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Palo Alto, “Laboratory for the Construction of Whiteness”
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Palo Alto, “Laboratory for the Construction of Whiteness”

Audio of my conversation with Malcolm Harris
Ben Tumin
Apr 14, 2023
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Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History, and most recently, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. This last, wonderfully comprehensive, and chilling book is the subject of our conversation today.

Malcolm and…

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Skipped History
Skipped History
Interviews with top historians about their latest work. Mainly educational, often funny. Conveniently, most of the jokes are about people too far underground to punch back.
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