Apr 19, 2023
Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist
Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
* Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Affairs Big Mac I," The New York Times, December 8, 1996.
* Matt Taibbi's critique of Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- "Flathead" Strauss Media, November 21, 2014.
* Jason Hickel et al., "Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015," Global Environmental Change, March 2022.
* Thomas Friedman, "The Earth Is Full," The New York Times, June 7, 2011.
* Thomas Friedman, "Something's Happening Here," The New York Times, October 11, 2011.
* Thomas Friedman, "Want to Save th…