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Dr John Fliter, author of U.S. vs. Darby Lumber Co.: The Triumph of Fair Labor Standards (University Press of Kansas, 2025), is our guest today. The interview covers the history of the struggle for fair labor standards in the US, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the state of labor today.

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This is my talk from a recent visit to Milwaukee to view Maurin documents at Marquette University. It was part of a Catholic Worker roundtable with Lincoln Rice. It represents my initial thoughts on how Maurin’s life, in some ways, is a microcosm of modern dislocation, not any extensive research on Maurin, which is ongoing. From doing a bit more, I think the reason why Maurin moved around so much while he was a teacher is that he was having a hard time with teaching (perhaps not good at teaching children and young people), and he moved around trying to find a level or place where his approach was successful.

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Stephen Paff, host of Democracy Demythologized and author of the Ethno-Data blog joined Laurie for a conversation about AI. This is a short segment of a longer conversation and discussion with patrons of the Maurin Academy.

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Ethno-Data: https://ethno-data.com

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Pastor Caleb Campbell, Desert Springs Bible Church, has published a new book, Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor, with Blackstone Publishing. It is available in paperback, Kindle and Audible editions. https://www.amazon.com/Disarming-Leviathan-Christian-Nationalist-Neighbor/dp/B0DB2NV6F7

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We finish up the discussion of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel Being There with “Chauncey Gardiner” being launched into the stratosphere of American power while being an acknowledged complete unknown on both sides of the Cold War. What does this satirical novel have to say about our lack of common sense?

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People are really falling for Chance … er, Chauncey in Chapter 5 of Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There.

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We continue with our discussion of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, Being There, at the point where “Chauncey Gardiner,” mistaken for a wealthy and handsome businessman, meets the President of the United States and the American press–and a desperate heiress.

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We continue with our discussion of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, Being There, at the point where “Chauncey Gardiner” meets EE by accident and gets mistaken for a wealthy and handsome businessman.

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Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There is a satirical story about American democracy and the effects of electronic media on the American mind. This video covers the first two chapters of the novel, which was made into a movie starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine.

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