IMBW Audio: Reading Protester Statements and Trump Trial Transcripts is a Bad Way to Spend a Week

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IMBW Audio: Reading Protester Statements and Trump Trial Transcripts is a Bad Way to Spend a Week

Plus: What was Tammany Hall besides one line in your 8th grade civics textbook?

Jeff Maurer

Apr 28, 2024

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We're All Noticing the Hypocrisy, Right?

Jeff Maurer

Apr 26

We're All Noticing the Hypocrisy, Right?

Campus protests have sparked a culture war flare up, which are not typically America’s best moments. Culture war fights are the trash TV of politics: They’re pulpy and inane, and they cut our collective IQ roughly in half. They typically end like an episode of

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Remembering the Weather Underground, a Columbia Protest Movement Gone Maximally Wrong

Jeff Maurer

Apr 24

Remembering the Weather Underground, a Columbia Protest Movement Gone Maximally Wrong

***Almost everything in this article comes from Bryan Burrough’s excellent book: “Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence”. In addition to the Weather Underground, the book covers groups including the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican separatist group FALN, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. I highly recommend it.

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