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.

Author:: Miller-McCune Staff
Updated:: Jun 14, 2017
Original:: Apr 5, 2011

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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