America Last
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“As a big fan of the pod, and a regular listener, I am compelled to weigh in on the America Last episode with Jacob Heilbrun. Lots of fascinating insights — and characters I was not familiar with— BUT how do you do an entire show about right wing infatuation with fascist authoritarians in the 1930’s onward without mentioning the simultaneous left wing infatuations with Communist authoritarians throughout the same period (Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc.) Come on guys, you know this history— Lincoln Steffins, the Webbs, Duranty, Herbert Mathews— a long history of white washing, apologizing for and even glorifying dictators whose abuses and repression were as awful as any of the fascists celebrated on the right. Doesnt this suggest that the phenomenon you were exploring is not distinct to right wing ideology but a larger yearning for authoritarianism during times of economic and political chaos that cuts across ideological lines? (Check out, if you need a refresher, Robert Conquest’s book, The Great Purge, about the Soviet show trials of the 30’s— and all the liberals in the west who tried to justify them.)”
An inquiring journo via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/19/24
More reviews of Know Your Enemy
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“A normal conversation between leftists and right wing people is a breath of fresh air”
wikimedia fan via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/22/20
“It’s a show about conservatism, exploring it from the left. It’s serious about its subject and serious about being a podcast. It’s what an excellent op ed contribution should be, from any political quarter. Episodes are a little long, but unlike other longish podcasts, it does not ramble. It...”Read full review »
Buffalo Nels via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/25/20
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“so we don’t have to, braver than the troops”
ezra_klein_84 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/31/19
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