Brian Klaas is an American political scientist who works at University College London and writes essays for The Atlantic. His most recent book is Fluke, a study of chaos and random chance, but we’ll concentrate on a title of Brian’s from 2022 called Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, which deals with the wide variety of corruptions in a modern politics, the conditions that allow them to thrive, and how they might be starved of both water and light.
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Corruptible, by Brian Klaas
Fluke, by Brian Klaas
“The Other Side of Deportation,” an essay by Mike about the border, Trump, and Third World–style corruption
A podcast by Brian, featuring Mike and several other guests on kidnappings and ransom
