Jason Palmer

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3,607 appearances 96 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

Jason Palmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Economist Podcasts · Out-numbered: AI’s contentious maths milestone · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

It's 25 years today since two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York and another hit the Pentagon. voice-verified

It's hard to overstate how terrorism at that scale on home soil changed America in a day. voice-verified

With a speed and a congressional consensus we could only dream of today, President George W. Bush hastily created a vast counterterrorism machinery. voice-verified

new legal authority to wage war, far-reaching powers of surveillance at home and abroad, loosening the leash on agencies like the CIA and creating a whole new one, the Department of Homeland Security. voice-verified

That was then. voice-verified

Now, the jihadist threat has mostly disappeared in much of the world. voice-verified

And as much of that legislation is being pressed into service to an imperial presidency, many think it's time to pare those powers back. voice-verified

Sam Beale is a Washington correspondent for The Economist. voice-verified

So talk me through those, the revisions that were set up after 9-11. voice-verified

I mean, voice-verified

And as regards what President Trump has been doing with those provisions more recently, what's been going on with the foreign end of things? voice-verified

what about the nominal purpose of any of these laws, the terrorist threat itself? voice-verified

How has that changed in the quarter century since 9-11? voice-verified

And what about the push that you mentioned coming from the Democrat side about overreach and what might be done to pare back the powers of some of these laws? voice-verified

So where do you see what you call embryonic movements heading in the future? voice-verified

thanks very much for voice-verified

to the MAGA faithful in America, Europe is a dangerous and declining continent ravaged by Muslim immigrants. voice-verified

In several European countries, roughly half the population believes that Islam is incompatible with Western values. voice-verified

In reality, Muslims make up only a small percentage of Europe's people, and outside of a few social issues, their attitudes line up with those of their compatriots. voice-verified

So what is it that's setting so many Europeans against Islam? voice-verified

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