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ReConsider  is a podcast that will help you to both understand the drivers of our current hyperpartisan political mayhem, and also help you to defend yourself against it, by teaching cognitive biases, context, and history. 

Don’t listen to ReConsider to be told what to think, or to be told that you’re right. ReConsider is for the intellectually curious and courageous who are ready to lead the charge for sanity in modern politics.

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Erik Fogg

Erik Fogg

Erik has been fightning political polarization since before it was cool. He has a bachelors and masters from MIT in Political Science, in 2014 wrote the prophetic book Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment, and How to Start Thinking for Yourself Again, and has been podcasting and speaking on political polarization since 2015.

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Ukraine XI: Asymmetric Momentum

Ukrainian victories on the ground have been swift, dramatic, and devastating. And each win seems to make them stronger.

Russian victories (back when they happened), seemed to be slow and grinding, and wear the Rusisans down, making them weaker.

Why is it that Russians lose momentum with each victory, but Ukrainians gain it? Why such asymmetric momentum?

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ReConsidering Russia: The Complex History of Russia

Mark Schauss is the host of Russian Rulers History and Battle Ground History. Known for being heavily well-versed with the history of Russia, Mark Schauss joins us in today’s episode to talk about the Russian history in its most authentic form. Mark shares everything from Russia’s first invasion to how all these historic events reflect on how Russia moves socio-politically in today’s world.

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Ukraine IX: Oh HI, MARS

Hot Updates Severodonetsk fell slowly as expected, but then Lysychansk fell quickly because Russian troops surrounded it, and Ukrainian troops

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