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Transcript: America This Week, June 16, 2023, "Arraignment Week"

Walter and Matt review the horrors of pre-arraignment dinner, Wolf on the Wall, and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"

Matt Taibbi
Jun 18, 2023
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Apologies to readers for the delay in getting the transcripts for this show out. In this episode of “America This Week,” Walter and I discuss arraignment week, the pathologizing of difference in media, and the Kurt Vonnegut story “Harrison Bergeron,” which turns out to have relevance to the present that I missed and Walter really did not. Without further ado, the transcript:

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