Tyrants
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[1]Our first episode recorded in 2011 finds Jesse in Iraq once again [2] and our minds on protest and revolution. Enjoy! Miscellaneous links discussed: David Cay Johnston on Public Workers' Pensions [3] Giddens on Gaddafi [4] Jonathan Haidt on liberal bias [5] (This is “the psychology guy” we mention in the first minute, but decide not to talk about.) Deposed Despot Survivor [6] “What’s Gene Simmons done now?” [7] This podcast is now old enough to drink. Download episode 21! [8] [1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2011/02/album-art-ep21.png [2] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/2010/06/03/live-from-kurdistan/ [3] http://tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/UBEN-8EDJYS?OpenDocument [4] http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/perils-of-public-intellectualizing/32610 [5] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html [6] http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/40199760426176512 [7] http://twitter.com/#!/schussman/status/40622543362588673 [8] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/socimprov21.mp3
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