The purpose is exactly what Matt talked about years ago with calling MS-13 "animals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBHdCRiE2xM the goal is to set parameters for who is human and make it easier for all future killings

That was pretty much the message of George Romero's final in-canon installment of The Living Dead series, Land of The Dead. They were just going peaceably about their existence only to have it violently interrupted by marauding humans.

mother of god that effective altruism shit is metastasizing, that's terrifying.

This week we're joined by University of Chicago professor of history, Gabriel Winant, to discuss the social and political origins of the modern healthcare industry in places like Pittsburgh and Appalachia.

To learn more, you can purchase Gabe's book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091

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Episode 276: Infirmary Blues (w/ special guest Gabriel Winant)

Our good friend Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) is back to tell us about the NEOM city-state in the Saudi Arabian desert, as well as all the soulless architects and designers working on it. 

You can read Kate's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagner

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Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

Everything from religion to industrial disasters to Mehdi Hasan's debating methods

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Episode 278: The Freight Awakening

This week we talk Ukraine, the ruling class's fixation on Boxes, and the mass hysteria of Devil's Milkshakes issuing from East Palestine, Ohio

Check out Aaron's story here: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/this-machine

Tarence's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-devils-milkshake-ray

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Episode 279: Vance Macabre

This week we talk about the ecological phenomenon known as "whiskey fungus," followed by a hard pivot into the world of higher ed

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Episode 280: Valedictorian Of The Soft Curriculum

This week we tackle some hard questions: is the perfect relationship possible? Who is the Universal Christ? Should colleges be more like prison? After that we finish it all up with some Synth Your Piece.

Tarence's article in the Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/covidreliefkentucky/

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Episode 281: What If I Stumble

A mysterious man crawled out of the ceiling of Tom's high school English class and taught everyone a very important lesson. Also features coverage of the Murdaugh murder trial, and a reading of David Frum's Iraq War revisionism. 

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Episode 282: Keep Your Dreams Alive

This week we discuss (yet again) Silicon Valley Bank, Bret Stephens's reflections on the Iraq War, and a man named Johnny Shield's views on conservatism in higher education.

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Episode 283: Baghdad Bob The Builder

This week we discuss one white liberal's quest to end race-based affirmative action

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Episode 284: White Man Down

This week we're talking about landlord self defense classes, tenant unions, and tenant organizing, with special guests Katy Slininger (Cargill Tenants Union) and Ben Mabie (Crown Heights Tenant Union, Tenant Union Flatbush). Make sure to stick around for the end, where we look at how landlords are arming themselves for the rev.

Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-emergency-tenant-organizing-committee/

Connecticut Tenants Union: https://www.cttenantsunion.org/

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Episode 285: Con Air Landlordism (w/ special guests Katy Slininger & Ben Mabie)

This week it's a grab bag of allergy-fueled bits and news, followed by an op-ed from a friend at the NYTimes about the formula for making crime go up

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Episode 280: Valedictorian Of The Soft Curriculum

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