The IPA's Looking Forward Podcast - A weekly podcast of debate and discussion about politics and ideas hosted by Scott Hargreaves, Editor of the IPA Review and Chris Berg of RMIT University and Fellow of the IPA
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 less than one month before the US election. What will this mean for the politics surrounding the upcoming election and could this revelation play for or against Trump’s faltering campaign? (1:59-21:45)
Trump has also received a kind of ‘cocktail’ of medication in response to contracting the virus, not all of which is available to the common American citizen. In the spirit of Right to Try, should this accelerate clinician’s access to beneficial drugs rather than just waiting for a vaccine? And are lockups and the wait for a vaccine just making people’s health worse? (21:45-35:59)
We discuss last night’s budget and our sudden emergence as a big-State social democratic country with a small state low(er) tax revenue base. Will this Keynesian but pro-business budget lift us out of recession, or is it time to look at productivity? (36:00-50:31)
Culture picks this week include Musical label, Cryo Chamber; Aeschylus’ play, The Eumenides; and a two-part TV series by Billy Ray, The Comey Rule. (51:29-1:04:21)
Show notes:
“Effect of calcifediol (Vitamin D treatment; M Castillo, et al
Is it wrong if I ask for the same?; Tyler Cowen
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/is-it-wrong-if-i-ask-for-the-same.html
Donald Trump takes zinc. Maybe you should too; Allysia Finley
Why Human Challenge Trials Will Be Necessary to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine; Alex Tabarrok
All the president's medicine: How doctors are treating Donald Trump; Sascha Pezenik, Sony Salzman and Dr. Divya Chhabra
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/presidents-medicine-doctors-treating-donald-trump/story?id=73423761
Debt To Hit $2.05 Trillion, 60 Years To Pay Off; IPA
https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/debt-to-hit-2-05-trillion-60-years-to-pay-off
Culture Picks:
Musical label, Cryo Chamber
https://www.cryochamberlabel.com/
Play, The Eumenides, written by Aeschylus
https://www.ancient.eu/The_Eumenides/
‘Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias’; Emily Wilson, LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n19/emily-wilson/ah-how-miserable
TV series by Billy Ray, The Comey Rule