America This Week (Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn)

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Listen now | Walter and Matt discuss the weirdness of Ukraine war reporting, the Discord leaker, and the blurring line between journalist and spy

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"ENEMY DUMB, EVIL" : Walter and Matt discuss Tucker Carlson's exit and the successful homogenization of the media landscape

Take this Internet and shove it! Walter and Matt discuss the lack of anti-war voices, give up on ever repairing mainstream media, and endorse setting off for the digital forest, podcasts

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On the Department of Homeland Security's creepy community-snitch role-playing exercise, plus Matt and Walter discuss "The Library of Babel" in a new feature

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Listen now | Walter and Matt discuss our love for communal panic, the Titan sub, Lab Leak and a new push against debate, the potential for billionaire grappling on TV, and Ray Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven"

Walter and Matt avoid the Russia bait-bucket, discuss the Dem’s pathologizing of dissent, and read Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"

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Walter and Matt on Bill Maher, "Strikeforce Suck," and the new era of comedy as narrative-enforcement. Also, "The Lottery of Babylon," by Jose Luis Borges

Walter and Matt take on White House journalism instructions, Ukraine's warning to "propagandists" abroad, jarring JFK assassination news, and Fritz Leiber's "Coming Attraction"

Walter and Matt on the insta-punishment system unveiled in the Russell Brand case, Britain's increasing role as a testing ground for speech-suppression techques, and Alexander Pushkin's "The Shot." More at www.racket.news

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On the House hearing, giving up on Democrats, and “Before the Law” by Kafka

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Walter and Matt talk Colorado, the Transition Integrity Project, and Kurt Vonnegut's unpublished gem, "FUBAR"

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Walter and Matt return from the holidays to discuss Claudine Gay's resignation, Trump's ballot battle, and Anton Chekhov's, "The Lady with the Dog" www.racket.news

Walter and Matt explore the last throes of pre-election madness, recap the DeSantis-Haley unlikability Olympics, and review "The Most Dangerous Game." www.Racket.news

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The mania over the Tucker Carlson interview explored in an early release of America This Week. Also, "The Destruction of Kreshev," by the incomparable I.B. Singer

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Matt and Walter discuss the Russia “insta-threat” and review “Sonny’s Blues”

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Walter and Matt sound the alarm on the unexpectedly horrifying TikTok bill, and laugh over Vladimir Voinovich’s classic Samizdat satire, “A Circle of Friends.”

Link to New York Times editorial: “It Turns Out the Deep State is Actually Kind of Awesome.” See also subsequent contest content.

Link to Starship Troopers commercial, “Service Guarantees Citizenship,” with “Bug Meteor” scene.

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You can't stick your nose up at the world if it's gone. Walter and Matt relive the Ronna McDaniel chorus, condemn absolutely all scissors imagery, and read Gogol's "The Nose."

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If CNN spends an hour interviewing Robert F. Kennedy and doesn’t hear his answers, did it happen? Walter and Matt discuss. Plus “The Nine Billion Names of God.”

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Matt and Walter dive into NPR editor Uri Berliner's comments, then review some of the most curious NPR stories of late. Also: "Jackals and Arabs" by Franz Kafka

What does the "Right to Knowledge" mean, and why is it so dangerous? Walter and Matt ponder the less funny side of the Katherine Maher story. Plus, "To Build a Fire," by Jack London

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Walter and Matt finally talk about a long-avoided subject. Plus, John Updike's "A&P"

Walter and Matt discuss the New York Times and Canada's Online Harms Act. Plus, "The Story-Teller," by Saki.

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A wild backlash against a poll underscores the neverending cycle of mad delusions that American pop culture has become. Plus, Heinrich Böll's my-how-relevant "Christmas Not Just Once a Year."

