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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author:
Matthew Desmond
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman
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Andrew Postman
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author:
Isabel Wilkerson
Democracy in America
Authors:
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Harvey C. Mansfield
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Delba Winthrop
War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
Authors:
Leo Tolstoy
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Richard Pevear
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Larissa Volokhonsky
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Hannah Arendt
Episode overview
Our Times Opinion colleagues recently launched a new podcast called “The Opinions.” It’s basically the Opinion page in audio form, so you can hear your favorite Times Opinion columnists and contributing writers in one place, in their own voices.
It’s an eclectic and surprising mix of perspectives, as you’ll see with these two segments we’ve selected for you to enjoy. The first is with the Times Opinion columnist (and friend of the pod) David French, a lifelong conservative who’s staunchly pro-life, on why he’s voting for Kamala Harris this November, and the second is with the novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, who enters into a writing competition of sorts against a new writer on the block — ChatGPT.