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Nobody Has a Monopoly on Truth: Norm Finkelstein Extended Interview

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Nobody Has a Monopoly on Truth: Norm Finkelstein Extended Interview

Norm talks cancel culture, civil rights, his communist crush, and more in this funny and controversial talk with Matt and Katie

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Katie Halper
Jun 28, 2021
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“For even your most deep-seated belief, you have to leave at least some corner of your mind open to the possibility that you’re wrong.”

Why? Because Norm told you to.

He describes how he learned this key life lesson from a college professor. This professor is the only professor he remembers because this was the only professor who forced him to think. His right-wing professor.

A devil’s advocate, no matter how much you fundamentally disagree with them, no matter how nauseating, plays a useful function in the pursuit of truth. And Professor Finkelstein knows that if we surround ourselves in an echo chamber of like-minded beliefs, nobody’s going to learn a thing.

Matt and Katie can barely keep up as Norm swerves from telling non-PC jokes to lambasting today’s activists, from lampooning himself to sharing vivid stories of civil rights history that electrified his political career.

You just can’t miss it.

It’s all this, and more, on this week’s subscriber-only episode of Useful Idiots. Listen here.

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Paul M
Jun 29, 2021

That collage is legend.

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Boris Petrov
Jun 28, 2021

Norman is a man of the highest integrity and pride of Jews and Americans.

His academic career was destroyed by apartheid racists a la Harvard's Alan Dershowitz and Steven Pinker who frolicked with Jeffrey Epstein.

"Frolicked" pedophiliacs -- together with Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, prince Andrew, and many, many other -- all controlled by Epstein's blackmailing handlers.

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