economist. he s an author, a. caller: um nis for the ft, and his new podcast is called simply enough, cautionary tales. welcome. thank you. i m fascinated by the oil tanker one. what you describe is why don t you describe what happens? it was 1967. the oil tanker was one of the largest ships in the world. a great ship. and its captain took her between the silly aisles and the coast of corn wall off the south tip of great britain. it s narrow for an oil tanker and as the captain took the ship along the course, little by little small pieces of information came to light that should have made him think hang on, we need to go a safer route. there was a navigation error. they realized the tanker wasn t quite where they thought, but rather than stop and go around, he kept thinking i can make it.
reconsider the landmark decision roe v wade. more than 50 groups including planned parenthood and women are organizing marches as a part of national day of action to stop the bans. one took place at the supreme court. josh letterman was at the supreme court protest and joins me now. josh. this is shaming up to be a major issue for the democratic candidates. there are some democrats that are concerned that might not be such a good idea. they may be falling into a trap that republicans are setting wa caller:tu culture wars, ty are not talking about trump s record. i asked why this is something democrats should be talk about. let s listen. it s one more example of the extremism of the modern republican party. it s our job to show how all of
prison and what happens is that you cut off the head and you get 100 heads. everybody is their own head of the gang and have their own set. we have a real problem of a. caller: sure of violence in many of our communities and we have to deal with that head-on and we have to admit that that s been created by a broader contech. a context of failed criminal justice policies and context of a gun-drenched nation and a context of poverty. the reality is that in places like this, there s never a job for you but the gang always has a job for you. always. and so that s why, you know, when mayor bloomberg last year think where we were this time last year. we were saying stopping first has to go down and murders will go up. it went down, right? right. but jobs went up and that s why murder went down. is that, from a social science perspective, one of the things that i think is fascinating when