Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi

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Listen to This Article: More Republicans Betray Causes They Supported Ten Minutes Ago 16.05.2024 3:44

The Great Bipartisan Constitution-shredding project of 2024 continues at breakneck speed This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: Substack Q&A: Natalie Wexler of "Minding The Gap" 16.05.2024 23:16

Should we teach more knowledge and less process? Why has knowledge become a bad word? Racket catches up with K-12 expert Natalie Wexler, author of "The Knowledge Gap" This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill 14.05.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It's all in Justin Trudeau's "Online Harms Bill," a true "threat to democracy" www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: Is Journalism Back? New York Times Editor Goes Ballistic on Biden, “Safe Space” Era 14.05.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country's most influential newspaper burst into the open this week, opening a door for a press comeback www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: The Atlantic Compares Walter Kirn to Donald Trump 09.05.2024 15:40

The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-level www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: A True Bipartisan Scandal 07.05.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news How out of control is our surveillance state? Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country's most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret Narrated by Jared Moore www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article - Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking 07.05.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking" www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article - It's Not Me, It's You: Blaming the Public's "Perception of the Economy" 29.04.2024 2:58

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your "perception" needs Narrated by Jared Moore www.racket.news

Listen to This Article - Substack Q&A: Quoth The Raven's "Fringe Finance" 29.04.2024 11:00

Making high finance accessible to ordinary readers, one financial "shit burger" at a time. www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: America's "Adults in the Room" Are Revolting 25.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news After betraying voters to lead a weekend wipeout in Congress for the war-and-spying crowd, Mike Johnson was granted honorary "adult" status by adoring pundits www.racket.news

Listen to This Article: A Saturday Massacre in Congress 25.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news On a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return

Listen to This Article: Mission Impossible: Democrats Make Trump a Martyr 22.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news ESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trials Narrated by Jared Moore

Listen to This Article: On Uri Berliner's Resignation from NPR 22.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Thoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editor Narrated by Jared Moore

Listen to This Article - Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness 14.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale. www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: On "The View," A Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade 08.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher? 01.04.2024 12:55

He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: Maintain Your Brain 01.04.2024 7:00

A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: Ronna McDaniel and MSNBC: Ultimate Schadenfreude? 01.04.2024 1:13

Surely this is the funniest media story of the year? www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign 01.04.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If "misinformation" reporter Brandy Zadrozny is the best hit artist NBC News has left on its roster, it might be time to shutter the network www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: America's Intellectual "Bloodbath" 28.03.2024 2:58

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it? www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism 26.03.2024 8:32

Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: "It's Not About Trump": American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort 26.03.2024 8:50

Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense. He has a scary message for Americans www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

Listen to This Article: Why Government is Always the Most Dangerous Source of Misinformation 25.03.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The government just begged the Supreme Court to let it fight "misinformation," but the plaintiffs were citizens suppressed for exposing official error. Why state lies are the most dangerous www. Racket.news

Listen to This Article: The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court 25.03.2024 3:00

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A brief recap of oral arguments in the long-awaited Supreme Court case on state-sponsored censorship

Listen to This Article: On Today’s Absurd New York Times Hit Piece 21.03.2024 8:08

Correcting the record after a desperate slam job on the Twitter Files, published just before oral arguments in a historic First Amendment case in the Supreme Court Narrated by Jared Moore www. Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe