Joe Biden has decided Kamala Harris is to be his pick as vice president based on the fact she is an African-American woman. Should identity politics have a place in the presidential campaign, or should people of power be chosen rather on merit? (3:27-25:20). Dan Tehan has announced a review into Robert French’s freedom of speech on campus model. Should we be concerned about the issue of free speech rights on Australian campuses and should we be pushing further for a more in-depth review of this issue? (25:38-47:19). JK Rowling has been long under pressure to give in to the woke left whose failure to deal with the lessons of the Harry Potter Books and has subsequently faced the wrath of cancel culture. Does Harry Potter belong in the ‘woke left basket’ and are identity politics being taken too far by the cancel culture mob? (47:20-1:00:35). This week’s culture picks include Netflix’ series The Umbrella Academy, 2008 Australian movie Lake Mungo and 2019 film The Lighthouse (1:00:40-1:14:07)
Show Notes:
How Kamala Harris or Tammy Duckworth as VP could impact the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote: Deepa Shivaram
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/two-women-biden-s-vp-list-have-little-known-advantage-n1236073
Biden picks Kamala Harris as VP nominee: Christopher Cadelago and Caitlin Oprysko
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/11/joe-biden-vp-pick-kamala-harris-393768
Kamala Harris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To Snoop Dogg and Tupac: Nick Gillespie
https://reason.com/2019/02/12/kamala-harris-got-so-high-smoking-weed-i/
The Real Reason Cancel Culture is Rejecting “Harry Potter”: Renee Gorman
https://areomagazine.com/2020/08/07/the-real-reason-cancel-culture-is-rejecting-harry-potter/
Culture Picks:
The Lighthouse (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/
the 2008 Australian film Lake Mungo.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0816556/
the Umbrella Academy on Netflix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrella_Academy_(TV_series)
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The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 72 "Parliament Must Do Its Job"
The Looking Forward Podcast Episode 71 "Conspiracy Theories Dismissed (Again)"
Looking Forward Episode 70 "Double Déjà vu in Dan's Victoria"
Looking Forward Episode 69 “Would You Like Fries With That?”
Ep 68: Falling Statues & Falling Elites
Ep 67: Policing Under Pressure
Ep 66: Where to Now?
Ep 65: Liberalising Australia: Then and Now.
Ep 64: Can WHO Be Cured?
Ep 63: A Return To Freedom?
Ep 62: Let's Get Back to Work
Ep 61: Download Or Else
Ep 60: Restoring Dynamism After Deep Freeze
Ep 59: Only the First to Bail Out?
Ep 58: Government Models Can't Guide Us Back
Ep 57: Of Moral Panics and Spendathons
Ep 56: Our Values will Sustain Us
Ep 55: The Patient Needs to Survive the Cure
Ep 54: The Cracks in Our Ivory Towers
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