Episode 160: The Weekly Standard, Sheryl Sandberg, and "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the closing of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, changing public perceptions of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, and the controversy over the 1944 Christmas classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

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Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: 

• After twenty-three years, the conservative Weekly Standard is shuttering. Natalia recommended Ed Kilgore’s Intelligencer article about the Weekly Standard’s history of partisanship. All three hosts referenced Niki’s book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Niki referred to Jeane Kirkpatrick’s 1979 Commentary essay “Dictatorship and Double Standards.”
• Silicon Valley executive and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg has gone from superwoman to supervillain, a new Buzzfeed article
• The classic winter song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” is raising controversy this season, and it’s not the first time. Neil wrote about the controversial history of Christmas songs for The Atlantic. Niki discussed another conflict over the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:

• Natalia recommended Gustavo Turner’s LOGIC Magazine article, “My Stepdad’s Huge Data Set.”
• Neil discussed Michael S. Rosenwald’s Washington Post article, “The Police Officer Who Arrested a President.”
• Niki shared Charles Dunst and Krishnadev Kalamur’s Atlantic article, “Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees.