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His latest book is The Sickness is the System when Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself.

the school is a force for good in a sense that HPS grads are good at what they do but they rarely do good rather than producing business physicians who vow to do no harm Harvard Business School has become the west point of capitalism producing business mercenaries driven by self-interest beholden to no one believing in nothing

It's not your job to psychoanalyze the public, yes it's not your job to be the politician spinning the data or hiding the ball, it is just your job to disseminate the information and then let us all handle it.

I've got an awesome guest that you guys have probably listened to if you listened to the realignment. Speaking of Chris Fenton, he's the author of Feeding the Dragon inside the trillion dollar dilemma facing Hollywood, the NBA and American business.

Yeah, my pleasure. Follow me at the Dragon feeder on on Tic on TikTok. No, I Twitter and Feeding the Dragon inside the trillion dollar dilemma facing Hollywood, the NBA and American business is the name of the book.

Well, Steven Hayes has a new book out called The Connection and Mr. Hayes from the New York Times yesterday they have a quote from the staff report that is scheduled to be coming out from the independent commission uh on 9 11 during the sometime during the next couple weeks the staff report found that there was no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on tax against the United States and that repeated contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship.

I think liberating Iraq will send a strong message to Iran, North Korea and other hostile regimes not only because it will show that we will the United States will not tolerate bullies especially bullies with weapons of mass destruction but it will also I think hopefully show what a free liberated people what a free liberated Iraqi people can do for themselves and it will again be a fabulous model not only for the Middle East but for places throughout the world that haven't had these kinds of freedoms in the past.

There can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq worked with Osama bin Laden al-Qaeda to plot against Americans.

she is always cognizant of what her presence and her wins represent that she always sees herself as the answer and reaps the benefits from that

there was not any discussion of policy the why she would run we launched into a void without a world view

this was her thinking sign on to his bill first to get the credit for taking a bold stand and make the announcement as a surprise at the end of August in a church back home in Oakland

she had been told by the states that she had so thin a grasp of the policy that she said she was backing she said she was backing Medicaid for All in that church

Princeton is the world's first perpetual motion machine Gladwell writes at the heart of his argument is this quote after a stellar year in 2021 Princeton University has an endowment of thirty seven point seven billion over the past twenty years the average annual return for the endowment has been eleven point two percent which prints puts Princeton's return next year at roughly three point seven seven billion he continues now what is Princeton's annual operating budget that would be one point eight six billion the arithmetic is not hard three point seven billion investment minus one point eight six and operating still leaves you with one point nine one billion leading him to conclude what quote Princeton could let every student in for free

I forget what I think it's called my life with the eskimos about a norwee Norwegian-american explorer who went to upper canada and 1900 fascinating stuff.

She's not being particularly self-reflective, said one longtime ally who was on calls with her shortly after the election. Instead, Hillary kept pointing her finger at Comey and Russia.

Hillary wants to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way.

This person said that strategy had been set within 24 hours of her concession speech.

They went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public.

Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument in Brooklyn.

It's the cost of living plus election.

We will win the selection if we convince voters we care about their economic well-being.

Now that's what I call it. Yes, abortion is going to be a very important piece, the assault weapons are very important piece, the extremism a very important piece, but it's a cost of living election plus.

...you have to start with the cost of living...

...the only thing people want to hear is how you can help them...

Stephen Hayes wrote how Al Qaeda's collaboration with Saddam Hussein has endangered America.

Stephen Hayes of the weekly standard that is the person that we're dealing with this one of the chief drivers of the war in Iraq wrote a book literally claiming falsely that Al Qaeda had deep connections with Saddam Hussein in the war in Iraq.

a key to Noam Chomsky's famous Manufacturing Consent was revealing institutional incentives within media that come together to produce manufactured content on behalf of the powerful

now we recently covered a groundbreaking study here from jackabin you govern the center for working class politics which sought to identify the type of candidates who perform best with the multiracial working class

She's out with a new book. It's called Homecoming, The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World

This is one of the things a fantastic author, Beth Macy, she wrote such a great book called Dope Sick on the origins of this crisis.

She's based down in Southwestern Virginia around Roanoke, that whole area has been hit so incredibly hard as has Kentucky.

All of Appalachia has been hit so incredibly hard.

And she really traces it back to people who were doing hard physical labor and they had terrible chronic pain.

And so you get a prescription for oxy. And then once that is once the doctor will no longer prescribe, well, that's actually when you really get into trouble and when you turn to the street and when you end up on heroin.

He's the author of Dignity.

And, Chris, one of the things that Crystal and I most appreciate about your work is that you just simply talk to people and you don't judge them.

One of the latest ones that you wrote in your sub-stack was about among the unvaccinated. Just tell us about what you found amongst working class people who are out there who don't feel like they want to get the vaccine.

And, you know, I think there's a lot going on there when someone makes it that, you know, what I think is a reckless decision. I think most people would say is probably a reckless decision. It makes it a core to their identity, makes it feel like something they're proud of, you know, and there's something I've written about in Dignity, about also about addiction and other such things.

I'm very sympathetic in my book and I've been sympathetic a lot about the idea of owning the smug elites, you know, like I get the fact that if the elites tell you to do something, there's a tendency to say, well, everything else they've ever told me has been wrong. They don't like me. They think I'm icky, then I'll just do the opposite. And I think there's some of that going on here.