Read With Me: Recent Episodes
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg welcome Julia Curlee to discuss the destruction of the infrastructure of US intelligence.
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Wherein Carol Tsang of the Greek Chorus asks Ben about how precedent informs Supreme Court decisions, and Ben tries to answer.
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Wherein Ben, Anastasiia Lapatina, and the Greek Chorus discuss the strategic objectives of the Greek Chorus Foundation and plan its next several months of operations.
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Wherein Ben tells Alicia Wanless about being ordered around by an AI, and Alicia tells Ben about seeing Nolan's Odyssey.
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Wherein Ben tells Eve Gaumond about his latest project: using AI to count the total number of US federal criminal laws.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina gives some life updates, from movies to divorce to protests in Kyiv.
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Wherein Mike Feinberg reviews Emily Wilson's review of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. Ben and the Greek Chorus spectate.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Roger Parloff to discuss developments in Trump's prosecution of Jim Comey for seashell-based threats.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the difficulties of attempting to describe Trump's behavior.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher consider variations on repentance, with reference to the children of Nazis, the American South, and Laura Loomer.
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Author James Campbell joins us to discuss his book, Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, and the Langston Hughes poems he chose to accompany it (which you can find here).
Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher talk karaoke, tariffs, college tuition, and more.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the effects that developments in AI and quantum computing will have on how cybersecurity functions.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher take questions from Eve Gaumond on everything from book proposals to JFK's sexual behavior.
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Wherein Ben discusses the case against the guy who pulled a bit of paint out of the Reflecting Pool, and Holly Berkley Fletcher talks about the rise of xenophobic violence in South Africa.
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Wherein the Greek Chorus Foundation is all set up, and Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina introduce its first fundraising goal. Contribute at: https://greekchorusfoundation.org/
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Amanda Carpenter and Molly Roberts to discuss Trump's speech on election interference and how the Trump administration is trying to use conspiracy theories to interfere with lawful voting.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Molly Roberts to speculate about what election conspiracy theories Trump will put forward in his speech tonight.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Julia Curlee, former CIA analyst and NSC staffer, to discuss the Trump administration's destruction of the National Security Council.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss Hannah Arendt, and Holly Berkley Fletcher explains the distinction between evangelicalism and white evangelicalism.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Will Saletan to discuss the life and legacy of Lindsey Graham.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ari Tabatabai, fresh from the NATO summit in Turkey, to discuss Trump, Ukraine, and European security without the US.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina tells us about various corrupt, bizarre, and fascinating recent events in Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and Holly Berkley Fletcher celebrate Canada Day, debate political Stoicism, and discuss which products Instagram is trying to sell them.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg plan a rom-com based on Anna Bower's latest misadventures.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss how best to design a protest at the reflecting pool.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Alicia Wanless try to identify the best anti-US, anti-Canada song.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina gives us an update on parenting under Russian bombardment, and Holly Berkley Fletcher has more news on Trump's triumphal arch.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the problems with the legal academic establishment.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher discusses her visit to Rwanda, Ben and Holly introduce their safari guide Moses, and Jonathan Rauch wants to talk about the latest SCOTUS ruling.
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Wherein Ben has returned from safari and Eve Gaumond is concerned about school systems using AI to predict dropouts.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina go over recent developments in the war in Ukraine, and Eve Gaumond returns to discuss Greek Chorus reactions to her concerns about Ben's AI usage.
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Wherein Eve Gaumond is concerned about the way Ben interacts with Claude. Mike Feinberg and the Greek Chorus weigh in.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless discuss the economic and psychological position of billionaires, and the Greek Chorus joins in for a discussion of monopolies in the digital age.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katie Gaddini to discuss her new book on the position of women in the MAGA movement.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss scheduling for the next few weeks, Andrew Steele gives an update on the Greek Chorus foundation, and Alicia Wanless checks in after her trip to Japan.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katherine Pompilio to discuss her investigation of recidivism amongst January 6th pardonees.
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Wherein Mike Feinberg remembers Tiananmen Square, Holly Berkley Fletcher practices her speech, and Ben leads discussion of various midterm races.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher is going to give a speech opposing Trump's plans to build himself an arch and asks the Greek Chorus to write it for her.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Andrew Steele plan the next phase of Project Battery.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss Russian drone strikes, Ebola outbreaks, the historical memory of the Holocaust, and all the bands that aren't playing at Trump's 4th of July celebration.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg report on a Bruce Springsteen concert, and Holly Berkley Fletcher is losing her mind.
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Wherein Ben answers questions from the Greek Chorus about whether and how it might be possible to prosecute Trump for his corruption after he leaves office.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the complicated ethics of journalism in Ukraine and how real journalism differs from propaganda.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss consuming the products of cultural evil, and Anastasiia Lapatina gives an update on the Russian bombing of civilians in Kyiv.
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Wherein Ben revisits an article he wrote about leftist antisemitism after October 7th in light of the last few years of Israeli policy.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Stacey Young to talk about her organization, Justice Connection, which supports former DoJ employees ousted by the Trump administration.
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Wherein Ben, Andrew Steele, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss various DoJ related news, including Ben's latest Special Military Operation and Todd Blanche's congressional testimony.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss Trump's impacts on the global economic order, from food insecurity to energy production.
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Wherein Ben shows off the new federal litigation research tool he's built.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Keri Ladner to discuss her new book, American Dominion, about dominionism and the evangelical alliance with Trump.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss movies that make you feel bad, from political satire to black comedy to a film about the psychology of authoritarianism.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome former State Department Africa analyst Dan Kobayashi to discuss the State Department under Trump, Uganda's dictatorship, and the fascinating case of Lesotho.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss various aspects of the midterm elections, including individual Senate races and the implications of gerrymandering.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss evangelical obsession with Trump from the perspective of idolatry.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss broad strategic considerations from the perspective of Iran and congressional Democrats.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Jimmy Rushton, a reporter working in Ukraine, to tell us about his latest reporting on resistance movements in Russian-occupied territory.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the corruption scandal surrounding Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Author Karen Masterson joins us to discuss her book, The Malaria Project, and the novel she chose to accompany it, Albert Camus’s The Plague.
Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina introduces her new podcast, Mildly Alarmed, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discusses Christian nationalism.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Antti Ruokonen discuss Ukraine, Substack, and keeping the house clean.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Mike Feinberg, and Jonathan Rauch discuss whether an ethical career federal government official is obligated to resign.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher returns to the show to discuss everything on her mind, including book awards, petty feuds, and very unsympathetic South Africans.
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Wherein Ben and the Greek Chorus discuss the drawbacks and challenges created by privacy regulations.
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Wherein Ben and the Greek Chorus discuss the current leadership in the US military, including career military officers, Trump administration stooges, and AI.
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Wherein Ben, Eve Gaumond, and the Greek Chorus discuss whether the Nixon era was a high point of US democracy and the merits of Rahm Emanuel as a presidential candidate.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Andrew Steele to discuss the indictment of the SPLC and Jonathan Rauch to discuss Kash Patel's lawsuit against The Atlantic.
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Wherein Ben, weary of finding and interviewing good guests, hands the show over to Holly Berkley Fletcher for a discussion of gerrymandering and drones.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Elizabeth Tsurkov, scholar and ex-hostage, to discuss the Israeli perspective on the war with Iran.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca for a discussion of Viktor Orban's election loss and what it tells us about the nature of autocracy.
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Wherein Ben hosts a live taping of the Lawfare Podcast, with a panel discussion of the prosecutions of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leadership, which the Trump administration is now trying to vacate.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg welcome Quinta Jurecic to discuss Harmeet Dhillon, Trump's head of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ, and the damage being done to civil rights law in the US.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Deece Eckstein, a Texas-based activist, to discuss the Republican Senate runoff and the broader political situation in Texas.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the absurd military leader in Uganda and the defeat of Orban in Hungary.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Mike Feinberg, and the Greek Chorus discuss mismanagement in the DOJ and what public spaces should allow dogs. These issues turn out to be related.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Ari Tabatabai to discuss the details of the current ceasefire with Iran.
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Wherein Ben introduces Mike Feinberg and Anastasiia Lapatina to a game called "Tell Me Something Interesting."
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss the majesty of the cosmos and the fundamental insignificance of human squabbles. They also discuss some human squabbles.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anna Bower to discuss government non-compliance with court orders, the firing of Pam Bondi, and a scandal-prone tortoise.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Mike Pesca to discuss the art of the podcast monologue and public speaking more generally.
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Wherein Ben, Anastasiia Lapatina, Jonathan Rauch, and the Greek Chorus discuss yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the paradoxical effects of AI development on human society.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and the Greek Chorus follow up on Sunday's book club discussion of Antigone and debate the philosophical implications of AI ownership.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the architects of the Iraq War and how they live with themselves.
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Andrew Steele leads a Greek Chorus discussion on Sophocles’s Antigone and Jean Anouilh’s Antigone.
Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Mike Feinberg, and the Greek Chorus discuss how various evangelical Trump administration figures are praying publicly for the deaths of their enemies.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus welcome Shane Harris to discuss various intelligence failures in the Trump administration.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the effects of online prediction markets.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss conspiracy theories, old movies, upcoming Special Military Operations, and who stabbed Mike in the throat.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss Reconstruction Era history and the recent reporting on Cesar Chavez.
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Wherein Ben went to court yesterday to get his lasers back. Anna Bower, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus get a full account.
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The following is the livestream footage of the my projection from July 5, 2025—including my interactions with the National Park Service Police. I have kept it unpublished until the case was resolved but am releasing it today.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Tyler McBrien to discuss his new investigative podcast on the Georgia Guidestones and the conspiratorial right wing.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss whether the American public cares about violations of international law.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and the Greek Chorus welcome Scott Shapiro to discuss malicious AI agents and how to regulate them.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina go over various Project Battery updates and discuss the situation in Ukraine as the weather warms.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and the Greek Chorus discuss philosophical and policy approaches to understanding AI.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss their recent interactions with Anthropic's AI model, Claude, and what they've learned from the experiences.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher discusses the latest on Havana Syndrome and Ben, Jonathan Rauch, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the wars in Iran and Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss the effects the Trump administration has had on the FBI and CIA.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher soldier on through technical difficulties to discuss Christian apocalypticism in the military and Kristi Noem’s congressional testimony.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ari Tabatabai to discuss the situation as US and Israeli attacks on Iran continue.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and the Greek Chorus discuss how to make your inevitable midlife crisis productive and minimally pathetic.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss when additional historical context distracts rather than helping to clarify, with reference to Iran, various intelligence agencies, and land acknowledgements.
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Andrew Steele leads the Greek Chorus in discussion of The Euthyphro and The Apology.
Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the firing of career FBI agents, and Eve Gaumond reports on AI misinformation.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss various outrageous Trump administration behavior, including attacks on refugees, career FBI agents, and Malawi.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher take questions from the Greek Chorus on last nights Special Military Operation, evangelical sects, AI, vyshyvankas, and more.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina welcome Svetlana, a Ukrainian mom running a business aimed at providing community support to other moms, to discuss the practical effects of Russian airstrikes on day to day life.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina gives an update on battery buying operations in Ukraine, and Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher report on the Principles First conference they attended over the weekend.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and the Greek Chorus discuss attacking Iran, reading Plato, and other weekend plans.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome author Windsor Mann to discuss the things people do to live with themselves in the Trump era, from fleeing the country to rethinking deeply held convictions.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg meander from topic to topic, covering antisemitism, poetry, hypothetical leftist authoritarianism, and more.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Brittany Martinez, Executive Director of Principles First, to talk about her organization and its upcoming conference.
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Kori Schake joins us to discuss her new book, The State and the Soldier, and her chosen fiction pairing, Phil Klay’s Redeployment.
Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless catch up and discuss the media ecosystems in Canada and Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Andrew Steele discuss Pam Bondi's recent Congressional testimony.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the newly released affidavit justifying the FBI raid on the Fulton County election offices.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Emily Hoge to discuss the Soviet buildings he saw in Ukraine and how the legacy of Soviet architecture is affecting the war effort today.
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Wherein Ben is back in the US and Anna Bower walks him through various sports-related news he's missed, including an alternate Superbowl half-time show and new Olympic doping schemes.
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Wherein Mike Feinberg, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus catch Ben up on all the US news he's missed while visiting Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina welcome Jimmy Rushton, an independent journalist working in Ukraine, to talk about reporting in a country at war.
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Wherein Ben does a very impromptu show from a bunker in the city of Kharkiv, where the bombing is ongoing and the city is alive. Note: the abrupt end of the show was due to internet connectivity problems.
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Wherein Ben reports on ice in Ukraine, Holly Berkley Fletcher reports on ICE in Minnesota, and Ben has learned a lot about the Jewish community in Odesa.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss Kash Patel's firing of a large group of career FBI agents, amongst other strange behavior by FBI leadership.
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Wherein Mike Feinberg is sick of talking about authoritarianism, so he, Ben, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss pizza, LinkedIn, and how to find a teenager to shovel your driveway.
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Wherein Ben is broadcasting live from Ukraine. He joins Mike Feinberg and Holly Berkley Fletcher to discuss DHS, Greenland, and a battery buying update.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, Tyler McBrien, and Eve Gaumond discuss Mark Carney's speech on Canadian-American relations.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anna Bower to tell us about Lindsey Halligan's departure as US Attorney and Taylor Swift's texts with Blake Lively.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Ari Tabatabai to walk us through the impact of Trump's deranged obsession with Greenland on global power politics.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Micah Holden to discuss creative protest tactics when facing off with the Trump regime.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher celebrate MLK Day by sharing their favorite speeches from the man himself.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina reports on the battery buying initiative, Jonathan Rauch ponders Putin's motivations, Holly Berkley Fletcher has a new parody song, and Ben explains who exactly the Crimean Tatars are.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ari Tabatabai to answer questions from the Greek Chorus about the current situation in Iran.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the practical difficulties of buying batteries for families in Kyiv, including everything from drones strafing overhead to international financial regulations. Holly Berkley Fletcher joins in the discuss the protests in Iran.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina describes the situation in Kyiv, where the Russians are targeting the power grid and it's very, very cold.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss Trump's threats to prosecute Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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The estimable Stephen Marche joins us to talk about his provocative book, “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future.”
Wherein Mike Feinberg discusses the death of shared American culture, Ben talks Brahms, and Anastasiia Lapatina drops by with an update from Kyiv.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg welcome Amanda Carpenter to discuss the work of her organization, Protect Democracy.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss the reality and the legacy of the January 6th insurrection.
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Ben and the Greek Chorus welcome Ari Ali to discuss her film, Ben Between Africa, about Mennonites, missionary culture, and generational trauma.
Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Alicia Wanless, and the Greek Chorus discuss Trump's coup in Venezuela and what happens next.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and John Hawkinson discuss the complexities of monetizing digital celebrity and the newly released deposition of Jack Smith.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Jonathan Rauch, and the Greek Chorus share their wishes for the new year, including democracy, grammatical precision, and shorter monologues.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Kateryna Lisunova to discuss her reporting on the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Andrew Steele discuss their all-time favorite books, from Plato's dialogues to classic Russian literature to an obscure Japanese Catholic novel.
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Wherein Ben tells Mike Feinberg about his new synthesizer set-up and Eve Gaumond tells Ben about her adventures in home renovation.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss various meanings of the word boxing, from packing up to martial arts.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina asks Ben and Mike Feinberg to explain how the presumption of innocence affects large-scale anti-corruption investigations.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss Dan Bongino's departure from the FBI and what destruction he's left in his wake.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher seizes control of the show to discuss karaoke, food, aging, and the nature of beauty.
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Wherein Ben, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Mike Feinberg discuss the Ukrainian government’s efforts to fight corruption and how the FBI is involved.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg start out discussing karaoke and birthday parties and end up opining on the nature of authenticity in the digital age.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Caitlin Tulloch of GiveDirectly, an NGO dedicated to giving cash directly to people living in poverty, to discuss the effects of cash aid.
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Wherein Ben and Minna Ålander discuss Denmark’s recent diplomatic actions, including categorizing the US as a threat and forcing the EU to freeze Russian assets.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond talk dissertation writing, slum-lording, and Ottawa.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome historian Lindsay Chervinsky to discuss her current research on John Quincy Adams.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss why dystopian fiction does not match our dystopian reality. Jonathan Rauch joins in to talk about sex scandals.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher mock an alcoholic raccoon. They also discuss conservation in Kenya and corruption in the US.
For those who missed Thursday’s #BeastOfTheDay, behold the drunk raccoon:
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s long-time chief of staff who was recently fired for corruption. Ava interrupts.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Francesco Galietti, an Italian political analyst, to discuss how the election of a right-wing populist has and has not changed Italy.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss holiday inanities, innovative coup strategies, and why exactly Trump is fixated on Venezuela.
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Wherein someone in the US military ordered a strike on shipwreck survivors adrift at sea, and Ben has Jack Goldsmith on the show to discuss.
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Wherein Ben and the Greek Chorus discuss Taiwan, Venezuela, and Ben’s battle with the Facebook ad algorithm.
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Wherein Ben and the Greek Chorus meander from topic to topic, covering journalism awards, Canadian border control, the Jewish community of Finland, and much more.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss dismissed indictments, incoherent ceasefire negotiations, and what antisemitism looks like in the real world.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Save The Frogs and creator of the Million Frog March, to discuss frogs, democracy, and frog-based democratic intervention.
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Thank you Quinta Jurecic, MB Matthews, she/her, Bob Belanger, LaNita Jones, Steve Beckwith, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Thank you Linda Hoffman, Richard Turyn, Robin White, Steve Beckwith, Sabina Bryant, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome journalist and novelist Stephen Marche to discuss his book The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Carol Tsang discuss when and how religious and non-religious communities in the US came to disagree about how to define political virtue.
