Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal returns to the pod in celebration of the release of the English translation of his book, Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization. We pick up where we left off last time, beginning with the role of the journalist, especially in this new vaccine-starved world, meander into Facebook's many failings, and then take a final, chilling turn to the state of the American empire post-Trump.

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On the agenda:

* Journalists, vaccines, and the "toilet paper dilemma" [10:27]

* Facebook, Silicon Valley, and Freedom of Speech [24:10]

* "The West Crumbled in the Trump Years" [39:16]

* When the world wasn't watching... [47:15]

* "There is no organizing idea for an America-centric world any more." [54:59]

* Nationalism vs. populism [1:00:37]

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