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Back to SearchThe Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)
Episode 324
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Jeet Heer has written two major essays about the intellectual legacy of the New Republic magazine’s 70s-2000s heyday. The first, from 2015, excav…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System
Episode 323
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Jonathan Kozol is one of the leading critics of the U.S. education system, having written a series of widely acclaimed books across a 60-year car…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)
Episode 322
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Anne Kim's book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor gives a partial answer to an enduring question: how come we spend…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)
Episode 321
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Thomas Sowell may be the best-selling economics writer of our time. For decades, the Hoover Institution pundit has published books and columns int…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)
Episode 320
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Steven Thrasher is a professor of journalism at Northwestern University and the author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh)
Episode 319
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Today we talk to David Austin Walsh, a postdoc at Yale and the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, a new …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari)
Episode 318
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Bestselling author Johann Hari, whose Lost Connectionsand Stolen Focus have previously been discussed on this program, returns today to discuss h…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf)
Episode 317
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Who actually comprises the MAGA movement? Where do Trumpian politicians come from? How do they defeat "establishment" Republicans on the local an…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin)
Episode 316
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When we think of American power, we often think of missiles, guns, and tanks. But operating in the background is an incredibly powerful weapon wh…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
Episode 315
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Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post. Her new essay collection, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Exc…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago