Journal of the Plague Years: the Podcast

Journal of the Plague Years: the Podcast

Literary, journalistic, irreverent yet oddly serious, Journal of the Plague Years gets the story behind the story. journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com

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May 30, 2025 53 mins

The scandal of the week was Donald Trump’s acceptance of a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar, a $400 million “flying palace” that will cost the U.S. an estimated $1 billion to retrofit for the security necessary for a U.S. president.

The story of Trump’s eagerness to accept Qatar’s luxury jet captured public attention not only because of its tackiness - the jet, in fact, is an outdated behemoth, much like Trump himself - but becaus...

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If you’ve been reading other Substacks whose authors are talking about Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia, you’ve probably come across the name Craig Unger.

Author of two definitive books on Trump and Russia, House of Trump, House of Putin (2019) and American Kompromat (2021) Unger is the gold standard on the question of whether Trump is, indeed, a Russian asset. That question has swirled around for years, but it has gained ur...

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