Studying the Far Right
On this episode of American Prestige, Benji Rolsky on how the study of the far right might be broken.
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Studying the Far Right w/ Benji Rolsky | American Prestige
Historian Benji Rolsky speaks with Danny about how others in their profession have thought about the far right, a subset of history which has expanded greatly in the last decade or so. They explore how the study of the far right might be "broken", anti-fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, the episodic nature of this field, and how Trump might have changed the historiography.
Read Benji's piece "Why the Study of the Right is Broken": Part 1 and Part 2.
Also check out his book The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond.
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Donald Trump arrives at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28.
(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)On this episode of American Prestige, historian Benji Rolsky speaks with Danny about how others in their profession have thought about the far right, a subset of history that has expanded greatly in the last decade or so. They explore how the study of the far right might be “broken,” anti-fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, the episodic nature of this field, and how Trump might have changed the historiography.
Read Benji’s piece “Why the Study of the Right is Broken”: Part 1 and Part 2. You can also check out his book The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
How the New Deal Invented the National Security State w/ Andrew Preston / American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with historian Andrew Preston about the origins and development of the American national security state as we know it. They discuss the original meaning of “national security” in the early days of the republic; the idea of free security; the New Deal and the relationship between social security and national security; World War II, the Cold War, and the expansion of the security state; liberalism and American empire; and what national security looks like moving forward.
Be sure to grab a copy of Andrew’s book on the subject, Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security.
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