Why Plant Bombs?

Update: 2025-01-04

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In the second episode of What Rough Beast, we speak with Patrick Radden Keefe, whose nonfiction account of the Irish Republican Army, Say Nothing, was adapted last year into a Hulu series. Virginia Heffernan speaks with the acclaimed author of Empire of Pain about the parallels between those Irish radicals and Luigi Mangione.

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Randall Cohn

I want to like you guys. But is the complaint against the American healthcare system really that people are forced to wait on the phone too long? You seem smart enough to be able to think more creatively and analytically about structural violence.

Mar 6th

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