» Our President’s Cognitive Decline (mp3) "Jacob Weisberg talks to Sharon Begley of Stat News about Donald Trump’s cognitive decline. Is it just a matter of age, or is something else going on?"

» Germany - Anxious Giant (mp3) BBC4: "With angst over European security growing, why is Germany such a reluctant military power? Chris Bowlby discovers how German pacifism has grown since WWII." Read on

» The American Populists BBC 4: "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what, in C19th America's Gilded Age, was one of the most significant protest movements since the Civil War with repercussions well into C20th. Farmers in the South and Midwest felt ignored by the urban and industrial elites who were thriving as the farmers suffered droughts and low prices. The farmers were politically and physically isolated. As one man wrote on his abandoned farm, 'two hundred and fifty miles to the nearest post office, one hundred miles to wood, twenty miles to water, six inches to Hell'." Read on

Free Speech - Oxygen of Freedom » mp3 | txt : Free Speech 1 - Oxygen of Freedom » mp3 | txt : Free Speech 2 - I'm Offended » mp3 | txt : Free Speech 3 - Respect Me, Respect My Religion » mp3 | txt : Free Speech 4 - Media We Need » mp3 | txt : Free Speech 5 - Big Brother is Watching

BBC4: "Timothy Garton Ash introduces the subject of freedom of speech and why it is more important than ever in today's internet-connected world. Professor Garton Ash sets out the arguments for why we need free speech, including for the sake of diversity, good governance and the search for truth. He argues that as smartphones and the web change our communications, we need a set of principles which govern free speech more than ever as this essential human right comes under attack. Drawing on research behind his book on the subject, he identifies three main threats. The first is what he calls the heckler's veto: if you shout loudly enough you can restrict free speech. The second is the offensiveness veto: if you cry 'I'm offended' you can restrict free speech. The third is the assassin's veto: if you say that, we will kill you."

Justin Gest: The New Minority
White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality The first book to present a comprehensive cross-national analysis of white working class alienation in the United Kingdom and the United States
Survey research shows that Radical Right support is driven by a sense of deprivation -- the loss of social status and political importance
Considers the rise of Donald Trump, UKIP, and the European Far Right
» thenewminority.net

Interviews with Justin Gest: » 2017-06-06, Cape Up Podcast (mp3) » 2016-11-21, London School of Economics and Political Science (mp3)

James Q. Whitman: Hitler’s American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law tlv1.fm: "Why did the Nazis admire America? Yale University law professor James Q. Whitman started out asking why Hitler in Mein Kampf, and other Nazis in the 1930s, referred to American legal precedents on numerous occasions. What he discovered in the archives surprised him, and may shock readers of his book – or any American. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, raises existentially uncomfortable questions about the sources of racial laws in Nazi Germany and the US." Read on

» Hitlers Juristen studierten Rassismus in Amerika » Interviews with James Q. Whitman: 2017-05-09, The Tel Aviv Review

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