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[S12 E46] Persuasion vs. Polarization
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses the massive strike of Canadian public employees; economics of the unemployed; business owners,executives and lawyers dominate US state legislatures; and how rising interest rates push the most vulnerable to the margins of US capitalism. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Anand Giridharadas on his new book, The Persuaders.
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About our Guest: ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of the international best-seller Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Time, and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Twitter: @AnandWrites
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS:
1. 5.8 millions of unemployed: tcf.org/conten...
www.cbpp.org/r...
2. Massachusetts vote: www.bostonglob...
3. Gov Tate Reeves of Mississippi: itep.org/state...
4. US state legislatures: qz.com/a-third...
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