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Episode 56: What's the Matter With Europe?
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71 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2021
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Berlin-based journalist Elisabeth Zerofsky joins Shadi and Damir to talk about how Europeans are coping with the pandemic. What's it like living under an actual lockdown? Is Brexit vindicated? Does Europe now feel America envy? And would Damir make an effective demagogue? The answers to all these questions and more, answered in just over an hour. Required Reading: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, by Svetlana Alexievech (Penguin) "The Right-Wing Pundit ‘Hashtag Triggering’ France," by Elisabeth Zerofsky (The New York Times) Elisabeth's New Yorker archive "Why is Everything Liberal?" by Richard Hanania (Substack) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe
Released:
Apr 24, 2021
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 3: Conspiracy Theories, Flailing Gatekeepers, and Democratic Decay: Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide kicks off a frenzy of conspiracy theories in the media—and prompts Shadi and Damir to talk through whether we are living through a healthy democratic correction, or something much darker. Articles mentioned in the po by Wisdom of Crowds