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Doug Wilson

@dougazdedc.bsky.social

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Senior foreign policy advisor to pres candidates Gary Hart, Martin O’Malley, Pete Buttigieg. Tech troglodyte. AZ native, DE resident, dog and pizza lover. Co-host, BoomerLennials podcast

226 Followers  |  7 Following  |  19 Posts  |  Joined: 26.04.2025  |  1.6589

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“Shana Tovah”(with Theo Baker and Jeremy Ben-Ami) Jews around the world will celebrate Rosh Hashana, the beginning of the Jewish New Year.

boomerlennials.substack.com/p/shana-tova.... Join this special Rosh Hashana BoomerLennials discussion of the generational contexts and current conflicts shaping the annual reflections on religious upbringings and Jewish identities

25.09.2025 10:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope, Interrupted (with Mike Medavoy, Gayle Smith and Suzanne Nossel) Not so long ago, the United States was seen by millions around the globe as their aspirational goal – the symbol of freedom, compassion for others, aid and assistance for those who desperately needed ...

And here’s the link to the “Hope, Interrupted” podcast, now available on Substack, Spotify and Apple: open.substack.com/pub/boomerle...

21.08.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

MikeMedavoy, for 50 years one of Hollywood’s most prolific and respected producers, joins us to discuss why America is no longer the aspirational goal of millions, on the next BoomerLennials, posting tomorrow on Substack, Spotify & Apple: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/thursday-hop…

20.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Former head of USAID and ONE Gayle Smith, respected worldwide for her humanitarian efforts, joins us for our latest BoomerLennials podcast on why US is no longer the aspirational goal of millions, posting tomorrow on Substack, Spotify and Apple: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/thursday-hop…

20.08.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Former head of PEN America & human rights and free speech activist, wrote a seminal article on why America is no longer the aspirational goal of millions - the basis for our BoomerLennials podcast posting tomorrow on Substack, Spotify & Apple: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/thursday-hop…

20.08.2025 14:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stuck In The Middle? With You? (With Holly Page and Matt Bai) Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the Right, Here I am, Stuck in the Middle with You.

And here’s the link to the podcast: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/stuck-in-t...

18.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The best TV show I’ve seen in a decade Give ‘Adolescence’ all the Emmys.

Yes. Absolutely yes: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

18.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Next Week: Stuck In The Middle? With You? (With Holly Page and Matt Bai) Coming Thursday, July 17th

Next BoomerLennials: “Stuck In the Middle? With You?” No Labels’ Holly Page and columnist and screenwriter Matt Bai join BoomerLennials for the discussion, posting Thursday, July 17 on Substack, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Here’s the preview: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/next-week-...

16.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Student Becomes the Teacher (with Pete Buttigieg) Pete Buttigieg joins the show to chat with Josh Brener and his former boss Doug Wilson

Here’s the link to our podcast with Pete: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/the-studen...

19.06.2025 16:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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18.06.2025 03:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!🙏

17.06.2025 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@PeteButtigieg and I have been friends for more than 20 years. And now he joins me and Josh Brener for our BoomerLennials podcast, available starting Wednesday evening on Substack, Spotify and Apple. Hope you’ll join us. boomerlennials.substack.com/p/next-week-th…

16.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 203    🔁 44    💬 8    📌 5
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Remembering Emma Lazarus With Mamoudou Athie and Najlla Habibyar

Our BoomerLennials podcast with my longtime friend and former asst. Pete Buttigieg posts next Thursday on Substack. Hope you have time to hear two amazing immigration stories - from an Emmy-nom’d actor and a heroic Afghan-American young leader - on today: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/rememberin...

12.06.2025 16:02 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

God Only Knows. God bless you, Brian Wilson, for the soundtrack of my generation. RIP.

11.06.2025 23:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BoomerLennials is back next Thursday! Remembering Emma Lazarus

For those sick of having immigration being made synonymous with fentanyl, Venezuelan gangs and porous borders, hope you will listen to our BoomerLennials podcast episode posting on Substack, Spotify and Apple on Thursday. Here’s why: boomerlennials.substack.com/p/boomerlenn...

09.06.2025 20:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you so much @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social 🙏💕

24.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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4x Oscar nom Canadian-Am dir Jason Reitman & former U.S. Amb to Canada Jim Blanchard join Josh & Doug on their pod BoomerLennials—

‘WTF Are We Doing Turning One Of Our Best Friends Into An Enemy?’

Josh Brener—Big Head on Silicon Valley—played Doug Wilson in Jason’s film The Front Runner. Reunion!

23.05.2025 19:13 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Hey! BoomerLennials on why the hell are we kicking Canada in the groin & what our longtime friends think about it now on Substack, Spotify & Apple. Oscar-nom Canadian-American director JasonReitman & former US Amb to Canada Jim Blanchard join us.

22.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Democrats In The Wilderness With Brian Goldsmith, Rosa Brooks, and Tyler Pager

@portfoliocarmel.bsky.social

boomerlennials.substack.com/p/democrats-...

10.05.2025 22:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

‘In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing

About the dark times.’

~ Bertolt Brecht

Substantive, insightful, and laced with levity, sharing and comparing perspectives across a generational expanse with guests, the BoomerLennials pod is just such.🎧

27.04.2025 19:13 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you!❤️🙏

27.04.2025 20:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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