Hour 2: Building Monuments

With all the cost of h1B applications, why are employers still hiring them over Americans? Kaity Passe breaks down what she’s found. Are Democrats going to nominate a candidate that people cant stand?Follow The Jesse Kelly Show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJesseKellySh ...  Show more

Medal of Honor: Rodger Wilton Young. Corporate America loves their H-1B’s because it reduces labor costs. The Trump administration needs to pivot from lecturing his voting base. The Charm Offensive. The university system is dying.Follow The Jesse Kelly Show on YouTube: https://ww ...  Show more

In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.See omnystudio.com/listener ...  Show more

In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogates the state of monuments across the greater U.S. and what their future says about where we are now and where we’re going. This was t ...  Show more

Lessons from the world’s most perfect memorial.Get Revisionist History updates first by signing up for our newsletter at pushkin.fm. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

How good did the Roman emperors have it? The Gist asks UCLA history professor Ronald Mellor to compare a ruler's bounty in the ancient world with life in modern America. Plus, Kashmir Hill from Forbes explains the latest tarnish on Facebook's reputation for dubious privacy practi ...  Show more