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The Eclectic Radical: When Left Media is Right Wing (opens the original)
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There’s more to it than just friends talking about something that made us mad. This should be a useful warning about tribalism and preconceptions. It should be a sign that the alignment between authoritarian socialist parties and social democrats is thinner than we sometimes like to believe. Mx. Nino, who joined me for this conversation, is a friend from Twitter but we are mad because these issues are important and “fitness” is a social concept that needs to be defeated whatever you think about
The Caves We Take With Us (opens the original)
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Plato used a famous metaphor in the work “The Republic” to outline the disconnect between people with intellectual curiosity and critical thinking and other people, saying that we live in a cave. The cave is dark, we light it with a fire, and we occasionally see shadows from outside the cave against the cave wall because of the fire. We watch those shadows and we believe that they are really descriptive of what happens outside of the cave and we tell stories about the shadows. If I leave the cav
The Eclectic Radical: Another Sunday With Renee (opens the original)
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I always love having Renee Johnston on the show because she’s smart, well-read, enjoys my quirks and weird habits as much as I do, and usually has thoughts of her own to add. We started with a clip from my previous show with Erica Ifill, about how borders only exist to protect wealth, and let the conversation go from there! I hope you guys enjoy it!
The Eclectic Radical: What Should We Ask Of Our Leaders? (opens the original)
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First, congratulate me on managing to book guests for three Sundays in a row! Last week, I was joined by Peter Kuznick for a short talk. This week I was joined by Erica Ifill for a longer talk. Next week I will be joined by Renee Johnston for something longer than the conversation with Peter but shorter than the conversation with Erica! I really enjoyed this conversation, but while we had a few segues back to our original intended topic this show took on a life of its own as we just go into enjo
The Eclectic Radical: What, Me Worry? (opens the original)
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Twenty minutes with Dr. Peter Kuznick on the topic of nuclear war. This interview happened because Dr. Kuznick was kind enough to include me on the mailing list for the letter to Pope Leo that we discuss in the show. In the interest of completeness, I am providing the complete text of the letter and the original signatories below. I am generally skeptical of appeals to authority, but this doesn’t cost anything and is potentially very useful. So I have to say that I fully endorse and co-sign the
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