Hey, everybody. Welcome to the muckrake political podcast. I am your host, Nick Houselman. And for one more

episode, Jared D.R.D.S. Exxman is out and not available. But that just means that I am pleased to bring on

the show, Jason Needleman, who has been on the show before and as professor. And Jason, thank you so much

for coming on here. You're Your professor of Polly Sai.

Fill us in a little bit more just so I'm exactly accurate what your role is and your

depth of knowledge on all things politically. Well, I teach political science at University of

Laverne. My main field is political theory, which I describe as the intersection of politics and philosophy.

So right now, for example, I'm doing a big project on Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

Genevan, 18th century Genevaan philosopher, tentatively titled democracy as a way of life.

I had some, I think, good news from the peer review gremlins yesterday,

so a piece of that project should be coming out in a political theory journal soon. And I teach

other subjects in political science broadly, constitutional law, modern Middle East, state and local

politics. So, yeah, I'm pretty

broadly trained in the field of political science and political philosophy. Well, you know,

I'm glad that you're here because there's a lot to talk about. But first I want to tell you that

this is a weekender episode. And that means that if you want to hear the whole episode,

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