was awesome! Listened to a TED talk by KMW this morning and now she’s on the Remnant! She’s totally right (okay, it was John Tierney but she agreed) about having separate competitions for PED-using athletes and regular (“natural”) athletes. Everybody gets to compete in the Olympics that aligns with their doping/anti-doping preference and viewers get to watch two competitions.

    Also I’m totally on the same wavelength her about sports. Could care less. Don’t watch any. Although I appreciate the fact that they exist and people seem to enjoy them.

    I find myself caught somewhere ideologically in between her and Jonah and she makes me seem less of a crazy libertarian and more of a Remnant conservative. Although there’s a part of me that’s ready for anarchy.

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  5. FrancoiseValle

    The claim that without gender ideology we would have strict and un negotiable ideas of gender is just wrong. Western culture produced and celebrated Prince and David Bowie.

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    Sara Bush

    I think that Katherine might do a 180 if she falls victim to the censorious progressive leftist institutions. She gives no credence to legitimate and highly visible results of Leftist group-think. Lives are ruined over the most inane and innocuous things, and it matters.

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    CP

    I was promised _unfettered_ nerdery. Unfettered!

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  8. John P

    I just wanted to note that 'chicken util' sounds like a good soup.

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    Matthew Maughan

    I liked the discussion - I feel like on the trans issue, Jonah didn't quite push back on whether parents encouraging gender reassignment surgery/hormone blockers would constitute child abuse - and what the similarities and differences there would be between that and straightforwardly beating a child. I would love to hear the pure unadulterated libertarian take on that. They danced around it but KMW did not quite answer the question.

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    Seth Higgins

    I'm still listening so maybe this gets corrected but hard disagree on Katherine's assertion that "like a 1,000 transgender kids are driving our discourse."

    First, my guessing that's off by a factor of 100.

    Second, these kids are a symptom of the discourse, not the cause. The cause is a successor ideology that is sweeping many institutions that believes there is nothing more noble than being a victim, all human suffering can be ameliorated with material intervention, and the world can be made anew and in the likeness of its most ardent believers.

    To coast over this is to ignore a massive political development. Maybe Katherine's solution is to just let everyone talk it out. Not a great solution if you don't want to be eating bug burgers while listening to only public radio in 90 degree heat because air conditioning is outlawed.

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