Best John Ganz Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 2099: John Ganz on how America cracked up in the early 1990s 31:43

10h ago31:43

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It’s becoming more and more self-evident that the Nineties matter. John Ganz’s important new book, When the Clock Broke, focuses on how, in the early 1990’s, the seemingly crackpot ideas of what at the time appeared to be con men like David Duke and Pat Buchanan, infiltrated what remained Ronald Reagan’s optimistic, globalist Republican party. The …

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487: John Ganz: How the 1990s Broke America - Con Men, and Conspiracies, and a Failed Transition from the Reagan Years 58:08

11m ago58:08

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I Hate the ‘90s feat. John Ganz (E282) 1:10:11

4h ago1:10:11

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Do you look back on the early 90s with a sense of fondness? In this episode, we hope to ruin that for you just a little bit. What if we told you that this time period was crucial in the development of American right wing populism and therefore crucial for the eventual election of Donald Trump and the rise of QAnon? Bet you’re a little less nostalgi…

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Episode 2100: Banning Lyon's remarkable memoir of trauma, healing and the outdoors 42:08

2h ago42:08

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Back in August 2021, we did a show featuring the British psychologist Lucy Jones, about how nature maintains our sanity. Jones’ thesis is born out in the astonishing story of Banning Lyon, who was institutionalized in a Texan psychiatric hospital as a teenager and freed by his discovery of the outdoors. Lyon’s new memoir The Chair and the Valley is…

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Flynn (The Movie) (Premium E248) Sample 10:50

21m ago10:50

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We watched General Michael Flynn's "documentary" featuring family members, Tucker Carlson and early QAnon influencer Tracy "Beanz" Diaz. We find out that Flynn is a beautiful surfer, an anti-war angel, and a victim of deepstate machinations. Also his grandson is named Travis.Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + acces…

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Episode 2098: Guy Lawson gets us inside the biggest scandal in the history of college sports 35:05

3h ago35:05

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In episode 2065, we discussed the Malaysian contractor, Leonard Glenn Francis (aka: Fat Leonard) about the biggest recent scandal in the US navy. But, as Guy Lawson, author of Hot Dog Money explains in this episode, Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer gives Fat Leonard a good run for his money (so to speak) in Blazer’s participation and later expose of the…

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Episode 2097: Keen On America featuring Francis S. Barry 27:30

5h ago27:30

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As America braces itself for the upcoming Presidential election, a growing army of coastal commentators are agonizing over the health of the country’s democracy. In contrast with many of these desk bound pundits, the Bloomberg editorial director Frank Barry bought an RV and drove from New York City to San Francisco on the backroads of old Lincoln H…

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Episode 2096: Sasha Vasilyuk uncovers Ukraine secretive history by digging into the Soviet past 39:14

8h ago39:14

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In the wake of a “major Summit” on Ukraine which neither the Russians nor the Chinese attended, the war remains as murky and inconclusive as ever. And it’s this murkiness and inconclusiveness that the San Francisco based writer Sasha Vasiljuk explores in her new novel, Your Presence is Mandatory. But Vasiljuk’s semi-autobiographical, semi-fictional…

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Episode 2095: Keith Teare on why the AI game in Silicon Valley might already be all over 35:31

3h ago35:31

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Big Tech is getting even bigger. This was the week that NVIDIA joined Microsoft and Apple as a three trillion dollar company. And it’s also the week that, according to That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare, in which OpenAI’s deals with Microsoft and Apple might have locked up the AI economy. CHECKMATE! Keith thus entitles this week’s newsletter, …

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Episode 2094: Joseph O'Neill on football as the ugly game of neo-colonial exploitation 51:12

9h ago51:12

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The Euros start today and Copa America next week. So expect a slew of garbage about soccer/football as the “beautiful game” or, even more ludicrously, the “people’s game”. But as Joseph O’Neill shows in his timely new novel, Godwin, today’s trillion dollar football industry is a mirror of our globalized, neo-colonial economy. Think of Godwin as a c…

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Episode 2093: J. Albert Mann offers a Young Person's Guide to the History of American Labor 40:43

2h ago40:43

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How to write a history of labor in the United States for young people? According to the award-winning author J. Albert Mann, a history of labor written for children shouldn’t be childish. Indeed, her new book, Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States, is anything but childish in its very grown-up focus on exploitation and injustice.…

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Courage Under Fire 1:14:29

37m ago1:14:29

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For this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Courage Under Fire, a 1996 war drama directed by Edward Zwick and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, as well as Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Michael Moriarty and Bronson Pinchot. In Courage Under Fire, Denzel Washington plays Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serl…

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Episode 2092: Shane Burley on why Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism 46:03

8h ago46:03

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In episode 2082, James Kirchick suggested that being Jewish and being a Zionist should be of all of one thing. Shane Burley reverses this. The co-author of Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Antisemitism, the Portland based, religiously orthodox Burley suggests that being Jewish might actually mean questioning not just Netanyahu, but the…

