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Back to SearchThe Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)
Episode 327
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Radley Balko is one of America's leading journalists on policing and criminal punishment. His bo…
1 year, 7 months ago
What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)
Episode 326
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John Ghazvinian is the leading historian of U.S.-Iranian relations, the author of the indispensa…
1 year, 8 months ago
Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)
Episode 325
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With antiwar protests jeopardizing a Democratic president's reelection and an upcoming party co…
1 year, 8 months ago
The 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 magazi…
1 year, 8 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 ser…
1 year, 8 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…
1 year, 8 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 Inst…
1 year, 8 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 Vi…
1 year, 8 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: T…
1 year, 8 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 dis…
1 year, 8 months ago