First, I would change the music and rewrite the intro and links. Norman Mailer is, of course, one of the old lions of the literary left, and for anyone old enough he needs no introduction. But for most of the rest of us, more context is essential. In this case, in this setting, for this variation on his favorite subject, there should be a mention of Armies of the Night, which qualifies him as a narrative journalist, and long-time opponent of quagmire-qua-war and the growth of the American Empire.

I've listened to this three times, and I am not persuaded by the argument, which is rambling and difficult to follow. But listening to Mailer is rewarding, for the lion in repose, and the few hiccups and rustlings as he reads from his notes -which he does well.

It's in the QA section that we have a classic Mailer line: "The only way that the [Administration's] narrative could have been impugned [...] involves a very difficult job: and that is, you have to become an expert, a sayer, of highly developed, skillfully formulated, bullshit. It's no easy job." Sadly, it's not working.