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149 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Embrace your political despair

149 - A.K. 47 - Bonus Episode - Embrace your political despair

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Kristen Ghodsee shares a conservation with a previous guest from March 2022, a self-described anarchist activist, about the value of feeling one’s political despair and using it to generate political creativity.

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Kristen R. Ghodsee is the award-winning author of twelve books and a professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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