"American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
January 12, 2023
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"American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Summary
<p>In this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the French School of Economic Warfare and sanctions against Russia; how asset price declines threaten US pensions, electric replace fossil fuel private cars because of profit motive, instead of for a rational transportation policy; US police in elementary schools: bad for students, parents, teachers and even police; honoring Staughton Lynd, US radical academic and labor organizer who died on 11/18/22. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews <strong>Adam Hochschild</strong>, author of <em>"American Midnight"</em> how 1917-1921 was a US rehearsal for a parallel right-wing surge of recent years.</p>
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