274. Understanding the Lindsay Clancy Case

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Nancy explains the tragic case of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who strangled her three kids, to Sarah, who has only been barely paying attention. Nancy has written several stories about mothers who kill their children, including the nonfiction book, To the Bridge, a True Story of Motherhood and Murder. She and Sarah delve into the strong reactions people have to the case, the dangers of postpartum depression and the perils of over-medication, why being too invested in Clancy’s clemency might be a selfish pursuit, and how the criminal justice system might distinguish between the reason for a crime — and the responsibility for it.

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* Nancy likes a chunky guy

* Sarah has “the biggest memoir of the fall”??

* “Sly little kitten …”

* Steinem: The mixed bargain of being the face of a movement

* Betty Friedan was a feisty scrapper

* Gloria and her aviators

* “We gotta get rid of that lavender menace!”

* You can live your child at a firehouse?

* Lithium is a hell of a drug

* Married to the moon: We dig it!

Plus, were the Scientologists right about psychiatric drugs? Tarantino’s late-career genius, and no one asked the Smoke ‘Em girls to sing an early Rolling Stones jam but welp, they did anyway … and much more