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486 | Ruchir Sharma: What Went Wrong with Capitalism - Bailouts, Low Growth, Spiraling Debt, and the Case for Neoliberalism 56:04

1h ago56:04

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Episode 2091: Lilie Chouliaraki on the Weaponization of Victimhood 38:19

2h ago38:19

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One fashionable English language word I’d like to blow up is “weaponization”. Another is “victimhood”. So I couldn’t resist talking the London School of Eonomics professor Lilie Chouliaraki about Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood, her new book attempting to right how we abuse these two maligned words. Feeling wronged, Chouliaraki explains, i…

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Episode 2090: Meredith Broussard on the digital "revolution" of artificial unintelligence and inequality 37:56

2h ago37:56

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Sixteen months feels like sixteen centuries in the history of digital technology. Last year, the NYU data scientist Meredith Broussard came on episode 1360 to explain how technology is reinforcing inequality and what we can do about it. Today, seventeen hundred episodes later, Broussard explained to me when she came back on KEEN ON, both nothing an…

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485 | Peter S. Goodman: How the World Ran Out of Everything - Inside the Global Supply Chain 55:39

7d ago55:39

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Episode 2089: D.W. Gibson celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests 44:10

7d ago44:10

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The Nineties are back in fashion. Last week on KEEN ON, Terry Anderson explained why the Nineties still matter. Next week, we are featuring a conversation with John Ganz, the author of When the Calock Broke, his interpretation of how America “cracked up” in the early Nineties. Today we feature a conversation with D.W. Gibson, author of the oral his…

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Redpilled Poetry Night Deux feat E1 Podcast (Premium E247) Sample 9:55

2d ago9:55

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We read from poems by a "Truth Seeker & Spiritual Freedom Fighter” with Charles, Branson and Andrew from the E1 Podcast. Then we gather some of the best poets on earth — Thomas Kinkade Jr., Joseph Rogan No Relation, Jerome Durepois, Julien Feeld — and are joined by Hotdog Taylor, the poet turned famous rapper. He performs "Dumb Lib (I'm Sorry)", a …

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Episode 2088: Jeremy Utley on how to facilitate epiphanies 41:14

3h ago41:14

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We are having a Stanford self-improvement sort of weekend. Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation with two Stanford profs on how to acquire a venture capital mindset. Today, Jeremy Utley, the director of education at Stanford’s Institute of Design, teaches us how to facilitate our own epiphanies. In his new co-authored book, IdeaFlow: The Only …

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Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings 32:13

2h ago32:13

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall take a break from the daily news + current events grind and discuss the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings,…

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Episode 2087: Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev on How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist 46:38

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Venture capitalists aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. For leftists, they are Trump supporting vultures, feasting on the rotting carcass of neo-liberalism. But for Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev, co-authors of THE VENTURE MINDSET, the top venture capitalists offer a lesson to all of us in how to make smarter bets and achieve extraordinary growth in both …

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Episode 2086: Keith Teare on Silicon Valley's Trump-Biden dilemma 30:10

12d ago30:10

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That Was The Week author and Silicon Valley based entrepreneur Keith Teare isn’t a great fan of either Trump or Biden. But as he notes in this week’s newsletter, while Joe Biden is no dream candidate, Donald Trump is a “big no no” nightmare. But not everyone in Silicon Valley shares Keith’s distaste for Trump. Sequoia Capital partner, Doug Leone, f…

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484 | Steven Teles: The Rise of the Abundance Agenda & America's Factional Political Future 1:02:14

10h ago1:02:14

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Lock Him Up feat. Ali Breland (E281) 1:03:40

22h ago1:03:40

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Folks, they finally got him. A jury of Donald Trump’s peers determined that he violated New York Penal Law 175-10 in the first degree. We chat about how the conspiracist right is reacting to the news with a combination of vows for revenge, lamenting the fall of the nation, and insisting that this is good for Trump, actually. Plus we touch on the fi…

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Episode 2085: KEEN ON America featuring Nick Bryant 43:57

24h ago43:57

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The KEEN ON America series is supposed to feature conversations with prominent Americans about the post, present and future of their almost 250 year-old Republic. And while Nick Bryant was born in the UK and now lives in Australia, I think he nonetheless qualifies as an honorary American. The BBC’s America correspondent during the Bush and Clinton …

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Episode 2084: Terry H. Anderson on why the 1990's still matter so much 46:27

2d ago46:27

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“The past is never dead”, William Faulkner quipped, “it’s not even past.” Angry white men, a disruptive internet, political gridlock in DC, right-wing terrorism, lying Presidents…. Yes, the 2020’s began in the 1990’s with Ruby Ridge, Newt Gingrich, the Oklahoma bombing, Bill and Monica, Russ Limbaugh, and the dotcom madness. Indeed, according to Te…

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483 | John Strausbaugh: The Wrong Stuff - How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned 45:46

13d ago45:46

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