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208 - "Techno Fascism, Jerking Jeff, and the Mendacious Media"

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207 "Hunter's Laptop, Ordinary Corruption, Darkest Night"

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206 w/ Damon Root "Packed Courts, Peaceful Transfers of Power"

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205 “If You're Reading This, It's Too Late”

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204 w/ Steve Kornacki "What's Up With These Polls?"

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203 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "From Portland to Kenosha to Rochester"

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202 w / Tina Nguyen "Trump on Twitch, Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse"

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201 w / Coleman Hughes "DNC COVID CON, QAnon Don, Canceling Kmele"

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200 w / Andrew Sullivan "Uncancellable Andrew and the Great Media Miasma"

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199 "Nothing to See Here, An Emergency Every Minute"

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198 w/ Nancy Rommelmann "There's a Riot Goin' On"

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197 w/ Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Chatterton Williams "Hypocrisy, Controversy, Cancellations"

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UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #29 🎁 - The Williamsburg Tapes - This Podcast is Lava

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196 w/ Josh Szeps "Covid, Cancellation, and Melanated Peoples"

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195 w/ Yascha Mounk "Woke Fragility"

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194 w/ Wesley Lowery "Moral Clarity, Objectivity, and ALL THE SMOKE"

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193 w/ Jacob Siegel "Why We Need the NYT, The New Truth"

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192 w/ Jane Coaston "One Night In Tulsa, A Fool Proof Plan"

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191 w/ David French "American Racism, SCOUTS Stuff, Qualified Immunity"

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190 w/ Olivia Nuzzi " Insiders Guide to 2020, Defunding the Fuzz"

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189 "A Pandemic, A Civil War, A Great Awokining "

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188 “On Anti-Racism II w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams”

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187 w/ Bari Weiss "Karens in the Ramble, Section 230"

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186 w/ Balaji Srinivasan, Conor Friedersdorf - "Predicting Pandemics, Fixing Journalism"

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185 w/ Ethan Strauss - "What's the Matter With Michael Jordan"

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184 w/ Rep Justin Amash - "The Case for the Spoiler*"

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183 w/ Glenn Greenwald - "Pandemic Censorship + Close Encounters"

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182 w/ Jonah Goldberg - "President Goop's Ultralight Beam Vaccine"

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181 w/ Zaid Jilani, Coleman Hughes "On Pandemic Raceism"

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180 w/ Bari Weiss: "We're All Sinologist Now"

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Episode 179: "A Most Racist Pandemic, Failure to Test"

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Episode 178: "The Great American Shut In, Authoritarianism and Liberty Fetishism"

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Episode 177: "More COVIDAPALOOZA, We're Inside the Plane, Matt Lovingly Fingers His Axe"

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UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #14 🎁

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Episode 176: "My Corona; Pat Foster, Armed and in the Wilderness; and Delicious Miami Floor Drugs"

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Episode 175 w/ Ross Douthat "Apocolypse via Decadence, Coronavirus, or Porn"

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Episode 174 w/ Eli Lake "Biden Surges, Chris Matthews, The FBI Scandal"

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Episode 173 w/ Aaron Maté "Bernie's Campaign Math, From Cuba to Medicare for All"

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Episode 172 "The Swamp, The POTUS, The Press" w/ Swin Suebsaeng, Lachlan Markay

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Episode 171 w/ Jesse Singal "Biden's Ebony Firewall, No BBQ Sauce in American Dirt"

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UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #8 🎁

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Episode 170: "Trump’s Best Week Ever, Iowa Pile Up"

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Episode 169: "I'm so sorry this is happening to YOU"

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Episode 168 w/ Miriam Elder: "Does Anything Matter Anymore?"

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Episode 167 w/ Noah Rothman “ The Case for F*ckin Iran Right Up”

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Episode 166: “Buttigieg Loves Drugs, Soleimani Canceled, Media Malpractice”

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UNLOCKED - Patreon Dispatch #4 🎁

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165 w/Conor Friedersdorf “Mayhem in Jersey City, Foreign Affairs, Gesture Politics”

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164 "UK Elections, Afghan Papers, Prophylactic Impeachment"

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163 "Kamala Quits, NATO Splinters, Impeachments for All"

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162 w/ Errol Morris "Steve Bannon, American Dharmam"

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161 "Unimpeachably Guilty, ILoveFiona, Democratic Debate"

