Chas & Guest PEPcaster Melina Wicks discuss The Most Patriotic Resumé, Riggs-ing An Election, and Why Abrego Garcia Is Like A Cheese Toastie
0:00 – Introducing: Melina Wicks
2:30 – Grateful (NBA, Oscars, Murkowski, Principled Lawyers)
14:51 – Updates (Musk, Trade War, FCC)
40:56 – Harvard v Trump
1:07:05 – El Salvador Deportations
1:57:26 – SignalGate 2.0 & Hegseth
2:16:53 – RFK’s Autism Study
2:47:45 – Medicaid & The Budget
3:20:03 – Deportations Part 2 (Supreme Court)
3:51:24 – Unleashed (Student Deportations)
4:25:36 – Unleashed (North Carolina Election)
4:45:47 – Correspondence (Legal, Houthi, Red Caesar, Immigration, Trade War, Midterms, Kids, Polling, Christianity)
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THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
Geoffrey Blainey – The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
Margaret Levi – Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
Margaret Levi – Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
Sid Meier – Sid Meier’s Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
David Simon & Ed Burns – The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
Maurice O. Wallace – King’s Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent – (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
Robert Plunket – My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
Ian Lambot & Greg Girard – City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
Max Chafkin – The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
Claire Conner – Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al – Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry – The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
Cynthia Miller-Idriss – Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin – Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
Elizabeth Ingleson – Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
John Corrigan – Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
G̩rard Prunier РFrom Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
Liu Cixin, – The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
Tilman Allert – The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
Philip Roth – Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
Joshua Cohen – The Netanyahus
Zeke Faux – Number Go Up
Michael Paul Rogin – The Intellectuals and McCarthy
Cathy Kramer – The Politics of Resentment
Naomi Klein – Doppelganger
Maria Bamford – Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult
Wendy Brown – States Of Injury
Corey Robin. – The Reactionary Mind
Patricia Lockwood – No One Is Talking About This
David Cay Johnston – The Making of Donald Trump
Jane Mayer – Dark Money
Harry Frankfurt – On Bullshit
Stephen King – The Dead Zone
Elle Hardy – Beyond Belief
Federico Finchelstein – From Fascism to Populism in History
Robert Jervis – Why Intelligence Fails
Alex Haley and Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Jonathan Haidt – The Righteous Mind
David Graeber – Debt: The First 5000 Years
Jerry L. Mashaw – Creating The American Administrative Constitution
Brian Balogh – A Government Out of Sight
Paul Connerton – How Societies Remember
Paul Connerton – How Modernity Forgets
Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert – Vaxxers
John Zaller – The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Matthew Karp – This Vast Southern Empire
Robert Fatton – The Guise of Exceptionalism
Anatol Lievin – Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
James Alfred Aho – The Politics of Righteousness
The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
James Beverley – God’s Man in the White House
Jane Chi Hyun Park – Yellow Future
Matthias Gardell – In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
Gosta Esping-Andersen – The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Suzanne Mettler – The Submerged State
Brendon O’Connor – Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
James Morone – Hellfire Nation
Nathan Kalmoe – With Ballots and Bullets
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan – The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
Mary L. Trump – Too Much And Never Enough
Richard Cooke – Tired of Winning
Jon Ronson – So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O’Connor – How America Compares
Tony Horwitz – Confederates In the Attic
Ghassan Hage – White Nation
George Lakoff – Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
George Lakoff – Metaphors We Live By
Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow
Alex S. Vitale – The End of Policing
Dave Cullen – Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Thomas Sugrue – The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Rick Pearlstein – The Invisible Bridge
Rick Pearlstein – Before the Storm
Rick Pearlstein – Nixonland
Brian Doherty – Radicals for Capitalism
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter – When Prophecy Fails
Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead – A Lot Of People Are Saying
Benjamin Moffitt – The Global Rise of Populism
Jon Krakauer – Missoula
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