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In this dispatch, talking about Irish-American history, Bernadette Devlin, the horrific Christchurch Mosque massacre, and why it’s good to yell at Chelsea Clinton.

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Music from Yung Chomsky and Cole James Cash

For this week’s interview, we have Heidi Matthews, Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She talk with Ben about academic meritocracy, the pitfalls of liberal legal theory, why you should be a prison abolitionist, and the problem of liberal hegemony in feminism.

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Music by Isolee, Yung Chomsky, and Cole James Cash.

Here’s this week’s dispatch! Talking about Biden’s crime bill speech and Robert Francis O’Rourke kickflips into the mosh pit of 2020.

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We have another great guest (and podcast OG), Katie Halper! We talk about her latest article in Jacobin about radical Jewish politics and Bernie Sanders, as well as Ilhan Omar, Megan McCain, and Ben reveals his online nemesis, Dane Weeks.

Also: How prioritizing feelings is good for relationships but bad for politics.

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Just Ben on this dispatch episode. Talking about Bernie’s excellent speech in Brooklyn, Amazon’s Seattle crisis, and a special edition of Good For The Jews.

Also: Ben looks at Red Vienna, the Green New Deal, and reparations.

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Today’s special guest is Yasmin Nair, a great writer based in Chicago. We talk about the non-profit industrial complex, why polyamory does not make you a radical, and the ballad of Jussie Smollet.

Also: Content warnings matter and Greg Gutfeld gives Juan Williams a lesson on the “b word”.

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A big day for the presidential campaign, as Bernie Sanders announces. Ben talks the good and bad, lying about donating money (who hasn’t), and attempts to make the case for a united front.

Also: Elizabeth Warren proposes an excellent first step towards universal childcare.

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Another dispatch, this time talking about Ilhan Omar, tropes, and sucking it up and sticking with your people.

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Today’s special guest is the great Jonathan Daniel Brown from Struggle Session! We talk about video games, Jewish identity, media politics, and give each other compliments. A good one!

Also: Trump shouts out socialism and we should be flattered.

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Music: “Sleestak” by Fuzz, “John Brown” by Papercuts, and “Audio Boxing” by Isotope 217.

The “Fuck You Clap” that never was, the Green New Deal, and why Davos was bad, but now its kind of good?

Also: Billionaires are bad, even for the billionaire.

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Music: “Sleestak” by Fuzz, “Let It All Go” by Jay Reatard, “Say Hello” by Fuzz, “Raised Eyebrowd” by The Feelies, “All Eyez on Me (Instrumental)” by Tupac