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EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic

EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic

Update: 2025-06-181
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Three and a half years ago, during the pandemic era, we launched Lean Out to explore some basic questions about illiberalism in our response to the crisis — and in our culture, our politics, and our newsrooms. Today, for our 200th episode of the show, we're thrilled to be joined by two academics who have written a deeply researched book that provides some answers.

Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. And Frances Lee is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. Their new book is In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.

You can find Tara Henley on Twitter at @TaraRHenley, and on Substack at tarahenley.substack.com

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EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic

EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic

Tara Henley