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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Is America the victim of its own hubris? Can we solve our problems together again, or will the assault of the billionaires succeed in taking power? Guest host Jefferson Smith asks the key questions and ponders listeners' answers.
Plus - Thom reads from "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" by Nancy MacLean
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0:42.6 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
0:48.8 | The sun is rich and gladly pays in golden hours, silver days, and long green weeks that never end. |
0:57.6 | School's out. The time is ours to spend. There's little league hopscotch, the creek, and after |
1:04.0 | supper hide the seek. A live long light is like a dream and freckles come like flies to cream. |
1:10.7 | It is summer. This is the Tom Harbin show. I'm Jefferson Smith. I love summer. |
1:17.7 | Landscape of the fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams. |
1:22.3 | According to Brighale and I hope it's Brighale, when Icarus fell, it was spring. |
1:27.1 | A farmer was plowing his field. The whole pageantry of the year was wake tingling near. |
1:32.8 | The edge of the sea concerned with itself, sweating in the sun that melted the wing's wax |
1:38.6 | unsignificantly off the coast. There was a splash quite unnoticed. This was Icarus drowning. |
1:45.9 | It is summer and it is a time to think about these times. |
1:50.8 | Over the weekend, since this group gathered, an attempted rebellion, I guess an attempt |
1:57.5 | to rebellion as a rebellion in Russia, and since you and I last spoke, a submarine for the ultra-wealthy |
2:08.9 | almost out of a tragic, ironically tragic script plunged intentionally towards the Titanic |
2:16.8 | and then ended very unintentionally. The Greeks told us a story. |
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