UNLOCKED - #98 - The Intellectual Dork Web (w/ Michael Brooks)

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UNLOCKED - #98 - The Intellectual Dork Web (w/ Michael Brooks)

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Jul 21, 2020

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We're unlocking our April 19, 2019 Patreon episode with the late, great Michael Brooks in which we discussed the "Intellectual Dark Web" and one of its stupidest practitioners, Dave Rubin.

Check out "Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right" by Michael Brooks - https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-web

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Jul 21, 2020

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UNLOCKED - #98 - The Intellectual Dork Web (w/ Michael Brooks)

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