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Mark Wallace--Going Back In Time
The greatest mathematicians in America confront their fears that AI is rendering them obsolete. Ben riffs. Mark Wallace returns to talk the midterms, undoing Trump’s damage and why he thinks Stephen A Smith is a moron. Also, a few words about the mayoral election. Mark hosts The People’s Show, a podcast based in Chicago.
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Oct. 20, 2026
The Blue Flame
It feels like I've been enthusiastically reading novels by George Pelecanos since I was born. But, no, I was well past 50 before I'd heard of Pelecanos, much less read one of his novels. This was in 2008 or so when I read a review of his latest. …
Oct. 10, 2026
Country of Lords
Just finished reading Country of Lords, a brilliant account of, well, so many things. First of all, shoutout to Kim Phillips-Fein, the history professor at Columbia University, who wrote it. I learned so much from Country of Lords that I went righ…
Oct. 4, 2026
That’s Your Senator, Missouri
In the category of people who keep claiming the sun rises in the west despite all evidence to the contrary... Senate Republicans held yet another hearing designed to prove Trump won an election everyone knows he lost. It was a Senate Judiciary Com…
Sept. 29, 2026
Remarkably Idiotic Creatures
So, there I was last Saturday afternoon, watching the big game--Texas versus Tennessee--when I saw something I'd never seen in all my years of watching sports. Which is a whole lotta years, let me tell you. This Texas defensive lineman named Colin…
Sept. 24, 2026
While I Was Eating Shrimp Dumplings...
Read an article the other day in The New York Times by a reporter named Teddy Rosenbluth, who I presume is a real person. Though in these days of A.I., you never know. It's about Zou and Pak, a couple of scientists at Stanford, who oversaw a team o…
Sept. 20, 2026
How Could They Forget About The Daleys?
In the category of if you live long enough, you'll see it all... How is it possible that a developer, even a billionaire, would try to build something in Chicago without really running it by the Daleys? Especially if that developer wants to buy th…
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