Episode

5/28 Daniel Schulman: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

May 28, 2014

Journalist Daniel Schulman author of the new Koch Brothers biography, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynastyexplains how the Koch Brothers father built his business in Soviet Union, where the families far right politics come from, the Kochs and the John Birch Society,the paranoia of the Koch family, racism and the right, were the Koch children abused by their father? The Koch family feud, the Kochs and the Libertarian movement, the Kochs and corporate subsidies and how the Kochs play politically.

On The Fun Half: Ben Carson says the VA crisis is a “gift from God”, the misogyny of Elliot Rodger, Pick Up culture, a Fox News therapist says Rodger might have been Gay, hacker Sabu released from prison after cooperating with the FBI and your IMs.

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