On political decline and realignment.
The editor of American Affairs joins us to discuss the decay of conservatism and we ask whether this decay doesn't apply to other parts of the political spectrum too. Is today's 'class struggle' really just between the upper-middle class and the elite? And we discuss the 'late-Soviet' USA - the sense of decline embodied in the gerontocracy of the ruling class.
Readings:
/439/ We Can Shape Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus
/438/ You Are Being Enlisted into the Culture War ft. Andrew Hartman
/437/ Climate Change Is Not an Information Problem ft. Holly Buck (sample)
/436/ Slovakia's Four World Directions ft. Dominik Zelinsky
UNLOCKED: /419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford
/435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII (sample)
/434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)
/433/ Aufhebonus Bonus – August 2024 (sample)
/432/ Median Left Thought and its Monsters ft. Ben Burgis (sample)
/431/ The Myth of Monolithic China ft. Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri
/430/ Welcome to the Tourist Age ft. Marco d'Eramo
/429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
/427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
/426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/425/ Reading Club: Russia's Imitation Democracy (sample)
/424/ Aufhebonus Bonus - July 2024 (sample)
/423/ Who Wants the 'Worst Job' in France? ft. Charles Devellennes
/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown
/421/ Who Are the Wrong Ukrainians? ft. Volodymyr Ishchenko
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