EPISODE · Feb 27, 2011 · 55 MIN

Tyrants

from Sociology Improv · host Jon Smajda

Our first episode recorded in 2011 finds Jesse in Iraq once again and our minds on protest and revolution. Enjoy! Miscellaneous links discussed: David Cay Johnston on Public Workers’ Pensions Giddens on Gaddafi Jonathan Haidt on liberal bias (This is “the psychology guy” we mention in the first minute, but decide not to talk about.) […]

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[1]Our first episode recorded in 2011 finds Jesse in Iraq once again [2] and our minds on protest and revolution. Enjoy! Miscellaneous links discussed: David Cay Johnston on Public Workers' Pensions [3] Giddens on Gaddafi [4] Jonathan Haidt on liberal bias [5] (This is “the psychology guy” we mention in the first minute, but decide not to talk about.) Deposed Despot Survivor [6] “What’s Gene Simmons done now?” [7] This podcast is now old enough to drink. Download episode 21! [8] [1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2011/02/album-art-ep21.png [2] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/2010/06/03/live-from-kurdistan/ [3] http://tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/UBEN-8EDJYS?OpenDocument [4] http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/perils-of-public-intellectualizing/32610 [5] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html [6] http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/40199760426176512 [7] http://twitter.com/#!/schussman/status/40622543362588673 [8] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/socimprov21.mp3

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