#140 — Burning Down the Fourth Estate

Sam Harris speaks with Matt Taibbi about the state journalism and
the polarization of our politics. They discuss the controversy
over Steve Bannon at the New Yorker Festival, monetizing the
Trump phenomenon, the Jamal Kashoggi murder, the Kavanaugh
hearing, the Rolling Stone reporting on the UVA rape case, the
viability of a political center, the 2020 Presidential election,
the Russia investigation, our vanishing attention span, and other
topics.


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