Last week's NYC book launch for Radicalized took the form of a fantastic conversation with the journalist Julia Angwin; the Strand folks were kind enough to video it and they've posted it to Youtube. Julia is incredibly smart and a wonderful interviewer, and we had some great Q&A as well.
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3:03 pm Sat
Mar 23, 2019
Video from the Radicalized launch with Julia Angwin at The Strand
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