Neoconservative historian and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot recently called on Americans, Republicans in particular, to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November. He just released a book called The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. He’s been writing and tweeting his regrets about not perceiving his white privilege sooner. (That’s not a joke.) Paul Gottfried joins me to discuss what it all means.
About the Guest
Paul Gottfried is professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.
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Book Mentioned
The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, by Max Boot
Selected Books by the Guest
The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium
Fascism: The Career of a Concept
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