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Wherein Ben is filming a Day in the Life video, slowly morphing into Lindsay Halligan, and mentioned in the Epstein files. The Greek Chorus is along for the ride.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss how we define intelligence when we talk about AI, and whether that definition ought to change.
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Wherein it turns out that the Frog March was actually about frogs. We also discuss Kenyan forced labor and the Biblical conception of foolishness.
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Wherein Ben and Anna Bower discuss the hottest MAGA gossip, involving Kash Patel, Mossad, and country music.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ben Wizner of the ACLU to talk about how their previous disagreements about presidential authority look in light of Trump’s attacks on Venezuelan boats.
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Wherein Ben takes questions from the Greek Chorus about the Comey prosecution and talks Brahms with Richard Wattenbarger.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher plan their attendance at an upcoming frog-based protest and discuss January 6th pardons, SNAP benefits, and theater equipment.
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Wherein various Greek Chorus members discuss why we’re all mad at the language learning app Duolingo.
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Wherein Ben and Katherine Pompilio have made a new video to celebrate the arrival of a new projector, and Marichka Hlyten comes on the show to discuss social media outreach strategies.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss Democrats’ election victories, the role of charisma in politics, and how socialism fits into the coalition of democratic forces.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss how Holly’s book is being received by journalists and academia and the importance of critical writing on religious communities.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss various news out of Africa, including Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria, electoral repression in Tanzania, and the ongoing war in Sudan.
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Holly Berkley Fletcher leads discussion on her new book, The Missionary Kids, and the novel she chose to pair it with, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible.
Wherein Alicia Wanless, Mike Feinberg, and Charlie Crain discuss horror from Lovecraft to the modern day, and Ben reveals how he accidentally traumatized neighborhood children.
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Wherein the horror film festival continues with a discussion of the movie Possession.
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Wherein Mike Feinberg and Alicia Wanless have decided to turn the show into a horror movie festival, starting off with a discussion of The Exorcist franchise.
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Wherein the Greek Chorus discusses how to help Nastia keep warm as power outages worsen in Kiev and how to help Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane looms. Contribute to buying Nastia and her family a generator on Venmo or by PayPaling to this address: benjamin.wittes@gmail.com. The following QR Codes will also take you where you need to go:
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss power outages across Ukraine, and Holly Berkley Fletcher joins in for a discussion of the political role of languages, with reference to Ukrainian and Swahili.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Emily Hoge to discuss her reporting on Russian organized crime, its culture, and its relationship to the war in Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss under what circumstances a government “covert action” is actually just murder.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Lauren Buitta of Girl Security and Lad Decker of Blink UX to discuss their newly built platform for educating girls in national security.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Ari Ali, director of the film Ben Between Africa, to talk about missionary kids and intergenerational trauma.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Janine Balekdjian to discuss the role of the Office of Legal Counsel in a properly functioning US government and in the Trump administration.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Laura Field to talk about her new book on the intellectual radicalization of the GOP.
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Wherein Carol Tsang has questions about what the President’s job is actually supposed to be, Ben has thoughts about the legality of drone strikes, and Holly Berkley Fletcher gives an obituary for a Kenyan Prime Minister.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the blind spots of the Western left on Eastern Europe and the concept of imperialism.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss whether and how to engage with Russians while the invasion of Ukraine is ongoing, and talk about Israel, Palestine, and settlements in occupied territories.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss inflatable costumes as a protest tactic, and Molly Roberts comes on to discuss the Letitia James indictment.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg welcome Roger Parloff, who was at Comey’s arraignment yesterday, to tell us all about it.
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Wherein Ben appears as a backlit ghost to discuss the Comey arraignment, and we get an update on the blueberry soup ice cream saga.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Alan Elrod to discuss deployment of the National Guard in US cities, the difference between grassroots and elite political participation, and the importance of just showing up.
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Wherein Ben and Anna Bower welcome Noam Dworman, owner of the Comedy Cellar, to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, anti-semitism, and why there aren’t any tragedy clubs.
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Wherein various cohosts and the Greek Chorus pop in and out to discuss the Ten Commandments, dead Russian journalists, peace in Gaza, Christopher Hitchens, and more.
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Wherein Minna Ålander discusses Russian incursions into NATO territory, and the Greek Chorus discusses blueberry soup, amongst other matters.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anna Bower to discuss her search for the best comedy set about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss Sprites of Mischief, Halloween traditions, and who at Lawfare would win various sporting events.
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Wherein Ben and Shane Harris discuss the details of the indictment of Jim Comey. Spoiler alert: there are no details.
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Alicia Wanless leads our discussion on her new book, The Information Animal, and the novel she chose to pair it with, V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss Trump’s determination to indict Jim Comey, despite the fact that Comey hasn’t committed any crimes at all.
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Wherein Ben and a multitude of estimable cohosts discuss overrated things: weddings, olives, the Supreme Court, and more.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg welcome George Conway to discuss the Trump regime, sociopathy, and the nature of compromise.
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Wherein Ben celebrates Lawfare's 15th birthday with the Greek Chorus.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katsiaryna Shmatsina to discuss the relationships between Belarus, Russia, and Trump's regime.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Genevieve DellaFerra discuss nothing in particular, including lab grown diamonds, rescued cats, protests in London, and the true nature of the wet rat.
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Wherein Alicia Wanless reports on her trips to various conferences in Europe, Mike Feinberg reports on the cultural legacy of Art Garfunkel, and Holly Berkley Fletcher reports on LinkedIn.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher and Mike Pesca are scheduled to debate the legacy of Charlie Kirk, but Mike Pesca is late. Holly and Ben kill time by discussing hostages, Virginia governors, and Ben’s abuse of his cohosts.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss Charlie Kirk, his assassination, and the investigation thereof.
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Wherein Ben and Minna Ålander discuss Russia's "accidental" drone attack on Poland and how various actors are responding.
