Jon Ronson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2011

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jon Ronson is a journalist, filmmaker and humorist who has written Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and has just published his newest book, The Psychopath Test.

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0:30.5	It's the sound of young America.
0:31.5	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:32.5	My guest on the program is the journalist John Ronson.
0:36.0	He's made a career of tracking down wing nuts
0:39.5	and extremists and people on the fringes
0:44.0	of all sorts of societies.
0:46.5	His latest book is called The Psychopath Test,
0:49.5	a journey through the madness industry.
0:52.0	It starts with a puzzle book
0:55.5	and travels through a long investigation of psychopathy
1:00.5	and psychiatry.
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