Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.

April 17, 2025, the Trump versus Harvard edition.

I'm David Plotz, a citycast here in Washington, D.C., from New Haven, Connecticut, where she just had a traumatic adventure with her pup, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School.

But all as well, right, Emily?

All as well. Thank you to the people and a friend of mine who found my dog this morning when

she got confused and lost in our large, woody part.

If only we all could have people to help us could get back home when we were confused and lost.

I'd like to think of you guys in that category.

So true.

Yes. That was John Dickerson co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and CBS Evening News Plus in New York City. John would have

used the platform of CBS Evening News Plus to help find Emily's dog, if necessary. He wouldn't

have used the platform of CBS

evening news, though. That would have been too much. Well, you know, I need an, I have to write an

essay every day, so I'm constantly looking for, for subjects, and that could have crossed the

ball. Oh my God. Wait, we'll get to this at some point, but just how desperate have you gotten?

Where's it, where's the farthest of field you've gone so far?

Mostly, I think it's fair to say I have not gotten that desperate, but I did do one on the inductees into the video game Hall of Fame.

But that sounds good.

While that might sound ridiculous, it turned out, it turned into like a memory motorway because the

video games that were all from a different part of my life and then I started to think about

like the curatorial. So now I ruined the fun of video games by thinking about it this way.

But what you actually are curating when you're collecting these video games like this.

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