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A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.

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This month's bonus episode is the latest entry in our Pundit Portraits series: a brief dissection of the work of Peggy Noonan, a Reagan speechwriter turned opinion page mainstay and occasional conspiracy theorist. Subscribe to listen at patreon.com/ifbookspod

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good god no

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they listened to our bonus ep

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This month's bonus episode is about the media coverage of the protests at Columbia, from the crazed ranting of the New York Post to the dull whining of The Atlantic. With a little cameo from Eric Adams. Subscribe on Patreon:

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Episode 29: Going Infinite When Michael Lewis looked at Sam Bankman Fried, he saw a young, enigmatic genius who was remaking the financial world. A federal jury strongly disagreed.

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This month's bonus episode is about the fight over bail reform in New York: how the NYPD, led by their dumbest soldier Eric Adams, runs an ongoing PR campaign to shape the media narrative about crime in NYC. Subscribe on Patreon:

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many people are saying this, and you’re all welcome

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This month’s bonus episode is an IBCK first: we’re covering a good book! We talk about Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger, and the steady decline of Naomi Wolf into madness.

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Episode 27: Lean In In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg delivered a simple message to women: you are faced with tremendous structural hurdles in the workplace, but you can overcome them and get rich by illegally selling user data and so forth.

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This month's bonus episode is DEI Part 2: The Harvard Wars. The story of how a series of bad faith media cycles brought us from some student protests to Congressional testimony, a plagiarism scandal, and a billionaire’s extended meltdown.

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Episode 26: The Better Angels of Our Nature, part 1 Have human societies become less violent due to a complex mixture of economic development, medical advancement and political structures? Or did some European guys write some books saying murder was bad?

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This month's bonus episode is about workplace DEI. In the war between disingenuous corporate PR and racist right-wing grievance, who will triumph?

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Episode 25: The Art of the Deal In the 1980s, Donald Trump was developing his resume for the presidency the most American way possible: by acquiring junk bonds and being a slumlord.

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we love our fans but you all have to stop sending us the article about Robert Kiyosaki being in a billion dollars of debt

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Episode 24: The Identity Trap Think the American left doesn't pose an urgent threat to democracy? Yascha Mounk is ready to change your mind using a handful of cherry picked anecdotes.

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This month's bonus episode is the first in our Pundit Portraits series, where we'll be exploring the little brains of America's dumbest pundits. First off: Kathleen Parker and Chris Cillizza.

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Episode 22: The 48 Laws of Power. In 1998, a struggling screenwriter finally hit the big time by telling men what they wanted to hear: The world is cruel, appearance is everything and it’s OK to be a sociopath.

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Our latest bonus episode digs into the media panic about "organized retail crime." We finally answer the question: has there been a massive explosion in expansive criminal shoplifting operations, or is a weird little lobbying organization lying to you? Subscribe to find out!

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we're back with more hits

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Episode 21: San Fransicko All of the research *seems* to indicate that homelessness is driven by housing prices. Only one rogue analyst is willing to ask the question: what if the real issue is that we're not mean enough to homeless people?

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what if books...could kill?

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