Kakistocracy: Jack Beatty on government by the worst

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October 13, 2023

Jack Beatty
Meghna Chakrabarti
Tim Skoog

An anti-war protestor holds an upside-down American Flag during a demonstration against war in Iraq and Iran outside the White House on January 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

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Guest
Jack Beatty, On Point's news analyst. He was a longtime senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly, which he joined in September of 1983, having previously worked as a book reviewer at Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic.

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