The Jackpod: The times they are a-changin’
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on how the growth of inequality in the U.S. is creating a new political order willing to embrace raising tax rates.
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| 1:01.4 | I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst Jack Beatty helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 1:10.6 | Hello, Megna. You know, by now, |
| 1:12.2 | I think that most regular Jack Potters have also memorized that introduction, but I love giving it to |
| 1:16.9 | you every time. We're at episode 119. What's your headline for today? The times they are a |
| 1:24.0 | changing. Aren't they ever? But what specific way do you want to talk about this change? |
| 1:29.7 | Well, here is the sound of a, quote, new political order. |
| 1:35.6 | Governments can earth. |
| 1:38.8 | Presidents do make mistakes. |
| 1:41.8 | But the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded |
| 1:51.9 | and the sins of the warm-hearted, indifference scales. |
| 2:08.3 | Thank you. indifferent scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity |
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