#134 - Frank Furedi - The West Is Crushing Democracy In The Name Of Defending It

Frank is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and the author of twenty-eight books on the cultural forces shaping Western societies, including his most recent, In Defence of Populism. Frank is also a Senior Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Brussels.

In this conversation Frank and I think out loud about: 

• the spirit of populism, why the credentialized class fears it
• how anti-populists restrict democracy while claiming to defend it
• why fascism and populism are not just different but opposite
• why nostalgia underpins cultural continuity
• why 60% of the crisis starts in the schools
• whether assimilation is possible in a normless society
• and why to be a real conservative you must be very radical.

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