Journalist Moe Tkacik joins us to look at a number of issues she’s reported on recently. Starting with the alarming prevalence of sexual assault allegations among Trump’s new cabinet picks, we follow the trail of backlash to accountability among the ultra-rich to College campuses and of course, Israel. We then turn to Moe’s reporting on the growing tumor of private equity in the American healthcare industry, and how these financial barons are gutting our already threadbare hospital system.
Find Moe on Twitter: https://x.com/moetkacik
And here writing at the American Prospect: https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/
Amanda Holmes reads Carolyn Rodgers’s “how i got ovah.” 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.
How much should we expect in terms of enhanced liberty and savings for taxpayers from the "Department" of Government Efficiency? Cato's Tom Firey and the Pacific Legal Foundation's Willie Yeatman break down some elements of the challenge.
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This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing with you my extremely fun appearance on the wonderful podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out.You can watch it on Youtube, including the dynamite animation from my friend, Arthur Jones, here.
2024 Green Party Presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein returns to Bad Faith for a two-hour breakdown of what really happened on Election Day. She addresses the gap between the CAIR poll estimates of the Green Party vote and the actual results, our country's inability to conduct ballot tracking, and whether the party will pursue a recount as they did in 2016. Moreover, Dr. Stein addresses pervasive criticism from the corporate center and the left, including concerns that the party is two "top town," lacking labor roots, and needs to be overhauled. Finally, what's next for the Greens?
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Charles Taylor, joins in to discuss his new book, “Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment.”
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Intro music by Jack Bauerlein.
There are many things in our world that have surprisingly ancient origins.
One of the things that most definitely does not have ancient origins in the concept of prison and incarceration as punishment.
Today, almost everywhere in the world, the primary form of punishment for crimes is incarceration. Yet historically speaking, this form of punishment was almost never practiced until the modern era.
Learn more about prisons and jails, what the difference is and how they came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com.
This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing with you my extremely fun appearance on the wonderful podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out.You can watch it on Youtube, including the dynamite animation from my friend, Arthur Jones, here.
