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Steve Hayward sits down with author Fred Siegel about a wide range of topics, from Trump and the Democrats, to how to think about leading intellectuals including H.L. Mencken, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Mark Lilla, and the problems of the coastal elites in California and New York.
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If Chuck Schumer is discovering the hard way that the Left eats its own, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving subject.
When he smeared a civil rights hero like judicial nominee Charles W. Pickering as a racist, this was the sleaziest thing I have ever seen in the Senate.
Schumer maybe brilliant, but he is a brilliant sociopath.
Agree and Schumer is a step up from Harry Reid.
Great podcast! I’m also a big fan of Fred’s son Harry, whom I hear on the John Batchelor Show. (I imagine I agree with his dad more, but Harry is just as dedicated to fairness, it seems to me.)
Thanks for keeping the Power Line podcast glowing, Steve.
Great podcast. I learned an enormous amount. I would enjoy listening to Siegel for hours. He drops bit of accumulated knowledge like a tree dropping leaves in autumn, but his are invaluable.
I would love to hear someone like @michaelgraham who loves Mencken give a counter/defense to the view expressed here about the journalist from Baltimore.
While I’ve read some of Mencken’s essays, I have not read enough to know if I agree with Fred’s assessment of his views.
Fred Siegel was my history professor many eons ago. Good hearing his voice again.
I had a friend who didn’t want to take his course cause she heard he was a leftist. I assured her she had nothing to worry about. At that point Professor Siegel, like many of the best thinkers, was a former leftist.
This is a major focus of his book Revolt of the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, which I have not read but have heard discussed in detail. H.G. Wells figures prominently as well. You might want to take a look.
That is, Revolt Against the Masses.