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Trenchant critique of the war on free speech

Revisado: 08-14-20

Mr. Rauch already saw very clearly the anti-scientific consequences of hate speech laws and where the war on free speech was headed over 25 years ago. He was too optimistic, but forcefully made the case for being so.

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Instructive exploration of a culture of fraud

Revisado: 08-08-20

While this would have been better as a fuller, written treatment, the oral history of the power of a fraudulent culture is insightful. Created by a leader who used sex appeal to hoodwink old men who should have known better and tearjerker stories and secrecy to hoodwink almost everyone else, Theranos is a lesson in the dangers of groupthink, hive-mindedness, and conventional wisdom. Tyler Shulz’s speech to his grandfather near the end of the ordeal is courageous and brilliant. I hope he writes a full account at some point.

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Flat, boring, meandering plot

Revisado: 08-08-20

A mystery that does not draw listeners in with good clues that move the plot forward. A tedious story.

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More realistic than Mrs America

Revisado: 08-08-20

While a more accurate portrayal of Bella Abzug than Margo Martindale’s in “Mrs America”, that still doesn’t make it revelatory or enjoyable.

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One decent song

Revisado: 08-08-20

This is an almost endlessly repetitive performance, apart from the beautiful song, “God is Love,” which closes the story. The theology of the song is misguided at best, but the song is lovely. Otherwise, Common is common. Why does so much hip hop sound the same?

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Listen, Dan...

Revisado: 08-07-20

Mr Rather seems to be blind to his own role in undermining a free and independent press, and has not taken his own advice to listen to his opponents.

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This should be taken down and destroyed

Revisado: 03-22-20

If you can imagine a reader whose performance is more stilted than a bad LibriVox narrator AND a video game soundtrack playing behind MARTIN BUBER'S I AND THOU, that is exactly the sacrilege you will hear here. Absolutely unbelievable...by far the worst recording I've ever heard on Audible. It should be deleted and the reader should be barred from posting anything else.

(The narrator claims it's the hardest text he's ever read, so watch out for anything else he's done and click away quickly. To the narrator: please do not ever record a book again.)

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Libido Dominandi

Revisado: 03-08-19

As sad and pathetic as this account and these lives are, the remembrance does illustrate the ouroborotic pain of the inner circle, the anxiety of influence, and the frenetic, unsatisfiable pursuits of the libido dominandi. And then you die.

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