Recall This Book

Recall This Book Team

Recall This Book is a podcast exploring important books on a pressing topic. Each episode focuses on a contemporary problem or event and zeroes in on a book or books that shed light on it. We look backwards to see into the future: we can understand things about the future by choosing texts that shed a sideways light on our present situation, and attempt to shake up the terms of present debate by showing how a topic was approached in earlier times when a different version of this question had come up before. We aim to have lively barstool discussions--a wa...

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Recall This Book

Episodes (69)

Sep 16, 2021 64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth
Sep 2, 2021 63 Brahmin Left 3: Arlie Hochschild (AU, JP)
Aug 19, 2021 62 Brahmin Left 2: Jan-Werner Müller (AU, JP)

Recall This Book

Sep 16, 2021
33 minutes
45 MB

Our Summer series on the Brahmin Left, winding down as Fall approaches, was inspired by our bracing but terrifying interview with Thomas Piketty. It starts from the assumption that a major realignment (or, rather, a “dealignment”) from the class-based politics of the mid-20th century is underway all over Europe and North America–and perhaps worldwide. What caused that? Piketty’s explanation centers on the rise of the Brahmin Left. He maintains that Left parties have abandoned the working-class for an increasingly highly educated voter-base (as if on cue, Nate Cohn recently supplied this analysis). We spoke...

Recall This Book

64 Brahmin Left 4: Adaner and John wrap up with Elizabeth

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