#173 The Aesthetics Of Rigour

June 27, 2018

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Why should you trust the press when politicians have Twitter? And we read the Steven Galloway "article" in Quillette so you don't have to; turns out there may have been a slight conflict of interest.

Jesse Brown

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David Crosbie

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Justin Ling co-hosts.

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