{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Frealclearinvestigations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F139-w9d9mROd","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"American Political Violence, Russian Plague Labs, and More! | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #139","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/69be5d4f-b498-44bc-b3b5-f614ce9a7957/141b908c-3057-4529-9c53-6a2670582e3c/cropped_1792197336902.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/f04faf72-1c92-4786-bccc-dd8ada47bd35\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"American Political Violence, Russian Plague Labs, and More! | RealClearInvestigations Podcast #139\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney use two articles – a New York Times piece on the rising number of violent threats against US elected officials and a CNN report on the growing number of extremists targeting data centers – to discuss the various factors helping unleash what Philip Roth called the, “American Berserk.” They also discuss a Tablet story detailing how a recent death at a Russian laboratory studying plague has increased fears of another man-made pandemic. \n\n00:00 Welcome\n01:47 HEADLINE 1: NYT Finds Elected Officials Living in Fear of Violence\n04:11 Mental Health, Isolation, and the Anonymity of the Crowd\n09:56 HEADLINE 2: CNN on Attacks on Data Centers and the Overton Window on Violence\n11:09 Meta's Louisiana Data Center and the Transparency Problem\n13:25 FOIA as a Shield: Why Officials Won't Explain Themselves\n17:07 BLM, January 6, Effective Altruism, and the Normalization of Violence\n22:03 HEADLINE 3: What Is Russia Hiding in Its Plague Labs? (Tablet)\n"}