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The Same, but Worse

Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, Jerry Vinokurov

A podcast about politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and, ultimately, whether anything can be known and if so, how. Featuring Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, and Jerry Vinokurov.

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01:14:58

Election Mixdown

The Same, but Worse ·

2025/01/19

Andrew, Marshall, and Jerry get together for a Thanksgiving chat about the election.

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00:56:46

The Same, But Worse - Higher Ed

The Same, but Worse ·

2024/04/13

Marshall and Andrew got together to chat about Marshall's piece on the LPE blog about higher education: https://lpeproject.org/blog/should-higher-education-ratify-privilege-or-public-service/.

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01:59:38

Election Watch

The Same, but Worse ·

2023/05/28

Andrew and a couple of special guests go deep on the Turkish election. Sorry for the lack of content lately, it's been a busy spring for all of us.

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01:31:02

High Plains Billionaire Drifter

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/12/14

With Marshall sidelined by actual work, Andrew and Jerry discuss the recent FTX meltdown, Musk's acquisition of Twitter, and develop a typology of billionaires. Along the way we also discuss the repudiation of expertise as a relevant aspect of decision-making and establish which games are good for dads.

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02:07:30

Planet of Scams

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/09/20

We discuss the proliferation of scams of all kinds in late capitalism and the failure of regulators to come to grips with this problem. After Marshall departs, Andrew and Jerry talk about the shortcomings of localism and the most important thing in politics, owning your ideological enemies online.

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02:05:02

Abortions for None, and Miniature American Flags for All

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/09/20

Marshall, Andrew, and Jerry discuss the Dobbs decision, how we got here over the decades, and the ultimate failure of Democratic centrism to protect abortion rights. In the second half, we sketch an outline of the evolving American constitutional order and come up with an ingenious solution to the problem of global warming and world peace (must credit TSBW if implemented).

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01:22:24

On Elite Capture

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/06/15

Andrew, Marshall, and Jerry take a dive into Olufemi Taiwo's book "Elite Capture" and try to figure out what diagnostic as well as prescriptive lessons it can teach us.

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01:45:06

Podcasting as Allocation of Coordination Rights

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/04/29

We welcome to the podcast Sanjukta Paul to talk about her work in untangling the ball of twine that is modern antitrust. Come for the detailed history of trucking deregulation in the 90s, stay for the debate over how and to what end we should formulate social theories.

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01:30:19

The Vibes Doctors

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/04/19

In the absence of Marshall, Andrew and Jerry set about performing discourse surgery (spoiler: the patient died), trying to figure out why the vibes are fucked, and deploying our most sophisticated numerological tools to determine the most appropriate number of bullet points to have on your platform.

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02:10:10

Episode 5 - Postwar Sitcoms as Engines of Citizen...

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/03/11

We're joined by Mike Cheyne, a genuine doctor of suburban studies, to walk us through the way that postwar sitcoms functioned as loci of formation of ideas about civic participation and citizenship, and how the TV revolution of the 70s steered into the neoliberal turn.

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01:49:21

Episode 4 - Midwestern Populism, with Cory Haala

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/01/21

We welcome our first guest, Cory Haala, to talk about the populist tradition in the Midwest. We discuss its roots and legacy and whether any lessons for our present moment can be gleaned from it.

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01:20:52

Episode 3 - Second Time as Farce

The Same, but Worse ·

2022/01/07

With Marshall luxuriating in the Utah mountains (probably) and thus unavailable, Andrew and Jerry formulate a programmatic and try to dig out why it is that everything feels like a shittier retread all the time.

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00:52:23

Irrational Expectations - Part 2

The Same, but Worse ·

2021/12/10

Andrew and Jerry kibbitz about the Volcker shock, how to get from here to utopia, and whether solidarity is possible in the age of neoliberal atomization. Fun!

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01:12:27

Irrational Expectations

The Same, but Worse ·

2021/12/06

Marshall, Andrew, and Jerry become the dads of the entire economics profession. We discuss the mystificatory nature of economic ideology, cast a side-eye on expertise, and attempt to sow discord between Friedmannians and Hayekians.

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00:56:21

Got My Mind on My Mannheim and My Mannheim on My Mind

The Same, but Worse ·

2021/11/11

Got My Mind on My Mannheim and My Mannheim on My Mind by Andrew Hart, Marshall Steinbaum, Jerry Vinokurov

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00:53:15

This Is Fine - Episode 3.1

The Same, but Worse ·

2018/11/30

Not quite in time for a Thanksgiving argument with your Facebook uncle, but well ahead of schedule for a Christmas argument with the same, we're pleased to bring you a breakdown of the November elections.

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01:07:46

Episode 2.2 - The World Only Spins... Forward?

The Same, but Worse ·

2018/03/14

On this episode, we speak with writer and theater director Isaac Butler, who is the author, with Dan Kois, of a new oral history of Tony Kushner's "Angels In America," titled "The World Only Spins Forward." As always, we do a brief review of recent notable political events and then get to talking about what "Angels" accomplished and what it means today.

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01:20:57

Episode 2.1 - That Was The Year That Was

The Same, but Worse ·

2017/11/12

Welcome back, Finers! We've returned after a long, child-induced hiatus, just in time to fire up Season 2: Everything Is Still Fine, There's Nothing To Worry About, Really. On this episode, intrepid reporter Sam Thielman joins us for a retrospective on perhaps the dumbest year in American history; we discuss everything from Russian ad buys on Facebook to the Virginia governor's race, and make 100% ironclad predictions about how the following year is going to play out.

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00:53:58

This Is Fine - Episode 1.16 - Part 2

The Same, but Worse ·

2017/08/08

Part 2 of our conversation with Alex Wellerstein. This is a re-upload because the initial version was missing non-Alex tracks.

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00:58:57

Episode 1.16 - No Nukes is Good Nukes... Or Is It? -...

The Same, but Worse ·

2017/07/30

Welcome to Episode 1.16: No Nukes Is Good Nukes, or Is It? Thanks for listening, Finers; please subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and make sure to keep a copy of this episode in your local fallout shelter. In this two-parter, we get down into the details of nuclear weapons history with Alex Wellerstein of the Stevens Institute of Technology. We discuss various efforts intended to achieve nuclear disarmament, who has the authority for nuclear weapons use, what

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