Welcome everyone to another regularly scheduled rerun. I've been working on a couple of upcoming

episodes this week that focus on a couple of widespread emotions that are playing an outsized

role in our current politics and culture. So when I look back in the archives for a rerun episode,

I found this old one focusing on a different emotion, but I thought it might act as a good lead in.

So today we're going to hear an episode from August of last year with a focus on anger.

As for members, they got a new bonus episode in their feed today, and I'm pretty excited about it.

You may have heard the idea that there are no original ideas under the sun, but this is one of

those rare cases where I think I may have had an original idea that attempts to explain a couple

of seemingly unrelated aspects of society and gives me at least some hope for the future of much

greater political involvement from average citizens than we've been used to over the past several

decades. Plus, I also take a stab at explaining why it is that the conservative movement was able

to sustain a multi-decade campaign to take over the Supreme Court, and similarly why that actually

gives me some hope for the future. So to hear all of that and for access to our past and future

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Now welcome to the award winning best of a left podcast with clips today from this is hell ideas

from the cbc, the tomharm program, pbs front line, and a tetdoc.

You write that there is much dispute about the causes of this global disorder. We are

speaking with pankaj mishra. He is the author of the new book age of anger, a history of the present.

You write there is much dispute about the causes of this global disorder. Many observers have

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