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Back to SearchThe Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy (w/ Zeke Faux)
Episode 282
Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News is the author of a fascinating and hilarious new book about the crypto world and the collapse of the Sam Bankman-Fried em…
2 years, 2 months ago
How The Occupation Shapes Everything (w/ Nathan Thrall)
Episode 281
Nathan Thrall, the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, is the author of two books on Israel and Palestine:…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Current Israel-Palestine Crisis Was Entirely Avoidable (w/ Jerome Slater)
Episode 280
Political scientist Jerome Slater is the author of one of the best one-volume summaries of the background of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mythologi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Why Wars Happen (w/ Michael Mann)
Episode 279
Michael Mann is a sociologist who has spent his life trying to understand how power works. His latest book, On Wars, surveys the entire history of wa…
2 years, 2 months ago
A 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago