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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Matthew Karp, associate professor at Princeton University, contributing editor at Jacobin, and author of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his essay, "History As End" in Harper's Magazine.
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Emily Jashinsky didn’t challenge Matthew Karp the way she should have.
For example, he got away with claiming that, after the American Revolution, its libertarian ideals were not applied to the issue of slavery. In fact there was a wave of emancipation running from north to south, which stalled halfway because there were so many slaves in the southern states and nobody knew what to do about them.
She didn’t push back on Karl Marx (obsolete since the 1860s) or minimum wages (put people out of work, cut the bottom rungs off the economic ladder) or unions (ditto).
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This was a tough one to listen to. So many of Matthew's premises are wrong that his analysis is bound to be wrong. I was hoping for stronger pushback.