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Episode 2838: Jeff Boyd on Chicago, Charles Dickens and Curtis Mayfield https://keenon.substack.com/p/hard-times-again?utm_source=youtube

“If we don’t fight, then what are we doing?” — Jeff Boyd How do you write fiction about contemporary America when reality itself is stranger than fiction? Where “alternative facts” is policy and “truth” has been nationalized? Jeff Boyd sees fiction as refuge. His new novel Hard Times — named…

“Had another nation done this, we would regard this as an act of war.” — Arthur Levine, President of Brandeis University Forget Iran for a moment. Brandeis President Arthur Levine on Trump’s treatment of American universities: “Had another nation done this, we would regard this as an act of war.”…

“You would not want to be me.” — Elon Musk Yesterday I argued Dario Amodei is the most interesting man in America because he acts like a human being in public. Elon Musk is the opposite. He has the balls but what’s missing is the human-being. Or perhaps he’s all-too-human,…