This Is Fine

Welcome to This Is Fine, episode 1.2: argumentum ad populum. Thank you very much for listening, Finers. In this week’s podcast, we share our origin story in Southern California; explore what populism is and if it can turn left (verdict: not an ambi-turner); make the case that a Nazi political theorist is not in the best position to diagnose liberalism's faults; and sketch out our visions of protest in the Trump era. Articles discussed in this episode: Jedediah Purdy, "Populism's Two Paths" in The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/the-two-populisms/ Malloy Owen, "Don't Mourn, Repoliticize" in The Point Magazine https://thepointmag.com/2016/politics/dont-mourn-repoliticize