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Panem is Here: Inside Trump’s "Hunger Games" (Freedom 250)
The internet laughed when Donald Trump announced the "Patriot Games" for the Freedom 250 Semiquincentennial. "It's the Hunger Games!" everyone tweeted.
They were right, but for the wrong reasons.
In this episode, we look past the memes at the dark reality of summoning "one young man and one young woman" from every state to compete for the Sovereign in Washington D.C. This isn't a track meet; it's a ritual.
We break down the biopolitics of the event, using Giorgio Agamben to explain how the State is asserting ownership over the biological bodies of American youth. We look at how this spectacle…
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