The best of Slate podcasts for the week of May 9.

Grit, Men’s Book Clubs, and Why You Don’t Control Facebook: The Week’s Best Podcasts

Grit, Men’s Book Clubs, and Why You Don’t Control Facebook: The Week’s Best Podcasts

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May 13 2016 8:56 PM
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The Best of Slate Podcasts

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In this edition of our members-only podcast digest, listen to the best segments of the week:

  • Slate Money on what’s unique about Facebook’s corporate governance, with special guest James Surowiecki of the New Yorker (begins at 00:00:35)
  • Mom and Dad Are Fighting on Angela Duckworth’s revolutionary but sort of made-up concept of “grit” (00:19:50)
  • The Culture Gabfest on men’s book clubs and the gender dynamics of literature (00:39:50)
  • And the Political Gabfest on Donald Trump’s escalating conflicts with Paul Ryan and Elizabeth Warren (01:00:15)

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