Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Show 319 - A Recipe for Caesar

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Show Notes

Does a global pandemic help break the spell of our bitter partisan conflict, or does it just raise the stakes? In the first CS show in years Dan wrestles with the Zeitgeist.

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