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For my latest podcast, I interview Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen of the University of Wisconsin about her recent book The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. The second part of that title is key, because this is a really amazing book that covers all of U.S. intellectual...
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The ratfuck next time

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In our forthcoming podcast with Adam Serwer, he noted that one recurring theme of his (excellent) new book is that Trump kept confounding attempts to rationalize his appeal as being about "economic anxiety" by being completely explicit about making clear that his appeal was about racism....

The 1979 Lab Leak

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A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria using Gram stain technique. Anthrax is diagnosed by isolating B. anthracis from the blood, skin lesions, or respiratory secretions or by measuring specific antibodies.

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Vaccines and “freedom”

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There's no doubt that the key word in the right wing lexicon in America is "freedom," followed closely by its slightly more abstract and intellectual-sounding cousin "liberty." The problem with these words is that in terms of political discourse they're by nature almost completely vacuous terms....
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