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Jay Cost on the Politics of Patronage

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by Jay Cost to discuss his book Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and now Threatens the American Republic.  We discussed the history of the Democratic party’s patronage system, the state of modern …

James Carafano on Wiki at War

On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by James Carafano, the author of Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World, to discuss cyber warfare, social networking in a turbulent political age, and cyber crimes and terrorism.