Uneducated Posturing
With a Secretary of Education like Betsy DeVos, is there any hope?
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Episode Notes
On the Gist, the Washington football team have more work ahead than they realize.
In the interview, Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri joins Mike to chat about her recently published book Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why. A hand-picked anthology of her some of her best essays that are mockingly sharp, and unsettlingly cheerful, it showcases the satirist’s gleefully distorted take on our political and social realities.
In the spiel, educational idiocy.
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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.
