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Podcast: Ward Bosses and Alligator Bishops: Irish Americans and Tammany Hall with Terry Golway

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For this Saint Patrick’s Day episode, Luke Sheehan asked Irish-American historian and New York history expert Terry Golway to help create an overview of the Irish American experience, with a focus on post-famine migration and the infamous Tammany Hall. Episode Credits: Host: Luke Sheehan Music: Loafing Heroes – ​​https://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com Produced by Massimiliano Galli – https://www.massimilianogalli.com … Read more

The Most Natural Thing in the World III

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To tell you the truth, I could easily have been a father, and I would be a father now, had my wife J not miscarried a baby we once made. This was in 2002, so he or she would have been eighteen by now. So strange to envisage it: another life – for me, for … Read more

The Mad King’s Final Stand

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“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it,” Lindsey Graham, May 3, 2016 With the world looking on, on Wednesday January 6th President Trump incited his followers to storm the U.S. Congress in order to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. An election which he lost by millions … Read more

The End of American Leadership

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First there was: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ Then there was: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.’ Now there is: ‘We have so much testing. I don’t think you need that kind of testing or that much testing, but … Read more

Democracy in Decay: Steve Bannon & Jordan Peterson

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The intellectual decay associated with Jordan Peterson has provided the soil wherein Steve Bannon’s seedlings have germinated.

Predictions 2020: 5G Rollout, Trump Card & Reuters Report

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Five predictions for 2020: The Trump Card, an analysis of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019, CES 2020, implications of 5G rollout and a Republican climate change pivot. The Trump Card For all the talk of a fading U.S. Superpower since President Trump came to office, there is one statistic firmly in his favor. … Read more

The Doomsday Machines

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Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film ‘Dr Strangelove’ dramatizes the still not-altogether-remote scenario of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). It begins with a deranged U.S. Airforce General, Jack D. Ripper, overriding Executive Command and ordering a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The Russians, unbeknownst to the Americans, have developed a deterrent – the Doomsday Machine – … Read more