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On the last Angry Planet of 2025, novelist and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay returns to reflect on a year of spectacle and cruelty.
Between the Pentagon’s boat strikes and the administration’s constant barrage of grotesque memes, it feels like America is a crueler and cruder place. For better and worse, the Presidency sets a moral standard for the country and Trump has lowered that standard. Klay wrote about all this in a piece at The New York Times and he’s here with us today to talk through it.
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
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On the last Angry Planet of 2025, novelist and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay returns to reflect on a year of spectacle and cruelty.
Between the Pentagon’s boat strikes and the administration’s constant barrage of grotesque memes, it feels like America is a crueler and cruder place. For better and worse, the Presidency sets a moral standard for the country and Trump has lowered that standard. Klay wrote about all this in a piece at The New York Times and he’s here with us today to talk through it.
What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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