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Oct 2024
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Geopolitics, Power, and Solutions — with...

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Rory Stewart, the former UK Secretary of State for International Development and cohost of the popular podcast, The Rest is Politics, joins Scott to discuss geopolitics, the state of politics in the US and the UK, and his recent TEDTalk where he advocates for a radical way to address extreme poverty worldwide.


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Scott opens with his thoughts on Governor Newsom vetoing SB 1047, an AI safety bill. He then gets into more news out of California, specifically the banning of legacy and donor admissions at private universities. 


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