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Fred Siegel Explains It All

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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.

Host:
Steve Hayward
Guest:
FSFred Siegel

Discussion (8)

  • Taras@Taras

    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.

  • Leslie Watkins@LeslieWatkins

    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.

  • Lois Lane@LoisLane

    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.

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