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“That’s not the America that I believed in and that I chose to merge my fate with.” — David Frum on Trump’s predatory foreign policy What does it mean to be an American? It’s a slippery question — especially for those of us born outside the United States. Take, for…

Episode 2938: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay https://keenon.substack.com/p/save-san-franciscos-soul?utm_source=youtube

“The same creative and political forces that gave rise to [San Francisco’s] boom nearly engineered its collapse.” — Jonathan Weber In Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the quintessential San Francisco movie, the villain points to an old painting of the city and tells Jimmy Stewart that San Francisco has changed. The real city…

Episode 2937: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal https://keenon.substack.com/p/brooklyn-al-primo-posto?utm_source=youtube

“I never knew, and I was a bright kid. I didn’t know who the mayor of New York was, but I could tell you the names of all the mafia guys on the corner.” — Vincent Coppola So we finally found a Coppola for the show. No, not Francis Ford.…