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Now that jailing political opponents is a norm, does America think freedom is overrated, and authority be celebrated? Also, Walter and Matt discuss Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor”

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Matt and Walter play a new election preparedness role-playing game produced by the CIA's venture capital arm (Racket story to come), and discuss Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace"

Walter and Matt discuss Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden, and the slow death of objective reality. Plus, "The Door," by E.B. White

In this episode of America This Week, Walter and Matt discuss the release of Julian Assange and the implications for press freedom. Plus, Anton Chekhov's "The Bet".

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Walter and I scramble to unwrap the collapse of one presidential campaign, and the fact-suppressing coronation of another. Also, "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allan Poe

Just like porn sites, political parties quickly identify your thing and send you to the right room. Also, "The Overcoat," by Nikolai Gogol

An update on a story that mainstream outlets seem to have decided not to touch, about Air Marshals being assigned to conduct surveillance on Tulsi Gabbard under the Quiet Skies program

How close did Swami Walter Kirn come to predicting coverage of the Tim Walz-a-ganza?

Sir Keir Starmer goes full Minority Report; White House Misinformation Kids caught talking shop. Plus, "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson

Upside-down world keeps spinning as the blues campaign on a border wall. Also, a fascinating inspiration for a pop culture classic: "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz

Walter calls a scandal. Russiagate is exhumed again. Walter explains weasels, both the human and actual kind. Also, "Sredni Vashtar," by Saki.

Remembering 9/11, the architects of the War on Terror, and the state of emergency just renewed this week. Plus, "Goodbye, My Brother" by John Cheever

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combine to move us several steps closer to Walter's prediction of the first drone assassination for a tweet. Plus, "The Blood of the Martyrs," by Stephen Vincent Benét

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Elite America responded with sympathy to the revelations of Hurricane Katrina. Is it the same this time? Also, "My First Goose," by Isaac Babel

Did something just get broken in a 60 Minutes interview that won't easily be fixed? Walter and Matt discuss. Plus, "After the Ball," by Leo Tolstoy

Kamala Harris does a rare contentious interview, but seemingly not to win over Fox viewers. Why? Also, Walter and Matt discuss "The Catbird Seat," by James Thurber.

The New York Times teams with David Brock's Media Matters to smash records for editorial mendacity. Plus, Mark Twain's great take on fraud, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

A trial balloon floats presidential pardons no one asked for, no one knows anything about, and no one needs, but will be done anyway. Plus, the "Masque of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe

The suspect in the United Health CEO murder becomes a "folk hero" through preposterous means. Also, "The Elephant" by Slawomir Mrozek

Pundits throw a fit over a settlement, and the legend of Luigi Mangione expands. Plus, "Damn!" by Charles Portis

Los Angeles is in flames, and California's leaders seem helpless, unmasking a generation of public investment in non-essential services. Also, "On Guard," by Evelyn Waugh

A historically peculiar presidency ends on an oddly half-assed note. Plus, the chilling "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta," by Kate Braverman

Undoing the Great American Cluster$&%k? Also, “Alyosha the Pot” by Lev Tolstoy

Walter attends the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hearings. We discuss highlights and (mostly) lowlights. Also, "Dark-Brown Dog," by Stephen Crane

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed. Plus, "Angel Fire," by our own Walter Kirn

With video appearances by Jon Stewart, Jen Psaki, an EPA official caught on tape, and a 990 form or two. Which set of lawbreakers is ahead? Plus, "The Fatalist," by Mikhail Lermontov

Faced with collapse, the Luftreich - the international elite consensus - fights back. Also, "The Main Death,' by Dashiell Hammett

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Thank you Racket Readers for joining Walter and Matt for a live edition of America This Week. See you next week!

The JFK Files don't unmask a killer, but they do reveal a spy state out of control. Plus, "The Golden Bird," by the Brothers Grimm

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Has NPR turned over a new leaf? What really happened with Chatgate? Matt and Walter discuss all this, the Alien Enemies Act, and Flannery O'Connor's classic, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

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Left and right populism almost came together many times to oppose globalization. Now that Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" are here, minds have changed. Why? Also "The Pedestrian," by Ray Bradbury

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