“This is a truly wonderful and timely series of podcasts. Beautifully produced and researched, Wilfred Frost deftly weaves together these archive gems. What’s remarkable is - as Frost Jr observes - how much resonates with today’s fractured US landscape, on race and women and culture wars. What’s striking however is how civilised the discourse usually is: opponents allow each other the time to speak and respectfully hear each other out, and answer in a way that is substantive and illuminating. No doubt this says much about David Frost’s style - my god he’s good - but it also underlines how debased things have become these past four years. Weirdly though I find this comparison cause for optimism: a divided America is nothing new, and indeed arguably the tensions currently on display are those that are absolutely embedded in the “American experiment”. Things got better then, and surely we have to believe that they will get better now - the whole point of democracy is that it can respond to a fever and apply the necessary remedy before things get out of hand.
Recommended!”
Anklemania via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
01/25/21