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Wherein Ben celebrates the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov from Hezbollah captivity, and Anna Bower analyzes the performance of federal judges in Trump immigration cases.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg and the audience discuss whether or not there's a crisis of masculinity and whether or not that's a good thing.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss the joys and challenges of parenting dogs and small children.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Anna Bower discuss recent reporting on pay-offs to Democratic influencers and what ethics influencers should be bound by.
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Wherein Ben honors a master of the art of projection protest, and Holly Berkley Fletcher has some thoughts on the the coalition fighting to release the Epstein files.
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina regales us with the latest in Ukrainian political scandals, including pink drones, rainbow flags, Jesuits, playwrights, corruption, and more.
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Wherein the Taylor Swift fans rise up and seize control of the show to discuss music, romance, and feminism. This is a Swiftie podcast now, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, Jonathan Rauch, and John Hawkinson discuss best practices for drawing on the sidewalk. It's a crime now, so you have to be careful.
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Wherein Ben guilts Alicia Wanless into joining him on the show. The Greek Chorus asks questions on Alicia's new book, the deportation system, and how early one should get to the airport.
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Wherein Ben talks about how different structures of civil society are resisting Trump and how to participate. Anastasiia Lapatina reports in from Kyiv under missile fire.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the Greek Chorus discuss Taylor Swift's engagement and the National Guard's occupation of DC.
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Wherein Minna Ålander discusses Ukraine's new pink missile and Lapland's amethyst mines. Holly Berkley Fletcher has thoughts on the death of James Dobson.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the continuing purge of career intelligence officers by the Trump administration, and what it means for US intelligence capabilities.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond welcome Louis-Philippe Lampron, a Canadian constitutional law professor, to discuss Canadian and American con law and what we can learn from each other.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss the continued firings of career FBI agents.
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Wherein Alicia Wanless discusses the difficulties of promoting a book as an introvert, and Ben talks about what role silliness and satire should have in public discourse.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anne Applebaum to talk about her recent trip through Sudan and the geopolitical implications of Sudan's collapse.
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Edited video of yesterday's interaction with the United States Secret Service contrasted with video of my interaction with the Secret Service in exactly the same location, doing exactly the same operation, one year ago.
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Wherein Fred, a member of the Greek Chorus, has done extensive research on the legalities surrounding the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the US in contrast to Trump's acceptance of a jet from Qatar, and Ben invites him on to talk about it.
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Wherein Trump has invited Putin to a summit in Alaska, and Ben invites Anastasiia Lapatina on to talk about it.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Kate, a former FBI analyst, discuss the complications of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when the DOJ is run by bad actors.
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Wherein Ben discusses Trump's imposition of the National Guard on DC, and Holly Berkley Fletcher has a new resource for finding local protest action in the DC area.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the information environment through the lens of public health, including basic truth hygiene and how to treat a patient infected with fake news.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss what kind of content constitutes pornography for Lawfare readers, and cover wine tariffs, missionary murderers, and abuse of asylum seekers along the way.
Anna Bower’s piece on Texas legislative standoffs
Tim Miller’s interview with Andry Hernandez:
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the plight of job seekers in the DC area, debate the desirability of reincarnation, and consider the merits of large-scale organized crime.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss the process of actually writing a book.
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Wherein Ben and Minna Ålander discuss the current state of the European defense establishment, and Minna shares a bunch of great analysis on the subject.
Europe’s Biggest Problem is Pessimism by Caroline de Gruyter
Europe Fills the Void by Minna Ålander
Not Withstanding? An Upbeat Perspective on Societies’ Will to Fight by Roderick Parkes
Moomin Character Removed from Brooklyn Library Exhibition After Racism Concern
Moomin paraphernalia
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Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina (and Ava) have questions about the political situation in Texas, Carol Tsang wants to define totalitarianism, and Holly Berkley Fletcher's book is almost here.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher wants Ben to determine his fashion archetype, and John Hawkinson asks us to consider what it really means when a livestream freezes.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss engagement with internet fans, and John Hawkinson has a question about Trump's judicial nominations.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Jonathan Rauch welcome Deece Eckstein, a veteran Texas lobbyist and political analyst, to discuss the current state of Texas and its government.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg read and review a new profile of Mike in the Atlantic, discussing pandas and the culture of the FBI along the way.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Shane Harris to discuss Shane's new article about James Clapper's dog's graduation. Also, Ben sings a dirge for Tom Lehrer.
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Wherein Ben and a host of Dog Shirt regulars cover a multitude of topics in quick succession, including Ukraine, South Park, global warming, polygraphs, the Arctic, saunas, and a new twist in the Cactus Conspiracy.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg, and Carol Tsang discuss Japanese cinema, with digressions on Epstein, Inspectors General, and the culture of the CIA.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss the books for the new book club and which wines to pair with them, and Antti Ruokonen drops by with a question about historical immigration policy in the US.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg brainstorm a Dog Shirt TV book club, and Richard Wattenbarger joins us from the Greek Chorus to discuss Stravinsky.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg discuss horror movies and Anastasiia Lapatina gives an update on child-rearing in a warzone.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Matt Fulton and Chris Carr of the Secrets and Spies podcast to talk about the historical and cultural role of intelligence operations, both real and fictional.
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Wherein Ben, Mike Feinberg and Alicia Wanless discuss a potential bombshell news story about Trump's BANANA, and Carol Tsang joins in with more thoughts on Japanese history and the origins of totalitarianism.
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Wherein Ben and Mike Feinberg welcome Emily Hoge, a scholar of post-Soviet Russian history, to discuss Putin's recognition of the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
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Wherein Ben celebrates the infighting at the Trump DOJ and discusses the culture of gun ownership with Mike Feinberg and Eve Gaumond.
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Wherein the cactus is dead. Long live the cactus. Also, Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Mike Feinberg discuss Kenyan politics, DOJ refugees, and celebrities on social media.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Mike Feinberg, recently fired from a senior FBI position for being friends with someone Trump doesn't like, to discuss his experiences.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Shane Harris to discuss the Trump CIA's so-called tradecraft review, which concludes that there was no Russian interference in the 2016 election and that James Comey is a crook.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and John Hawkinson cover home renovation, AI, tariffs, law enforcement, and the cactus's bruised ego.
