/489/ Boomer Death Rattle

On the end of the (very) long 1960s.

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Contributing Editor Lee Jones joins Alex and George to talk through the themes and stories of the month, including MAGA's war on universities, right-populists in power, and culture war. Plus we deal with your questions and comments on: lawfare, video games, and the 'new class'.

• What is TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out)?

• How should we respond to rightist attempts to rewrite the past?

• Why are Angela Merkel and Donald Trump representative of the age, in similar and different ways?

• Are people sick of subversion and just want order?

• What happens as the Boomers leave public life? Can we bracket 1960-2020?

• When should we throw the book at politicians?

Links:

• Trump’s Tariff Gamble and the Decay of the Neoliberal Order, Lee Jones, American Affairs

• The Techno-Populist Convergence, Alex Hochuli, Compact

• How Labor won the preference war (and screwed the Greens), Financial Review

• Saving Britain’s Universities: Academic Freedom, Democracy and Renewal, Lee Jones and Philip Cunliffe, Cieo