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We talk to Malcolm Harris, a journalist and author of the new book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.

We discuss why Palo Alto is so powerful and so central to the American Empire, despite its seeming provincialism, and why the concept of The Californian Ideology is bogus. Also we find out where James Franco found “inspiration” for his Palo Alto: Stories book.

— Evgenia and Yasha

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