{"podcast":{"title":"Executive Functions Chat","slug":"executive-functions-chat-7348500","podcast_index_feed_id":7348500,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/3516088/s/201277.rss","website_url":"https://www.execfunctions.org/s/chat","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/3516088/s/201277/6ae23f8ca86da38ee33247924f795746.jpg","author":"Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith","episode_count":53,"summary":"Bob and Jack discuss news about the presidency.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/executive-functions-chat-7348500"},"episode":{"title":"What Are We Living Through?","slug":"what-are-we-living-through","published_at":"2025-11-11T13:12:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/executive-functions-chat-7348500/what-are-we-living-through","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/executive-functions-chat-7348500","url":"https://www.execfunctions.org/p/what-are-we-living-through","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178570051/41fe6738d73054b7007db9d76d9675e8.mp3","summary":"Jack talks with Columbia Law professor David Pozen about Pozen's recent Boston Review essay with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, “What Are We Living Through?” They discuss three competing ways of understanding the Trump administration—authoritarian rupture, continuity with long-running dysfunction, and a transition to a new constitutional regime. The conversation explores whether all three can be true, what kind of damage may be irreversible, and what rebuilding might look like after Trump. Mentioned: “ What Are We Living Through? ” by David Pozen & Jedediah Britton-Purdy ( Boston Review , Oct. 15, 2025) “ Hardball and/as Anti-Hardball ” by David Pozen ( Lawfare , Oct. 11, 2018) Get full access to Executive Functions at www.execfunctions.org/subscribe","meta_description":"Jack talks with Columbia Law professor David Pozen about Pozen's recent Boston Review essay with Jedediah Britton-Purdy, “What Are We Living Through?” The…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1894,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/executive-functions-chat-7348500/episodes/what-are-we-living-through/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/executive-functions-chat-7348500/what-are-we-living-through.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}