America This Week

Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.racket.news/s/america-this-week?utm_medium=podcast">www.racket.news</a>

America This Week - Monday Live Show 11/3/25

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11-04
02:02:27

America This Week, Oct 31, 2025: "The Great Mass Media Panic, and History Betrays Orwell Again"[Substack Video Version]

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLawrence O'Donnell goes full wanker, and "Animal Farm" is reimagined as a critique of capitalism

10-31
30:37

America This Week, Monday Live Show 10/27/25

Thank you Keith Teare, Heather King, Whitney McKnight, Phil Stanford, Doctor H, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

10-29
02:06:47

America This Week, Monday Live Show 10/20/2025

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10-22
02:10:18

America This Week, Oct 10, 2025: "American Psychos"

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCA Gov Candidate Katie Porter's outbursts, Hasan Piker's shocking controversy, and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

10-10
30:18

America This Week - Monday Live Show 10/6/25

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10-08
02:24:24

America This Week, Oct 3, 2025: "Surveillance is Not Speech"

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10-03
30:18

America This Week, Sept 26, 2025: "A Step Closer to Civil War?"

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09-26
30:34

America This Week, Live on Monday 9/22/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA recording from Monday's live video

09-23
20:08

America This Week, Sept 19, 2025: Kimmel, Kirk, and The Speech Crisis Strikes Back

After years of First Amendment threats in the digital realm, Trump’s FCC aims at the public airwaves. Also, wrapping up The Hound of the Baskervilles. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

09-19
02:13:09

America This Week Monday Live Show 9/15/25

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09-16
02:04:41

America This Week, Monday Live Show 9/8/2025

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09-09
01:47:11

America This Week, September 5, 2025: "The Arrest of Graham Linehan, Heretic to the Civic Religion"

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLinehan is punished, Malcolm Gladwell rewarded, and world politics has become contests of dueling faiths. Plus, a classic novel by a childhood favorite of Walt and Matt

09-05
02:31:56

America This Week, August 29, 2025: "Everyone in Minnesota Has Gone Crazy"

Mass murder is one thing, but misgendering is apparently the real crime. Plus, wrapping up "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

08-29
02:05:09

America This Week Monday Live Show 8/25/25

A recording from Monday night’s live video This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

08-26
02:04:07

America This Week, August 22, 2025: "Is the New York Times a Government-in-Exile?"

From journalism icon to daily newsletter of an ousted micro-minority, the Times has taken quite a journey. Also, "That Hideous Strength," by CS Lewis This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

08-22
02:07:06

America This Week, August 15, 2025: An Avalanche of Russiagate Revelations, and Walter Prepares for Real Time

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDevastating documents are being released at a breakneck pace, but will they matter? Plus “That Hideous Strength,” by CS LewiS

08-15
30:46

America This Week, August 8, 2025: "The AI Invasion: Why the Media Won't Correct Itself"

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhen all you have to convince is a programmable AI, journalism becomes a contest of might, not right. Plus, the brutal hilarity of Voltaire's "Candide"

08-08
30:38

America This Week, August 1, 2025: "Durham Declassified: History's Stupidest Political Conspiracy Unmasked"

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08-01
30:32

America This Week, Monday Livestream 7/28/25

A recording from Monday's live video This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe

07-30
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