We hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend. After last week’s coverage of the politics of the Roe reversal, we now move on to taking a look at the media, because boy is the consent manufacturing machine whirring into gear. Will looks at a trio of pieces from the New York Times that appear to be buttering up the readership to place the blame squarely on those least responsible, plus time well-spent on a profile of the most annoying people on Earth!
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Sarah Longwell, host of the podcast The Focus Group—and also host of actual bona-fide, gold-standard focus groups—reports on the changing sentiment after the Dobbs ruling. Plus, a president tries to shame companies into lowering prices, while a governor thinks now is the time for fiscal stimulus. And the Highland Park shooter is, in some ways, atypical, but, at the same, time horrifyingly familiar.
On the publication day of Noah Rothman’s The Rise of the New Puritans, Matthew Continetti joins the podcast to discuss Noah’s book, the horrible massacre in Highland Park at the July 4th parade, and the troubling news out of Ukraine. Give a listen. Source
Six dead in Illinois parade shooting. A person is interest is in custody. Britney Griner's wife speaks out. America's star-spangled birthday. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.
Located in the heart of North America is one of the most important rivers.
It isn’t the longest river in the world and it doesn’t carry the highest volume of water. However, its location makes it one of the most valuable rivers on Earth
It has been the subject of songs, the location of military battles, and is one of the most important economic transportation corridors on the planet.
Learn more about the Mississippi River and what makes it so different than any other river in the world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
What to know about a shooting at an Independence Day parade and people elsewhere protesting the reason eight police officers opened fire.
Also, what a WNBA star wrote to President Biden from inside a Russian prison.
Plus, what type of location data Google now says it will automatically delete, what devices replaced fireworks shows in some cities, and which movie is breaking new records at the box office.
Zayd Dohrn was born - underground - his parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, on the run from the FBI. Now, Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization declared war on the United States government. They brawled with riot cops on the streets of Chicago, bombed the Pentagon and the U.S Capitol, broke comrades out of prison, and teamed up with Black militant groups to rob banks, fight racism - and help build a revolution.
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In Sudhir Venkatesh's The Tomorrow Game, two teenagers on Chicago's South Side face each other in a story that conveys the pressures and motivations boys face when buying guns. Venkatesh, a professor of sociology and African American studies at Columbia University, tells a true story (with names changed to protect privacy). In an interview with Weekend Edition Saturday, Venkatesh tells Susan Davis about the systemic and cultural challenges that kids face in poor neighborhoods, and says that if we want to solve the problem of gun violence, we must include them in the conversation.
Amanda Holmes reads the eighth stanza of the sixteenth part of “Maud,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
