Resistance Reads Podcast E16 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night follows an American playwright who becomes one of the most effective Nazi propagandists of World War II — while secretly working as an American spy. But here's the question the book forces you to sit with: does the spying matter if the propaganda worked?

Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom explore the psychology of propaganda, the Nuremberg trials, why satire fails against fascism, the relationship between art and political resistance, and what Vonnegut's darkest novel has to say about the world right now.

You are what you pretend to be. So what does that mean when what you're pretending to be is a Nazi?

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