James Kimmel Jr. on revenge politics
Revenge is front and center in American politics as the world witnesses the bitter break up of Elon Musk and US President Trump. Revenge is an addiction says Dr. James Kimmel Jr who knows the impulse to get your own back having spent 20 years in what he calls the business of revenge as a lawyer. Now as a professor in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, he studies revenge and his new book The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction and How to Overcome It is out now. James Kimmel Jr speaks to Jesse.
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