Sam Harris Podcast – On Tyranny

If you hunger for in-depth, well informed, discussion concerning the political situation we find ourselves in as I do, then you might like THIS PODCAST #79 episode from neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris.

Sam interviews Yale professor and historian Timothy Snyder about his timely new book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

If the podcast catches your interest consider buying the book. It is a quick 128 page read.

Esquire: Regretful Trump Voters

Best paragraph ever written:

Holy mother of god, I’m tired of reading quotes from people who live in places where the local economy went to hell or Mexico in 1979, and who have spent the intervening years swallowing whatever Jesus Juice was offered up by theocratic bunco artists of the Christocentric Right, and gulping down great flagons of barely disguised hatemongering against the targets of the day, all the while voting against their own best interests, now claiming that empowering Donald Trump as the man who will “shake things up” on their behalf was the only choice they had left. You had plenty of choices left.

Link to the full article: Why I’ll Never Sympathize with Regretful Trump Voters