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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The Jackpod: The one apple tasted

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the rise of illiberalism in the U.S. today and its historic entwinement with liberalism in America.

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Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink software,

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accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at Math Works.

0:11.0

Come. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken,

0:15.0

a podcast from BU.

0:17.0

Questram School of Business.

0:19.0

Stick around until the end of this podcast

0:21.0

for a preview of a recent episode exploring the history of investors holding

0:26.1

businesses accountable and the dawn of the ESG or environmental social governance movement.

0:33.0

I'm Magna Chakra Bardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jackbeady helps us connect history, literature, and

0:45.3

politics in his unique way that brings clarity to the world we live in now.

0:50.3

Hello there jack.

0:51.9

Hello magnum. We have arrived at episode now. Hello there, Jack. Hello, Magna.

0:52.9

We have arrived at episode 33.

0:56.1

What's your headline?

0:57.3

The one apple tasted.

0:59.3

The one apple tasted.

1:01.0

Okay, so what's the apple referring to?

1:04.0

Well, it's a quotation from John Milton in Paradise Lost, and it goes this way.

1:10.0

It was from out the Rhine of the one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil as two

1:18.3

twins cleaving together leaped forth into the world.

1:24.0

Hmm.

1:25.0

So a biblical reference about good and evil leaping into the world,

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