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Aug 2023
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'On Bullsh*t' and the Pundit Industrial ...

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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For this month's bonus episode we dissected Harry Frankfurt's gloriously brief bestseller and applied the concept to our favorite op-ed page. To hear the rest of the show, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod 
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