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An Afternoon with a Former Progressive

by Lou Segal

Mar 27, 2024
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Best-selling author and former progressive, Michael Shellenberger, at the Reagan Ranch Center on March 15, 2024. Photo: Christy Lozano

Longtime Liberal Pulls a Political 180

The Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara recently hosted best-selling author Michael Shellenberger (“San Fransicko, “Apocalypse Never”), and founder of Substack newsletter “

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