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America This Week Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn
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Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
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America This Week, June 21, 2024: "Cheap Fakes and Real Mind Games"
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Walter and Matt discuss Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden, and the slow death of objective reality. Plus, "The Door," by E.B. White -
America This Week, June 14, 2024: "Elections and Dragons"
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Matt and Walter play a new election preparedness role-playing game produced by the CIA's venture capital arm (Racket story to come), and discuss Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace" -
America This Week, June 7, 2024: “America’s Grand Inquisitor”
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Now that jailing political opponents is a norm, does America think freedom is overrated, and authority be celebrated? Also, Walter and Matt discuss Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor”
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America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, Episode 91
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America This Week, May 24, 2024: "Life on Polarized Mars"
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America This Week, May 17, 2024: "Delusion, Not Just Once A Year"
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A wild backlash against a poll underscores the neverending cycle of mad delusions that American pop culture has become. Plus, Heinrich Böll's my-how-relevant "Christmas Not Just Once a Year."