Podcast Episodes

Freddie deBoer: Blue Cities Progressives Need to Get Real on Involuntary Commitment

Season 1 Episode 5

Freddie DeBoer knows a thing or two about mental illness. He’s been admitted into psychiatric hospitals five times; he was involuntarily committed in…

1 year ago

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Why Didn't Blue Cities Going Woke Help the Marginalized?

Season 1 Episode 4

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi is having a well-deserved moment. His highly praised new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a N…

1 year ago

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Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?

Season 1 Episode 3

America’s bluest big cities are in a tense, co-dependent relationship with the tech giants that power their economies and anchor their prosperity. 

It…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Was the "insufferable left" to blame for Trump's big gains in blue cities?

Season 1 Episode 2

In decisively winning the presidency, some of Donald Trump’s biggest gains came in the places you’d least expect them: big blue cities and urban subu…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Dan Savage on Trumpism and the future of blue cities

Season 1 Episode 1

Twenty years ago, in the wake of a searing presidential defeat, Dan Savage encouraged progressives to move to blue cities and to fortify them into an…

1 year, 4 months ago

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