Wonking Week: Play Hardball

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the fracas in Wisconsin and the start of the baseball season. In addition, Idea Lobby blogger Emily Badger examines academic freedom.
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Audio portions for this week’s Wonking Week podcast were drawn from:

- Samples from our first story on the events in Wisconsin were taken from citizen reporters at the following links: one, two and three.

- The outro to our discussion of Wisconsin was taken from an election advertisement for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

- The outro to our interview with Emily Badger was taken from a speech about collective bargaining in Poland given by President Ronald Reagan.

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