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Oct 30, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Uh, Oh: New York Times, Washington Post Signal Post-Election Crackdown
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsElite anxiety is bleeding into public commentary, suggesting we have more than an election to worry about in the coming weeks.Narrated by Jared Moore
Oct 25, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Trump Camp: British Censorship Group to Be "Investigated From All Angles"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsBritain's Center for Countering Digital Hate will be at the "top of the list" of Trump investigatory targets, sources say after Disinformation Chronicle/Racket storyNarrated by Jared Moore
Oct 25, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Media Falls Below Congress in Trust Survey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsGallup's annual confidence survey shows 69% of Americans will not relieve themselves on a journalist in flamesNarrated by Jared Moore
Oct 21, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The University of California: At War With Its Own Proud Speech Tradition
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNew FOIA disclosures from UC Irvine show school faculty and administrators struggling with its own famed commitment to academic freedomNarrated by Jared Moore
Oct 21, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The Most Self-Sabotaging Political Ad Ever?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsJimmy Kimmel writer and Substacker Jacob Reed may have just elected Donald Trump by clowning men in the new Mount Everest of unintentional comedy
Oct 21, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The Hurricane Speech Panic is Here
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn a sequel to the pandemic panic, politicians and elite media are calling for a European-style speech clampdown, this time using the weather as an excuse.Narrated by Jared Moore
Oct 18, 2024 • 31min
America This Week, October 18, 2024: "For Kamala Harris on Fox, Hot Seat or Catbird Seat?"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsKamala Harris does a rare contentious interview, but seemingly not to win over Fox viewers. Why? Also, Walter and Matt discuss "The Catbird Seat," by James Thurber.
Oct 17, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Should America be the World's Policeman?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLee Fang and I opposed interventionism in a debate with Bret Stephens and Jamie Kirchick in New York this week. Technically we won, but it felt like a big lossNarrated by Jared Moore
Oct 17, 2024 • 3min
Listen to This Article - The Robin DiAngelo of Gender
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWarning: even zygotes can be Trump supporters.
Oct 11, 2024 • 31min
America This Week, October 11, 2024: "After the Edit"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDid something just get broken in a 60 Minutes interview that won't easily be fixed? Walter and Matt discuss. Plus, "After the Ball," by Leo Tolstoy
