This week, Daniel widens the frame. The danger is no longer confined to one town, one courthouse, or one airport line. War rhetoric overseas is shaping profiling, detention, screening, and the language now being used about whole classes of people here at home.
He also answers Buck Mercer and Cade Garrison directly, warns that the frequency should be treated as observed, and names what actually keeps a place steady under pressure: ordinary people who refuse isolation, panic, and contempt.
For those listening, this one reaches farther than usual.
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Written and Directed by Stephen Brewer
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Produced by Stephen Brewer for the Columbia podcast on Substack
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