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Back to SearchA McKinsey Whistleblower on Life Inside The Secretive Consulting Firm
Episode 278
Several years ago, Garrison Lovely wrote an insider account of McKinsey & Co. for Current Affairs. At the time he published using a pseudonym, but he…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Big Pharma Makes a Killing From Letting People Die (w/ Nick Dearden)
Episode 277
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Nick Dearden's Pharmanomics is an essential primer on how the pharmaceutical industry works, ta…
2 years, 1 month ago
What Makes For a "Strong Town"? (w/ Allison Lirish Dean)
Episode 276
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Allison Lirish Dean is a journalist and urban planner in North Carolina. She is the author of a…
2 years, 1 month ago
How White Supremacist Ideology Made Its Way Into Music Theory (w/ Philip Ewell)
Episode 275
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Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory and the author of the new book On Music Theory, and…
2 years, 1 month ago
Gary Younge's 30-Year Panorama of the African Diaspora
Episode 274
Gary Younge spent three decades as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian, where he became one of the publication's most incisive and widely-read …
2 years, 1 month ago
Why The Cop City Indictment Threatens Everyone's Freedom (w/ Christopher Bruce)
Episode 273
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Originally aired 9/19/2023
Dozens of protesters in Atlanta have recently been hit with serious c…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why We Need Utopias (w/ Kristen Ghodsee)
Episode 272
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Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylv…
2 years, 1 month ago
ZINNOPHOBIA - Why So Many Still Fear "A People's History of the United States" (w/ David Detmer)
Episode 271
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David Detmer is the author of the book Zinnophobia: The Battle Over History in Education, Polit…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Do We Have Any Poverty In America When It's Such a Solvable Problem? (w/ Matt Desmond)
Episode 270
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Matthew Desmond's bestselling book Poverty, By America poses a straightforward question: Why is…
2 years, 1 month ago
Mini-Cast: Ending Period Poverty Through the "Menstrual Equity for All" Act (w/ Grace Meng)
Episode 269
"I’m pretty sure that some of my colleagues have signed on to my bill because they wanted me to stop talking about periods on the floor of the House.…
2 years, 1 month ago