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May 2020
44m 47s

Why We Hate Being Told What To Do

JASON FEIFER
About this episode

People are refusing to wear masks during a pandemic. Why? To understand, we rewind to the “Anti-Mask League” of 1919 and to the opposition to seatbelt laws in the 1990s. Then we answer the big question: If people won’t listen to mandates, what *will* they listen to?


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