Episode 495
Democracy's 'Shadow'
Zack Beauchamp explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom.
July 18, 202428m 39s
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Show Notes
Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), explores the resistance to democratic ideals that has always accompanied progress toward greater freedom and how that reactionary movement is active here and around the world.
Topics
democracyantidemocraticpoliticsreactionaryzack_beauchamplocal_wnycinternational_affairsnational_politicsinternational_politics