87 | The Politics of Left-Wing Climate Realism w/ Dr. Ajay Singh Chaudhary

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136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy

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135 | The Ambiguities of Reconstruction w/ Professor Lucien Ferguson

In this episode, we are joined by Assistant Professor of Law Lucien Ferguson (Chicago-Kent College of Law) to discuss the ambiguities of freedom and labor in the constitutional interpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments that were passed after the US Civil War. Our discussion ...  Show more

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