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Interview Analysis and Improvement
What are your thoughts on how the John Lovell interview went? I left with much more information on how he thought but I still feel I know little to nothing additional about his book or the topic. Would love to hear your process for how you grade performance in interviews and identity points for improving.
Have Americans learned to Never Again Volunteer Yourself?
David Lipsky "I still think that national service is one of the most honorable, thrilling, and satisfying things that someone can do... One thing that was hard for me was watching how the military was hurt by the deployment schedule. One of the promises that was made to the classes that I was an observer of was that the army and civilian controllers of the military... would not subject them to punishing op tempos, But the deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq burned out a whole generation of enlisted personnel." Thom Shanker “The military is drawn from the American public but it’s not a broad section of the American public. I am sure you know, the recruiting figures are highest in rural new England, the south, [and] rural west. That is hardly a picture of America, and these troops come in carrying the biases and experiences of where they are raised. I can assure you military leadership is deeply concerned about the polarization in American politics infecting the ranks. Whether its hard right extremism, racism, misogyny and that is a real concern…” Do you think the history of punishing op tempos and being singled out as a potential extremist due to being from rural America has anything to do with service member's declining recommendations of service to their children or the military's inability to recruit from the roughly 25% of eligible Americans?
Isn't it political to go after Hunter?
With the indictments against Trump mounting and the only defense being its political, I do not understand how the Hunter case isn't political either. Its hard for me to view this as congress cares about corruption when a non disputed 2 Billion went to Jared who actually worked in the white house. After 4 years under Trump being told not to about blatant corruption and influence peddling I do not understand what the standard is and why I should care if its not being applied evenly.
Recommendation for Coleman Hughs and Jamelle Bouie on Affirmative Action
With the recent discussion between you and Saagar about affirmative action I think Coleman and Jamelle would be great potential guests to have on the subject. There was a recent episode of Coleman's podcast "Conversations with Coleman" between these two that I think was great but focused on the idea of color blindness. I would love to see an episode with each of these two making the case for and against affirmative action.