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01:23:45

Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes

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2022/02/25

Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege. https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/

01:15:37

On prison education / Daniel Fernandez

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2022/02/23

Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez

01:25:16

Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson

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2022/02/23

Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html

01:23:58

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

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2022/02/10

Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

01:21:06

Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber

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2022/02/08

Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/

01:08:32

Dirty energy politics in Ohio / Nathanael Johnson

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2022/02/07

Writer Nathanael Johnson on his report "How a $60 million bribery scandal helped Ohio pass the ‘worst energy policy in the country’" for Grist. https://grist.org/politics/how-a-60-million-bribery-scandal-helped-ohio-pass-the-worst-energy-policy-in-the-country/

01:25:00

The state, the unhoused and performative productivity...

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2022/02/03

Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war. https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/

01:22:03

Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne...

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2022/02/01

Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

01:17:57

Neoliberalism and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally /...

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2022/01/31

Historian Catherine McNicol Stock on her article “Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism" for OSU Origins. https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/read/south-dakota-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-neoliberalism

01:22:18

Vaccine apartheid politics / Kevin Klyman

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2022/01/27

Kevin Klyman on his article "Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire" for Jacobin, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues to try to spread positivity. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war

01:27:32

Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar

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2022/01/26

Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble. https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them

01:16:42

When the rich take space / Corey Pein

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2022/01/24

Writer Corey Pein on his article "Dawn of the Space Lords" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dawn-of-the-space-lords-pein

01:27:00

Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello

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2022/01/20

Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks. https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/14/our-activism-wont-stop-the-oyan-movement-recounts-the-january-protests-in-kazakhstan/

01:20:30

Psychedelic inequality / Roberto Lovato

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2022/01/19

Writer Roberto Lovato on his article "The Gentrification of Consciousness" for Alta Journal. https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/

01:21:40

Today's militia movement / Amy Cooter

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2022/01/18

Sociologist Amy Cooter on her article "Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism" for Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/citizen-militias-in-the-u-s-are-moving-toward-more-violent-extremism/

01:31:37

Carbon dominance / Jeff Nesbit

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2022/01/12

Jeff Nesbit on his article "How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning," co-written with Naomi Oreskes for Covering Climate Now / Gizmodo, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen surrenders to his happy place. https://gizmodo.com/how-big-oil-rigs-the-system-to-keep-winning-1848180128

01:17:45

Student loan debt numbers don't add up / John R. Brooks

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2022/01/11

Law scholar John R. Brooks on his article "The Big Student Loan Lie" for The American Prospect. https://prospect.org/education/big-student-loan-lie/

01:18:51

Radical hope and apocalyptic cynicism / Henry Giroux

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2022/01/10

Cultural critic Henry Giroux on his article "Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year" for Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/amid-apocalyptic-cynicism-lets-embrace-radical-hope-in-the-new-year/

01:25:21

Climate change's mirror worlds / Aaron Vansintjan

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2022/01/05

Writer Aaron Vansintjan on his essay "Faith in a frail world" for Uneven Earth, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's forbidden words for this year are all numbers. http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/faith-in-a-frail-world/

01:17:46

Sanctions are a weapon / Nicholas Mulder

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2022/01/04

Historian Nicholas Mulder on his book "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" from Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapon

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