Episode

2/24 Sean Illing: A Liberal Philosopher’s Prescient Warnings for the American Left (M)

February 24, 2017

Sean Illing (@SeanIlling) joins us to discuss his article in Vox, “Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American left.” Who is Richard Rorty? How the Vietnam War led to a split in the left and to more cultural concerns and the price the democrats have paid for abandoning redistributionary economics. The extent to which Trump (and even Bernie Sanders) has proven Rorty’s predictions.

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