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Episode 2005: Why the Pete Rose story is as much about the rise and fall of America as it is about the fate of Charlie Hustle
Even if it isn’t quite Spring, the professional baseball season begins today in, of all places, Korea. And to celebrate this premature rite, I spoke …
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EPISODE 2004: Jacob Heilbrunn on conservative America's 100 year romance with foreign dictators like Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Pinochet, Orban and Putin
In his new book AMERICA LAST: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Jacob Heilbrunn argues that American conservatives have always…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2003: Martin Sixsmith on Vladimir Putin and the return of history to Russia and the West
Did history ever go away? For the former BBC Russia correspondent, Martin Sixsmith, there was a few euphoric years, in the early 1990’s, when history…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2002: Elaine Lin Hering gives voice to the "Unsilent Generation"
Once-upon-a-time, there was the “Silent Generation” - the self-sacrificing generation of WW2 vets who won the war and built America into a Cold War s…
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Episode 2001: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Adam Hochschild
To celebrate over two thousand episodes of the show, we are launching KEEN ON AMERICA - a special series of personal conversations with prominent Ame…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 2000: Keith Teare on why the Congressional attempt to ban TikTok is astonishingly dumb
I usually hate agreeing with Keith Teare, my libertarian-conservative friend from Palo Alto/Yorkshire. But on TikTok, we are in violent agreement. As…
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Episode 1999: Sasha Issenberg offers a playbook for winning elections in our disinformation age
The most troubling casualty of today’s social media age is our shared sense of reality. Perceptions of reality still exist, but they often come packa…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 1998: Emily Raboteau on how to mother against "the apocalypse"
Last week, the LA Times book critic Bethanne Patrick came on the show to discuss new books about life in our age of the polycrisis. One of these was …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 1997: Benjamin Shestakofsky reveals the inegalitarianism at the heart of the startup economy
University of Pennsylvania sociologist Benjamin Shestakofksy spent a couple of years as the fly on the wall in an anonymous tech startup. His new boo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 1996: Frank H. McCourt, Jr explains why rebuilding the Internet is THE most important issue of our time
Think you know Frank H. McCourt, Jr, the illustrious real estate media magnate, former chairman/owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers & current owner of M…
2 years, 6 months ago