37 min listen
Chris Lehmann on Republican Plans for 2023, plus Adam Hochschild on Repression in WWI America
Chris Lehmann on Republican Plans for 2023, plus Adam Hochschild on Repression in WWI America
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
What will Republicans do if they win control of the House in the midterms? Now they’ve said something about that, officially: they call it their “Commitment to America.” Chris Lehmann calls it “a grab bag of cultural resentments papering over an anemic policy wish list.”Also: The Trump years are not the only time American democracy has been threatened; the World War One years, when Democrat Woodrow Wilson was president, were another. That’s what Adam Hochschild argues –his new book is “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.”Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Released:
Oct 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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