Chicago Way w/John Kass: When legal blows are enough to threaten the body politic

The Chicago Way

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/12/23): This week, John Kass and Jeff Carlin are joined by the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago Charles Lipson with a look at the national issues facing the body politic, including Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg deciding to indict former President Donald Trump, progressives […]

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0:00.0	There's many aspects to my friend Charles Lipson's career in life.
0:05.6	He's a wit, he's a literary man, he's a man of letters, he's Professor Emeritus of
0:15.1	the University of Chicago, Peter B. Ritzman-Cher.
0:20.0	He's also writer and thinker of deep thoughts that are important to think like how do we save
0:28.6	the Republic?
0:30.7	How can we save the Republic as our political leaders produce, I don't know, idiocy?
0:37.5	This is the best way to save him.
0:42.8	Because why is he like this?
0:45.7	Because he's a teacher.
0:47.5	Because at the bottom Charles Lipson is a teacher.
0:51.7	He likes to teach young people.
0:56.0	I never had him as a teacher, but he's a friend of mine and I just imagine what he'd
1:00.7	have been like.
1:02.7	And these are sessions that we have together with him on the Chicago way.
1:08.2	It reminds me of what it was like when you could talk to your professors and differ with
1:14.3	them and discuss them, discuss things with them.
1:19.5	We are on the Chicago way podcast on WGN Plus.
1:24.0	So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude
1:31.0	to power.
1:32.5	And it is, it's the Chicago way, absolutely.
1:35.6	Because the Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.
1:41.2	It's the Chicago way.
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