Progressive politics as Hawking radiation (LET026)

Black holes. They’re everywhere. Especially Washington. Perhaps this is why so many good ideas go there never to return: universal health care, Net Neutrality, higher minimum wage, free public college, and so on. And now we have an actual picture of a black hole. Having recently lost a previous episode to the ether, Amos and Ex approach the event horizon of the future by chatting about campaign polling, the ecosystem under our feet, Greil Marcus, and the sucking hole that is the American university.