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Podcast: The Point Podcast
Episode: Rather Be Reading, Episode 3: Bad Desires
Description: On Episode 3 of Rather Be Reading, Anastasia Berg interviews Andrea Long Chu about her debut essay in n+1 “On Liking Women” and the problem with trying to get our desires to conform to our political principles (1:03). Then Rachel Rosenfelt, the founding editor of the New Inquiry and new publisher of the New Republic, joins us to talk about the history of Occupy at leftist magazines and the future of the New Republic (26:24). Finally, we call up Jon’s mom for her two cents on Doris Lessing, sexist bosses and Bernie bros (36:59).Editors: Jon Baskin, Anastasia Berg & Rachel WisemanGuests: Andrea Long Chu, R...