{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The True Crisis: The Liberal Backbone Chapter 15","description":"About a year ago, I started publishing draft chapters of my book in progress, The Liberal Backbone. It hit me lately that the draft is done \u2013 I realized that with the latest chapters I\u2019d started writing a second book. That one will be on alienation, which I think deserves a book of its own. So I\u2019m calling it. I\u2019m going to switch to editing The Liberal Backbone \u2014 and, no doubt, editing some more, and then, more. To make time for it, I\u2019ll be cutting back on the frequency of podcast episodes for a while. For this one, I want to sum up why I think it\u2019s so crucially important for the lost liberal backbone to be restored. In a nutshell: the future of democracy depends on it. \u2014 Spencer ","author_name":"Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good","author_url":"https:\/\/dastardlycleverness.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39489475\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/39489475"}