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Russian-American Confessions: Jamison Firestone on Putin’s Russia and a Criminal American Dad
Episode 2957
“My brothers always think: what would Jesus do? And they do that. I think: what would dad do? And I do the opposite.” — Jamison Firestone
What do you…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Apotheosis of Donald Trump? Peter Wehner on Madness, Mayhem and How Trump Eludes Shakespearean Tragedy
Episode 2956
“His descent is in a sense our descent.” — Peter Wehner on Trump at 80
Donald Trump turned 80 two weeks ago. But Peter Wehner’s timely Atlantic piece…
3 months, 1 week ago
Payback’s a Bitch: AI Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Fake Andrew Keen, and America’s Inevitable Decline
Episode 2955
“The frontier AI companies invited the government into the room. Now the government is beginning to behave as if it owns the door, the guest list, th…
3 months, 1 week ago
Down the Democratic Drain: Justin Gest on How Migration Is Unintentionally Strengthening Authoritarianism Around the World
Episode 2954
“You cannot expect a society to open its doors if there is no way to close them. You cannot expect a society to open its gates if there is no gate to…
3 months, 1 week ago
Is London Really Falling? Patrick Radden Keefe's Search for Truth in the Most Invisible of Cities
Episode 2953
“Narrative remains a pretty unbeatable delivery device for information.” — Patrick Radden Keefe
Has London really fallen? That’s the question Patrick…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Best and Worst Thing About America: Konstanty Gebert on the Interlibrary Loan and Yalta
Episode 2952
“The United States and America are not the same thing. The United States is a government, an administration. America is an idea — and that idea is st…
3 months, 1 week ago
We No Longer Dream of the United States: Bartosz Wieliński on America, Poland, and the Suicide of a Superpower
Episode 2951
“People in my generation worshipped the United States during communism. Everybody wanted to flee to the US. It was the land of the dream. And now we …
3 months, 1 week ago
Let’s Agree to Disagree: Maciej Kisilowski on How to Save Democracy From Deplorables on All Sides
Episode 2950
“If your opening position is: your views are beyond the pale, you are deplorable, there is no space for you in democracy — then how on earth do we ex…
3 months, 1 week ago
Jackson
Episode 2949
“The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.” — Robert F. Kennedy, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968
I…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Middlewomen: Laura McGrath on the 25 People Who Control American Fiction
Episode 2948
“Just 25 literary agents represent more than half of all prizewinning novelists in the 21st century. The agent is the unacknowledged legislator of th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago