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Thomas Chatterton Williams' "Summer of Our Discontent"

11.09.2025
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Peter and Michael discuss a book that's light on facts and long on sentences.

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  • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

  • Book Review: ‘Summer of Our Discontent,’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
  • Police shootings database 2015-2024
  • From the archive, 22 March 1991: President Bush sickened by Rodney King case
  • Barack Obama Public Approval
  • Letter To Christopher L. Eisgruber, President Princeton University
  • Police give additional details in beating of machete-wielding man amid Dallas protest
  • In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
  • RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES: Challenger; Nation Needs Healing, Clinton Says
  • Median household income by race and ethnicity U.S. 1967-2023
  • Majority of college students support Israel/Gaza campus protests, 1 in 10 actually participate in them
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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