Apple's shuffle mode, Leicester City, water, the number 4, butterflies, starting a business, and Leeeeroy Jenkins! With the help of gamer, Twitch streamer, and physics knower Sinan Kose, these and more will be used to illuminate the interplay of randomness and politics. We concentrate particularly on intentional political uses of randomness (such as sortition) and why redressing bad luck isn't a good starting point for either ideology or policy.  

 

With a Five Minute Focus this week about the largest political protest ever held.  

 

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Luck Egalitarianism  

 

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Activist Tactics in Hong Kong  

 

Coin flips in the Democrat Iowa Primary  

 

Protests in India  

 

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