Episode 21 | America’s Disordered Cities

In this special episode of Rationally BASED, our host, law professor Ilan Wurman, is joined by guest co-hosts Sanjana Friedman and Judge Glock. Both write about homelessness, public encampments, and other disorders in America’s progressive cities. Our hosts talk about the state of the homelessness-industrial complex in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Do NGOs have an incentive to perpetuate homelessness? Was Spencer Pratt right to describe homeless people as simply “drug addicts”? (Answer: mostly yes.) Our hosts talk about how progressives manipulate language to dull the mind and advance their radical agenda, for example by describing homeless persons as “unhoused.” Our hosts then dive into legal issues surrounding “public nuisance”: Can taxpayers and homeowners use public nuisance to fight back against public encampments and other insane progressive policies? And why are progressives so against public nuisance laws in these obvious contexts, when they use public nuisance laws for absurd purposes like suing energy companies for climate change or gun manufacturers for gun violence? Is this another example of progressives abusing the legal system? Tune in to find out.