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160 "Pub Hopping, Impeachment Hearings, Roger Stone Goes down"

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159 - w/ Bari Weiss "How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Shifting Political Baggage"

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158 - w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams "Unlearning Race"

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157 - w/ Meghan Daum "The Problem With Everything"

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156 - w/ Walt Hickey "China Cancels the NBA, Trump Cancels the Kurds"

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155 - "Unforgivable, The Swampiest Swamp, DC Star Wars Bar"

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154 - "Still Teflon Don, Moynihan's Emmy, Vaping Panic"

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153 - "Moderate Chic, NYT's Kavanaugh Follies, Our Pal Corn Pop"

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152 - w/ Steve Kornacki "Straight News, Political Tribalism, Chappell's Sticks & Stones"

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151 - "That 1619 Project, Liturgical Journalism, The Batshit Presidency"

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150 - "Churn-alism, The Epstein Suicide (?), Effective Conspiracy Mongering"

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149 - w/ Jon Ronson "Porn Stars, Psychopaths, Cancel Culture"

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148 - w/ Ben Dreyfuss "Mueller Talks, Send Em' Back, Al Franken, A$AP Rocky v. Sweden"

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147 - w/ Molly Jong-Fast "Trump's Social Media Summit, Journalistic Scuttlebutt"

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146 - w/ Patrick Radden Keefe "Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' and a notorious murder mystery"

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145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"

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144 - w/ Coleman Hughes "Reparations, Congressional Testimony, Rap Battles"

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143 - "How to Get Arrested In Brooklyn, We're All Left Wing Hacks Now"

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142 - "The Great Deplatforming, Conspiracy Chic, The Mr. Bean Presidency"

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141 w/ Eli Lake - "Muller Report, Julian Assange, Deep State Grifters "

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140 w/ Ben Dreyfuss - "Muller Who, Jill Abramson's Privilege , True Hollywood Stories"

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139 w/ Andrew Sullivan "Civil Rights, Immigration, Julian Assange, Too Many Popes"

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138 w/ Aaron Maté "Russiagate Victory Lap, Visiting Venezuela, Super Gaye Music"

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137 "Use Your Collusion I and II, Jussie Smollett Walks"

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136 w/ Tina Nguyen "Islamists v White Nationalists, Segregated Schools, 2020 Hopefuls"

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135 "Privileged College Parents, Platform Revoked"

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134 w/ Andrew Yang “The Universal Basic Income (and a few other things besides)"

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133 “Canceling Neverland (and everything else), They're All Socialist Now"

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132 w/ Mark Weisbrot “Venezuela: Failed State or Coup D'etat?"

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131 “Jussie Smollett Indicted, Hate Crimes, Hacks in the Newsroom, Bernie"

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130 “The Jill Abramson Affair, Jewish Money, Indentured Servitude"

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129 w/ Brendan O'Neill “ Yellow Vests, Subway Sandwiches, Mostly Free Speech"

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128 “A BOMBSHELL (If True), Punching MAGA Teens, Venezuela"

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127 w/ Brian Stelter “The Holy Order of Journalism, Excommunicating Steve King"

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126 “Trump's Fence, Dating Ocasio-Cortez, Shaun King's Crusade”

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125 w/ Ben Smith “The (Syrian) Withdrawal Method, Journalistic Imperatives”

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124 w/ Yascha Mounk "The People vs Democracy, Beyond Nationalism and Identity Politics"

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123 w/ Michael Barbaro and Jody Avirgan "Live at the Comedy Cellar in NYC"

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122 w/ Kevin Roose “Russiagate Reloaded, Facebook, Google, China"

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121 “On Anti-Racism w/ Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams”

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120 "Everything* You Need Know About The 2018 Midterms, Serious Journalism, The Beleaguered"

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119 w/ Noah Rothman “Political Violence and The Great Disillusionment”

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118 “A Conversation w/ Sarah Haider: Identity, Apostasy and Islam”

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117 w/ Josh Szeps "Saudi Business, Proud Boys v. Antifa"

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116 w/ Harry Siegel "Soros' Paid Protest Mobs, Team Woke vs Team Resentment"

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115 w/ Bari Weiss "Kavanaugh, Believing Her, Abercrombie & Fitch Forever"

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114 "Notes on Moynihan's European Excursion, The Kavanaugh Hearings"

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113 "McCain's Eulogy, Louis CK's Resurrection, Monkeying Things Up"