The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.

Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and the political book The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore from Counterpoint Press. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of Writing & Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.

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