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Wherein Carol Tsang emerges from the Greek Chorus to tell Ben about the history of repression and resistance in Tokugawa Japan.
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Wherein Ben discusses safari adventures with Holly Berkley Fletcher, the state of the Supreme Court with Jonathan Rauch, Swedish and Canadian politics with Alicia Wanless, and the military situation in Ukraine with anyone willing to listen.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anna Bower for a discussion of Independence Day under Trump, as well as DOGE, humor, and the New York Times.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss wildlife in Kenya, Minna Ålander joins in to talk about the seasons in Finland and defense policy in France, and Anastasiia Lapatina drops by with Ukrainian memes.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Tyler McBrien, Lawfare's managing editor, to discuss Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral primary and what, if anything, it means about the country at large.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ben Wizner of the ACLU, with whom he used to argue about civil liberties litigation, to discuss civil liberties litigation in the Trump era.
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Wherein Mike Pesca takes over the show to ask Ben about the effectiveness of the Iran strikes and the war powers debate, and Holly Berkley Fletcher about Kenyan politics.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the recent NATO summit and the future of NATO in the Trump era.
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Wherein Ben has created a deepfake video of judicial nominee Emil Bove putting on vampire make-up, and he and Eve Gaumond discuss the ethical concerns created by a world in which that is possible.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss intelligence officers as they exist in real life.
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Wherein Ben answers Holly Berkley Fletcher's questions on the Supreme Court, deportation, federal grand juries, and more.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Marty Lederman to discuss Trump's legal and constitutional violations in bombing Iran.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss what we know about the Israeli strikes on Iran.
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Wherein Ben is on a train and can't maintain a wifi connection, and Holly Berkley Fletcher tries desperately to cover for him. Swahili, hotels, and naming conventions are discussed.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the role of vaccines in personal and community health and the role of the intelligence community in policy making.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond welcome James Hanks to discuss how he convinced Chat GPT to plan military operations.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher discusses different strategies at play in protesting Trump and Ben answers Anastasiia Lapatina's questions about the US legal system.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher celebrate Trump's messy breakup with Elon, and welcome Marichka Hlyten to talk about the latest developments in Ukraine.
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Wherein Ben discusses lobbying strategy, Holly Berkley Fletcher shares news from across Africa, and the Collegium workshops protest slogans.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher discusses fake news about Sudan, Anastasiia Lapatina welcomes Katsiaryna Shmatsina to talk about national identity and repression in Belarus, and Ben asks why no one is selling old Swedish men on Instagram.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher and Anastasiia Lapatina welcome Jonathan V. Last to talk about optimism and pessimism, building a media empire, and the craft of journalistic writing.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Erin Saltman to discuss the role of gaming and AI in youth radicalization and de-radicalization.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anna Bower and Tyler McBrien to discuss Anna's months-long quest to unmask the administrator of DOGE.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Jonathan Rauch, who has a proposal for potential Democratic legislative strategy in the current budget negotiations.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Mike Pesca to discuss Biden's health while in office and media discussion around it, and continue to prepare for a Special Military Operation targeting Trump's banner outside the Department of Agriculture.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher compare their approaches to household cleanliness and the psychology thereof.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss parenting wins and losses--and the difficulties posed by a baby who's been awake in a bomb shelter all night.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Genevieve DellaFera answer silly questions Alicia's publisher sent her. Desert islands, Ayn Rand, and the effectiveness of the Tokugawa Shogunate are discussed.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss democracy in South Africa and the complete lack of genocide against Afrikaners.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and the audience plan a Special Military Operation targeting Trump's latest ego boost: an enormous banner of his face hanging opposite Lincoln's outside USDA.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Minna Ålander discuss how Trump's attempts to exercise coercive power are going in various domestic and political arenas.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Anastasiia Lapatina for a real-time tour of a Norwegian town on the Russian border and a live interview with a local journalist covering Russian aggression in the Arctic. Holly Berkley Fletcher comes on to discuss her most recent shenanigans, Minna Ålander talks NATO policy, and Ben goes over the recent SCOTUS arguments in the birthright citizenship case.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss Ukrainian perspectives on Russian dissidents, international organizations, and national identity.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome author John Pollack to talk about the place of wordplay in human society.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the difficulties of addressing wealth disparity. Then they welcome Marichka Hlyten to talk about Russian abuse of Ukrainian children.
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Wherein Holly Berkley Fletcher comes on with a list of discussion topics, including refugees, book reviews, South Sudan, and a covert margarita operation.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Jonathan Rauch discuss why Trump wants a Qatari plane and how to protest at a military parade.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss the new Pope, what the Papacy represents, and why we should care.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Nicholas Weaver to talk about corruption in cryptocurrency, the global supply chain, and American universities.
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Wherein Ben and guests discuss world leaders people won't stop revering for some reason. Lior Tepper brings updates from the trial of Netanyahu in Israel, Eve Gaumond and Alicia Wanless discuss Trump's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister, and Marichka Hlyten explains why there were Stalinist marchers in DC last weekend.
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Wherein Ben and Jonathan Rauch welcome Emma Petty Adams to discuss her organization, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and the influence of Mormon women in Republican politics.
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Wherein Ben and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss negotiation strategy in the Ukraine peace talks.
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Wherein Eve Gaumond discusses new AI experiments, Minna Ålander discusses European political analysis, and Ben encourages audience participation.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Kenya Wolff, an expert in early childhood education, to talk about child development, the costs of childcare, and the Toddler-In-Chief.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Jussi Toivanen to discuss Finnish language, culture, and politics.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Alan Elrod of the Pulaski Institution to discuss strengthening democratic society in rural areas vulnerable to populist influences.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome sociologist John Hawthorne to discuss his new book on how fear controls Christian universities and how to change that.
