# Man-Child Graham Platner Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-gabfest-500617/man-child-graham-platner Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-gabfest-500617/man-child-graham-platner.md Podcast: [Political Gabfest](https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-gabfest-500617) Published: 2026-06-04T21:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/political-gabfest/episodes/man-child-graham-platner Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/696568de9ab39048a63ed7f7/e/6a21b83fe25fe33c7c5d44fd/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/political-gabfest-500617/episodes/man-child-graham-platner Duration seconds: 3760 ## Resource This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether Graham Platner's accumulating self-inflicted wounds will cost Democrats their best shot at Senate control, how Trump's evolving plans for America's semiquincentennial are giving us all a real time lesson in what the Founders were trying to avoid, and the political and social dimensions of being an American World Cup soccer fan. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss consuming escapist vs. difficult art and the turmoil of modern marriage through The Drama and Beef Season 2.   In the latest Gabfest Reads , John Dickerson talks with Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge about his new book The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism . In a moment when American democracy is under assault from authoritarian populists and dogmatic progressives, Wooldridge argues that liberalism itself offers the most resilient framework for pluralistic, self-correcting societies.   Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)   Podcast production by Nina Porzucki   Research by Emily Ditto You can find the full Political Gabfest show pages here .   Want more Political Gabfest? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Political Gabfest show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Or visit slate.com/gabfestplus to get access wherever you listen.   Find out more about David Plotz's monthly tours of Ft. DeRussy, the secret Civil War fort hidden in Rock Creek Park.     Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/Slate… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/political-gabfest-500617/episodes/man-child-graham-platner/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/political-gabfest-500617/man-child-graham-platner.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.