Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist

Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language. For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. Sources/Links/Notes: Thomas Friedman, " Foreign Affairs Big Mac I ," The New York Times , December 8, 1996. Matt Taibbi's critique of Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- " Flathead " Strauss Media , November 21, 2014. Jason Hickel et al., " Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 ," Global Environmental Change , March 2022. Thomas Friedman, " The Earth Is Full, " The New York Times , June 7, 2011. Thomas Friedman, " Something's Happening Here ," The New York Times , October 11, 2011. Thomas Friedman, " Want to Save the Earth? We Need a Lot More Elon Musks. ," The New York Times , November 16, 2021. Thomas Friedman, " How We Broke the World ," The New York Times , May 30, 2020. Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work , November 1, 2011. Here's the archive of Global Citizen columns by Donella Meadows. Ian Parker, " The Bright Side: The relentless optimism of Thomas Friedman ," The New Yorker , November 2, 2008. Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree , 1999. Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat , YouTube video of Yale University Lecture, 2009. Garrett Graff, " Thomas Friedman is On Top of the World ," Washingtonian Magazine, July 1, 2006. Support the show