Check out the book here: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884565/the-fearless-christian-university/
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming Canadian elections.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Jonathan Rauch discuss protest movements, religion in government, and justifications for violence.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss different ways of reckoning with complicated history, from land acknowledgements to post-colonial governance.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Catholic journalist Michael Sean Winters to discuss the legacy of Pope Francis and what comes next for the Catholic Church.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Ruth Marcus and Marty Lederman to discuss recent judicial responses to Trump administration malevolence and where the federal courts go from here.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about the industry of people who talk about things. They discuss celebrity podcasts, the audience for newsletters, and whether to make fun of your own advertisers.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss Eve’s new venture into exploiting the working class.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Joel Woodward from the Collegium to discuss the return of the Gilded Age, complete with monopolies and robber barons.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, an expert on European security issues, to discuss Putin's strategic approach to NATO in the Trump era.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anastasiia Lapatina to discuss the current situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe more generally.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anna Bower to discuss various Trump administration litigation issues, including violations of court orders and more clarity on who runs DOGE.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher attempt improv comedy and discuss the economic impacts of tariffs.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss last weekend's protests, and the art they themselves have made to protest the Trump administration. They talk laser projections, YouTube videos, and cactus warfare.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Professor Amy Brunell, a social psychologist, to tell us about narcissism.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Alicia Wanless to tell us about her new book, The Information Animal, a historical and contemporary survey of the human information consumption.
Pre-order Alicia's book here.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Dr. Tony Volk, a developmental psychology researcher, to talk about the dynamics of bullying, on the playground and in the Oval Office.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Virginia Heffernan and Jonathan Rauch to talk about philosophy in the present moment and taking action one day at a time.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and Eve Gaumond discuss the craziest recent events in Canadian politics, including lies, plagiarism, and threats of secession. Anastasiia Lapatina joins in to discuss the last episodes of her podcast on US-Ukrainian relations.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Professor Lucy Jackson to tell us all about the Greek chorus, from its theatrical role to its philosophical significance.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss Trump administration influencers, puppets as graduation speakers, and maple syrup smuggling in the tariff era.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about podcasts, scandals, and the JFK assassination, and they read the newly released Houthi PC Small Group battle plans live on the show.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the Trump administration's leak of classified military information via group chat and welcome Anna Bower to tell us about her search for the administrator of DOGE. The as-yet-unnamed puppy was also there.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming elections in Canada. Also, Ben has a new puppy.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss Ben's new video, Holly's new podcast, and why big law firms are capitulating to Trump.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Frédéric Mérand, Canadian political scientist, to discuss Canada's potential integration with the EU.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the destruction of US soft power mechanisms, including Voice of America and the US Institute of Peace. Holly gives an update on South Sudan.
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Wherein Ben’s guest doesn’t show up so he takes questions from the audience on disinformation and Chuck Schumer's decision making—and ends up channeling the estimable Alicia Wanless.
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Thank you Kathleen Doxer, Christie, Cathy Wilson, Burch Craig, Gregory Speth, and many others for tuning into my live video with Anastasiia Lapatina! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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I met Nastia Panchenko several months ago when did a #SpecialMilitaryOperation in New York City at the Russian consulate there. She was among a number of young Ukrainians who came to the projection, after which she told me her remarkable story about coming to the United States alone as a teenager after the full-scale invasion. Now almost 18, she has been living in New York on her own, finishing high school and now attending college. We stayed in touch, and she recently wrote this essay to project on the Russian embassy as a kind of New Year’s greeting to the embassy staff—and to Russia more generally.
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I don’t know what the universe is of undecided swing voters who are also fans of 20th Century classical music. But for all eight of them out there, consider this video my personal appeal to you.
For everyone who needs an explanation, the piece is an homage to—or maybe a parody of—Aaron Copland’s famous 1942 piece, “Lincoln Portrait,” which features a spoken-word narrator reading famous quotations of Abraham Lincoln. Here’s a famous performance of it featuring James Earl Jones as the narrator:
Parody is actually the wrong word for this work, as the point is not to make fun of Copland. The point, of course, is the contrast between Trump and Lincoln.
I hope it reaches every Copland lover in every swing state who has still not decided how to vote.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is this guy. Make sure you watch his trick:
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In my last post, I urged people to subscribe to Yours Ukrainian, a new Substack by my friend—and employee—Anastasiia Lapatina:
In this conversation, Nastya and I talked about the project, as well as about her extraordinary, if very brief, career, which grew up alongside the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It’s a pretty amazing story, and she’s a great narrator of her own tale.
Nastya’s latest essay, about the murder of a far-right Ukrainian politician, is available here:
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Last week, I wrote this piece urging people to support the independent Ukrainian media organization, Svidomi. In that piece, I promised a podcast with the organization’s chief and founder, Anastasiia Bakulina. Our conversation got delayed by a few days for technical reasons. First, my recording software failed for reasons that may or may not be related to the worldwide cyber outage. Then, just as we were ready to try again, the power in Lviv went out. Apologies for the delay, but here is the conversation. As you’ll see, Nastya has a remarkable story to tell—one I find inspiring and which I cannot help but think about in relation to the history of Lawfare, which like Svidomi, began as a volunteer project of three friends and has developed into something much more professional and substantial.
And please do consider supporting Svidomi. As she describes in the conversation, Nastya has ambitious plans for the future of the organization. We can help make it a reality.
And once again, no, I have no financial relationship with Svidomi whatsoever.
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One year ago today, Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton University graduate student, journalist, and Middle East scholar was abducted in Baghdad by the Iranian-backed terrorist group, Khatib Hezbollah. Today, her sister Emma Tsurkov held a rally outside the Iraqi embassy and spoke about her sister in an effort to pressure Iraqi officials to push for her release—and in an effort to pressure American officials to lean on those Iraqi officials.
I spoke at length with Emma on the Lawfare Podcast later this afternoon—an episode that will run next week. I also shot this video of her speech, which I commend to you in the meantime.
