In Lieu of Fun
Hosted by Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Mike Feinberg and Ben Berkley Fletcher · Benjamin Wittes and Kate Klonick
4.8from 89 ratings
- 678
- Episodes
- 179
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About In Lieu of Fun
It started with a coronavirus crisis. We thought people might need something to do in lieu of fun. And some people might need someone to yap at them as they go through this. We have a lot of cool friends. So we started a show. Then the crisis ended. But by then I was wearing dog shirts every day. And the the rest was the rest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Benjamin Wittes and Kate Klonick
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 10 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
179 of 678 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Debating Communism
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hittites and Italians with Ada Palmer
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Hell Tourist Industry
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Debating Communism
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I was in college when it happened. And I remember the joy, not my joy, but the joy of millions of people at the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe and communist rule in various former Soviet republics. And I remember thinking, wow, people don't want this. And I don't see why that is not worthy of respect. And I, that's where it begins and ends for me, you know, that it's a system. People weren't clamoring to get into East Berlin. The law wasn't to keep people out of East Berlin. Right. You know, and, and I think it's a remarkable fact of the resurgent left and the sort of young tankies of, of, twitter or blue sky or you know whatever or tiktok that a lot of them really don't have a memory of they don't know people who lived under these systems they don't uh they don't understand how progressive they were not um in terms of you know allowing expressions of human experience. […]
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- Ada Palmer
- Julia Curlee
- Jonathan Rauch
- Sarah Gruen
- Max Johnston
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 80 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.3 / 5
- 9 ratings
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- Quality
- 56
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Mike Feinberg and Ben Berkley Fletcher host the show. Published by Benjamin Wittes and Kate Klonick.
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