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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: Why Do So Many Young People Think the Unabomber was Right?
Description: Darts and LettersĀ is creating a new podcast,Ā Academic Edgelords.This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. This is a leftist podcast that takes a second look at their peer-reviewed work, and tries to see if thereās anything we might learn from arguing with them. We are hosted by: Victor Bruzzone, Gordon Katic, Matt McManus, and Ethan Xavier (AKA āMouthy Infidelā).On this episode, we introduce our show by reading the ultimate academic edgelord: Ted Kacynski, who just died. This domestic terrorist was also a real scholar, with a few peer-reviewed works in mathemat...