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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Daniel Kehlmann joins to discuss The Director, his novel reimagining the life of G.W. Pabst—a brilliant German filmmaker who escaped the Nazis, only to voluntarily return. Kehlmann grapples with how much human suffering we’re willing to accept as the cost of art. Later, Ben Wittes of Lawfare weighs in on the often exasperating logic behind international laws governing conflict. Plus, Republicans can either oppose Trump or stay in office—but not both.
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mike. And on Tuesday, I'm doing a Substack Live with Mark Oppenheimer. |
0:05.0 | Now, what a Substack live is, you go on Substack and I invite you to come, |
0:09.8 | Mikepescat.substack.com, and you sign up for Substack, sign up for my substack, |
0:14.7 | and then you watch me talk live with someone. You know, upon having said it out loud, I think I overestimated how complex it was and how |
0:22.5 | much explication it needed. But maybe I need to explain or at least sell you on Mark. If you've |
0:27.1 | heard him once, I need no sell. But executive editor of Arc, which is a magazine of religion, |
0:33.1 | politics, etc. He was on to talk about gate crashers, which is the history of Jews and |
0:38.8 | anti-Semitism at Ivy League schools. That was a great podcast. And we're going to talk all |
0:43.2 | about the stuff that he's been talking about, which includes Jews and anti-Semitism, but also |
0:47.3 | journalism. And it's been the fifth year anniversary of the Harper's letter. He was talking |
0:53.1 | about that on his substack. So I invite you, Tuesday, 6 p.m. |
0:58.0 | Mark Oppenheimer. It's Monday, June 30th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. |
1:07.8 | I'm Mike Peska. A growing number of citizens are turning their backs on the agenda of Donald Trump. |
1:13.7 | And I am talking about the disgust over immigration crackdowns, the distaste over tariff |
1:18.5 | wars that go nowhere, the dissatisfaction over inflation. |
1:22.2 | Yes, that is all going on, and it's all picked up by the polls that show Trump is underwater, |
1:27.6 | 6% more disapproved than approve. |
1:30.0 | But actually, a reason why citizens are increasingly anti-Trump is that just a little while |
1:35.6 | ago, they weren't citizens. |
1:37.5 | They were elected officials in the Republican Party, and they are finding out and have |
1:42.7 | for years that there is no future for them in |
1:45.5 | opposing Donald Trump. After the former purges of Kinsinger, Cheney, Meyer, Upton, Gonzalez, Herrera |
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