Why does it seem there's so much at stake in politics, when neither left, nor right, nor centre appears capable of changing anything about people's lives? Benjamin Studebaker joins James and David to discuss the left-wing case for conscription, the Republican Party primary field, the return of COVID mask mandates, the political outlook of Gen Z, and his new theoretical book on American politics: The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut.
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