Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Behavioral scientist Samuel Bowles charts out the path towards a moral economics.
Samuel is author of The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens from Yale University Press.
10:00 - Historian Elizabeth Catte explores the Appalachia-sized gap in the liberal worldview.
Elizabeth wrote the piece Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” for Salon.
10:35 - Columnist Adele Stan examines the dark money fortunes of the Trump White House.
Adele wrote the article What We Do Is Secret: Trumpism as a private-capital scam for The Baffler.
11:05 - Middle East scholar Wendy Pearlman talks about why it's so hard to talk about Syria.
Wendy returns to discuss her interview earlier this month, and her book We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria.
11:35 - Investigative journalist Greg Palast digs through the GOP's vote suppression files.
Greg's latest report is Sanders and Jackson join hands to take on Trump’s Vote Thief-in-Chief at his website.
12:10 - Historian Sean Guillory looks at Vladimir Putin's politics, from Russian eyes.
Sean produces the very valuable and recommended Seans' Russia Blog podcast.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives reality a strip search and pat down.
Is that the order you do those two things?