About this episode

The episode features a reading and discussion of a piece about the challenges of good ideas in a difficult time.

A reading and discussion of https://improvesomething.today/its-a-lousy-time-to-be-a-good-idea/ Includes discussion of a passage from The Game of Death by AD Nuttall for the LRB in 1992 .

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