Propaganda Loves You: Summer Book Series Preview, Biweekly Schedule, and Midterms Focus

In this special preview episode of “Propaganda Loves You,” the hosts recap last season’s books—Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny,” Ira Katznelson’s “When Affirmative Action Was White,” and “The Dawn of Everything”—and announce a summer reading series running to the midterms while continuing core episodes with a new focus. The summer books are Ari Berman’s “Minority Rule,” about anti-democratic tactics like voter suppression, gerrymandering, dark money, and court capture; Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow,” on mass incarceration as contemporary racial control; and bell hooks’ “All About Love,” exploring love as a definable practice and political act. They also shift to a biweekly release schedule with one core and one book episode, and plan core coverage of local House and Senate races, including New York 21.

00:00 Summer Series Preview

00:50 Last Season Recap

01:48 Listener Map Challenge

03:25 Book One Minority Rule

07:13 Book Two The New Jim Crow

10:15 Book Three All About Love

16:14 Schedule and Midterms Focus

17:15 Local Election Talk

18:26 Wrap Up and Call to Action