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Mar 2019
29m 32s

Peloton and Partisan Political Prejudice

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate Peloton, the high-flying exercise startup. They then discuss why partisan political prejudice is worse in some parts of the country than others.

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You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.


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