How should Leo Laporte and Jason Calacanis resolve their "This Week In" conflict?

Frankly it is unwise to give other people advice on how to resolve their conflicts, unless they asked you to. The best you can really do is answer: "If it was me in that situation, what would be the best course of action for me? " Realizing all the time that there is actually no universal answer, and what you personally would do is neither what everyone should do, nor something that would necessarily work out for them.

Also to be honest, I know little about this situation. I don't follow either podcast more than very occasionally, and don't really know that much about the people involved or exactly how this arose. However if all is as you describe, your own proposal sounds like a wise one, and I myself would probably try to do something similar if I found myself in that scenario.

Of course the key is that "all is as you describe". In a conflict, it is usually the case that the two parties actually would not see the situation in the same terms at all, and would initially not even agree that matters are as you, a third party, described. That's why it's so hard to mediate, even when people have asked you to.

Personally if I found myself in a situation in which a misunderstanding led to a falling out with a friend, my inclination would be to do the following: - Apologize for the misunderstanding. And any harm done to the friend - Hear their pain. Make sure they get that I got it.

- Tell them I value their friendship - Offer to make full restitution for any harm they feel has been done to them - They get to say what constitutes full restitution - Whether asked or not, make such restitution as I can - Be willing for my part to resume our friendship, recognising that they may not feel ready for that now or ever Like I said, I don't say that is what everyone should do, or that it would work for everyone. But for me, that is the way I'd go. Admittedly, most likely only after a period of cooling down and reflection.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.