{"id":465,"date":"2018-12-04T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/?p=465"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:26:48","slug":"interview-michael-tanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/12\/04\/interview-michael-tanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Michael Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Janus Forum at UVM recently held a debate featuring senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Michael Tanner, on the question, \u201cIs Growing Income Inequality a Threat to Our Democracy?\u201d Tanner argued that income inequality <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a threat to our democracy. \u00a0Prior to the debate against David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for American Pogress, Tanner was interviewed by a graduate student and volunteer coach from the Lawrence Debate Union, Sarah Anders. \u00a0Listen below!<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-465-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/files\/2018\/12\/Rolfing-Center.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/files\/2018\/12\/Rolfing-Center.m4a\">http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/files\/2018\/12\/Rolfing-Center.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Did you miss the debate? Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/11\/09\/income-inequality-and-democracy\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Janus Forum at UVM recently held a debate featuring senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Michael Tanner, on the question, \u201cIs Growing Income Inequality a Threat to Our Democracy?\u201d Tanner argued that income inequality is not a threat to our democracy. \u00a0Prior to the debate against David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/2018\/12\/04\/interview-michael-tanner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Michael Tanner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/janus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}