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Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Benefits of Being Extremely Worried About the Civil War

There are scary instances of plots to kidnap the governor. There were also plots to take down the New York City subways, which had a couple mistrials. The threats of murder in certain zip codes in big cities are so much less than the threat of Proud Boys. I think media has a big role to play playing agitating us and making us fearful.

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