Breaking Free of the Establishment and Elite with Grace Blakeley and Evelyn Quartz

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Grace Blakeley (author and staff writer at Tribune Magazine) and Evelyn Quartz (writer and communications expert), for a wide-ranging conversation about how political and economic elites have shaped a system that works for them, and leaves everyone else behind. They unpack how power protects itself, why traditional institutions have lost public trust, and what it would mean to build a future that’s actually democratic and accountable. Plus, the limits of centrist narratives, how media and messaging uphold the status quo, and why a better path forward requires confronting the hard truths we’re often encouraged to ignore. For more from Grace Blakeley, read her latest book, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom (don’t miss my interview with Grace about Vulture Capitalism) subscribe to her Substack newsletter, and keep up with her writings at Tribune Magazine. For more from Evelyn Quartz, subscribe to her Substack Newsletter, where she writes about the failure of elite politics and the search for something more honest. For more from Reed Galen subscribe to The Home Front, check out Sez Us for a new social media platform for sane people, and if you want to personally join the fight to save our nation’s democracy, visit JoinTheUnion.us and sign up today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, today's conversation is going to take us in a new
0:04.4	direction. And I think that's what we need more of. I hope that when you come to the home front,
0:08.9	you're being challenged in the things that you've thought about, given opportunities to think
0:13.2	about things in a new way, and start to join the community of those of us that know that things
0:17.2	can and should and must be better as we move into the future. And now, on with the show.
0:23.2	Welcome back to the Homefront. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by Grace Blakely,
0:28.8	a staff writer at Tribune Magazine, and author of several books, including her latest,
0:32.8	Vulture Capitalism, Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom, which is
0:37.1	available wherever fine books are found. She also writes regularly on her Substack News capitalism, corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom, which is available
0:37.5	wherever fine books are found. She also writes regularly on her substack newsletter. You can find my
0:43.1	earlier conversation with Grace about her book in the show notes. Today, she's coming to us from the
0:47.9	UK. Grace, welcome back. Hey, thanks for having me again. It's so great to be here. I'm also joined by
0:53.9	Evelyn Quartz.
0:54.6	Evelyn is a Capitol Hill staffer and communications expert and author of her own
0:59.0	substack newsletter where she writes about the failure of elite politics and the search for
1:03.0	something more honest.
1:04.3	She's coming to us from the great state of Oregon.
1:06.5	Evelyn, welcome back.
1:08.0	Hi, Reid.
1:08.5	Hi, hi, Grace.
1:08.8	Thanks for happening me.
1:09.8	All right.
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