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Cicero and the Founding Fathers (Rebroadcast)
Jeffrey Rosen is a legal scholar and the President of the National Constitution Center. He’s the author “the Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.”
Why Rightwing Populism beats Leftwing Populism
Darializa Avila Chevalier and the Bernie Wing
Darializa Avila Chevalier is headed to Congress--the academic, socialist, and Muslim championed by NYC Mayor Mamdani won her primary, and will soon make AOC look comparatively moderate and prac...
Zuby Grew up in a Company Town
Zuby is a British rapper who spent his childhood on a Saudi Aramco compound—a sprawling corporate community complete with schools, recreation, housing, and services. We discuss what it was like growing up in a place where one company effect...
Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford
The Company Town that Banned Soccer
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing, built the modern automobile industry, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes in American history. Then he decided to conquer the Amazon.
The Dark Side of Corporate Utopia
George Pullman built his employees a sparkling company town with clean homes, parks, libraries, luxury trains, and some of the best living conditions in the country—but demanded obedience in return. When recession hit and workers rebelled a...
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