Episode 84: Kavanaugh/Ford From Seven Angles [The Amiel Show]

This week I look at the Kavanaugh/Ford hearings and the conversations about it from seven different perspectives. You will quickly discover how deeply immersed (OK, obsessed) I’ve been the past couple of weeks, how closely I’ve followed both the minute facts and the larger political and cultural story, and, at times, how emotionally involved I’ve become. Here, we fly the Amiel Show airplane up to 30,000 feet and observe—sometimes calmly and sometimes with great passion—the events of the past two weeks, what they mean, and how we can grow ourselves through this complex and challenging experience.

Highlights

1. Should the Senate confirm Kavanaugh or not?
2. What actually happened? Why do lies about blacking out matter? (23:00)
3. Women’s voices and how men discredit then (34:30)
4. Framing the political debate—right wing narratives, the straw man argument, and intentional polarization into tribes (53:00)
5. Flake’s fuzzy request for an FBI investigation—there was no promise (1:17:00)
6. Bro Codes—old and new (1:28:00)
7. Parenting boys and girls in this era toward healthy development (1:49:00)

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Explore Additional Resources

• “Being A Good Guy And Breaking with the Bro Code”—episode 60 with Janet Crawford
• You Tube excerpt of interview with Elizabeth Debold