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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Tory Sensation and the Human Experience

There's obviously a kind of there's there's so many libidinal satisfactions on offer on the right. Conservatives have no compunction about about working with that material in a really simplistic way to give people a panacea for what is like the primordial pain of being thrust into the world in a family. And leftist political movements, of course, work with that material too. But we should hope that they do so with a lot more care and with with a real suspicion of the ways in which it can be mobilized for violence, for fascism, for hatred of the other. Yeah. I think maybe before we started recording that something that Matt Sippman, my cohost often says

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