This is a first episode about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our guest, Dr. Steven David is a scholar of international relations and security studies, and he discussed the conflict with us. This conversation largely explores the conflict from an Israeli (specifically a progressive Zionist) perspective. There are many issues we did not discuss, but we will likely explore in future episodes.

Note: The episode was recorded on 1/16/2024, and reflects the information that was available at the time.

Sources:

• New York Times coverage of Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza
• David, S. R. (2012). Existential threats to Israel: learning from the ancient past. Israel Affairs, 18(4), 503-525.
• David, S. R. (2018). Existential threats to Israel. In Contemporary Israel (pp. 299-316). Routledge.
• David, S. R. (2019). Coping with an existential threat: Israel and Iran under Netanyahu. In Israel Under Netanyahu (pp. 197-215). Routledge.
• Israel’s Construction of Iran as an Existential Threat: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26378543
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  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2013.787829
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  https://www.jstor.org/stable/23039625
  

In this episode, Manny and Dylan chat with Dr. Daniel Yudkin, a social psychologist and researcher at the organization More In Common. We talk about how and why people fundamentally misunderstand Americans’ political viewpoints, and what we can do about this problem.

(So sorry about Manny's audio quality! There was a mic issue and we had to use his webcam mic for the episode.)

Daniel’s Substack - The Partial Spectator

The “Hidden Tribes” of America

The Perception Gap quiz

More In Common Group 2018 US midterms report

Pew Research Typologies

Polling that shows high support for progressive policies.

“Democratic candidates, on average,are helped by higher turnout.” Hansford and Gomez, 2010

Also, racial minorities (who are more likely to vote democrat) are much less likely to vote, relative to white voters. See Pew

Income and Education predict different things when it comes to voting in 2016 and 2020

In this episode Dylan interviews Manny about his first first-author paper! The paper investigates how people’s socioeconomic status relates to health (it’s a bit more complicated!).

1. Manny’s paper (not pay walled!): ⁠https://academic.oup.com/abm/article/57/11/929/7281567⁠
2. Kraus episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/29DVydMRzGb
3. Muscatell episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/p6g2VKPRzGb
4. Why does everyone think they are middle class (not pay-walled!)? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550620934597
5. Robert Sapolsky writes about health and social hierarchy in primates: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1106477?casa_token=IpGOTg0oFBwAAAAA%3AX3ig2zog-8VbsVcjnw6Cx_xzupulg4Xf4p-Te35XBdwvnY9Mk6EQZhVj8rCV1Bycb6t2535Bpfc9Fw
6. Marmot writes about health inequality and decision latitude: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1674771/
7. Peter Ennes write about how the rich generally determine the political decisions in the US: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bM8fEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT5&dq=info:nOJ4vybD5BoJ:scholar.google.com&ots=_snYeRC9S4&sig=XZCZYUofAmyMZArXoYdtNXlHAU4#v=onepage&q&f=false
8. GINI coefficient (a measure of inequality) among countries that are similar to the US: https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
9. Wage inequality is lower in worker cooperatives compared to traditional firms: https://ejce.liuc.it/18242979201702/182429792017140207.pdf
10. Direct democracy initiatives support well being: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-015-1085-4
11. Age and voting behavior: https://medium.com/@PollsAndVotes/age-and-voter-turnout-52962b0884ef