I have never met Elizabeth in person, but we used to be Twitter buddies and corresponded sometimes on WhatsApp. She is a remarkable woman—as, it turns out, is her sister. Take a few minutes to listen to Emma making the case that American policymakers should care about Elizabeth’s situation at the hands of a group that also routine targets American forces in the region.
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Former President Trump filed his reply brief on his request before the Supreme Court for a stay of the D.C. Circuit’s mandate.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith lost no time filing his opposition to Trump’s request before the Supreme Court of a stay of the D.C. Circuit’s mandate. Here’s the government’s brief in its entirety.
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As expected, Donald Trump has gone to the Supreme Court seeking of stay of the D.C. Circuit’s issuance of its mandate to the district court on Trump’s claim of presidential immunity—which would let his Jan. 6 trial proceed. This is Trump’s brief.
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At long last, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals this week issued its opinion on presidential immunity in the Jan. 6 criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. The opinion is a 57-page per curiam by Judges Henderson, Pan, and Childs.
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This is the third episode of a three-part series, in which we bring you merits brief of Respondent Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court litigation over whether former President Donald Trump can be barred from the Colorado president ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Tomorrow, in a special bonu…
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This is the second episode of a three-part series, in which we bring you the Anderson respondents merits brief in Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court litigation over whether the former president can be barred from the Colorado president ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Later this evening, we will bring you the brief on the merits of t…
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Today, in the first episode of a three-part series, we bring you Donald Trump’s brief in Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court litigation over whether the former president can be barred from the Colorado president ballot because of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Tomorrow, we will bring you the respondent’s brief on the merits, and on Thursday, we’ll ru…
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We brought you reading the briefs. And we’re gonna bring you @NatSecJD reading the opinion. So it seemed a little goofy not to bring you the audio of the oral arguments. So here they are.
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Finishing our series on the briefing in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from criminal process in the Jan. 6 criminal case, we are bringing you today the amicus brief from American Oversight arguing that the D.C. Circuit lacks jurisdiction to consider Trump’s appeal. This presents a different argument for l…
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Continuing our series in the run-up to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals arguments Tuesday on Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from criminal process in the Jan. 6 criminal case, we are bringing you today the special counsel’s brief opposing Trump’s claim of immunity, which we brought you yesterday.
Tomorrow’s document will be the amicus brief o…
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Over the next three days, in the run-up to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals arguments on Donald Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from criminal process in the Jan. 6 criminal case, we are bringing you three critical briefs in the case. Today’s document is Trump’s opening brief in the case.
Tomorrow’s document will be the special counsel’s reply brief.
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Today's document is the Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion in Anderson v. Griswold, the challenge based on Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment to Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on the Colorado presidential ballot. We are presenting only the majority opinion, as that alone is 131. The document is dated December 19, 2023.
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Today's document is the government’s motion in limine filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The document is dated December 27, 2023 and is 20 pages long.
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Today's document is the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari Before Judgment filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The document is dated December 11, 2023 and is 14 pages long.
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Today's document is President Trump's Opposed Motion to Stay Proceeding Pending Appeal filed by the former President's attorneys in the District Court for the District of Columbia. This Motion requests a stay pending an appeal of Judge Chutkan's opinion from December 1, 2023 denying President Trump's Motion to Dismiss the indictment on grounds of Presid…
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In this opinion, Judge Chutkan rejects former President Trump’s motion to dismiss based on claimed presidential immunity from criminal charge.
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Welcome to a new “Read With Me” series performed by my friend, the elusive , who is producing for the podcast a series of audio versions of major documents in the Trump trials. These will include briefs and opinions in the ongoing Trump trials in Washington and South Florida.
The first episode is a reading of the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in Blassingame v.…
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If you want to follow along, here is the indictment:
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Anna Bower, Matt Tait and I read the Trump Mar-a-Lago indictment in neurotic detail. Listen if you dare.
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Chapter 8 of the January 6 Committee report covers the details of the attack itself. Specifically, it looks at the centrality of the Proud Boys in breaching the Capitol Police lines, the prevalence of weapons at the president’s speech on the Ellipse, and the evacuations of the vice president, the House and Senate members.
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Chapter 7 of the January 6 Committee report covers the activities of President Trump during the riot itself. How did he spend his time between the moment he left the Ellipse and when he finally, hours later, issued a video message calling on the rioters to go home?
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Chapter 6 of the January 6 Committee report covers the preparations by various far-right groups for Jan. 6, President Trump’s encouragement of their activities, and the White House’s own plans for the rally on the Ellipse.
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Chapter 5 of the January 6 Committee report covers President Trump’s attempt to get Vice President Pence to reject electors from states he preferred to have won, the John Eastman plot, and the conduct of Pence and his staff as Jan. 6 drew near.
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Chapter 4 of the January 6 Committee report covers President Trump’s attempt to corrupt the Justice Department, and then to decapitate the department and replace its leadership with a man who would do his bidding. It’s one of the weirdest episodes in the post-election period.
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Chapter 3 of the Jan. 6 Committee report is one of the most compelling and interesting chapters of the document. It raises the question: fraud or cosplay? My marked up copy of the chapter is attached.
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Chapter 2 of the Jan. 6 Committee report is, in my opinion, one of the most important chapters in the report. If Donald J. Trump is going to be indicted for conduct related to Jan. 6, the story told in this chapter will be central to the indictment. My marked up copy of it is attached.
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In today’s episode, we take a close look at the 11th Circuit’s opinion in the Mar-a-Lago case, which came down Thursday evening. The full document is available on Lawfare. The earlier 11th Circuit opinion granting a partial stay, referred to both in the opinion and in the podcast is on Lawfare as well, as is Judge Aileen Cannon’s underlying opinion can …
In this inaugural episode of “Read With Me,” we examine Merrick Garland’s Order No. 5559-2022, entitled “Appointment of John L. Smith as Special Counsel.” The order cites four statutes, which are discussed in the podcast: 28 USC § 509, 28 USC § 510, 28 USC § 515, and 28 USC § 533. It also cites, and we discuss, the Special Counsel regulations, codified at 28 CFR 600.4-10. And it cites this filing in the Mar-a-Lago litigation.
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