A Profile of the Dark Force Behind the Indiscriminate Roundup of Immigrants and the Revival of the Political Paranoia of the “Red Scare”
We begin with the possibility that the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles might be sidelined after her embarrassing tell-all interview with Chris Whipple in Vanity Fair and that, as a result, the Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller might gain more power and influence although he is arguably already the second most powerful person in the White House. Joining us for a profile of the dark force behind the indiscriminate roundup of immigrants and the revival of the paranoid politics of the McCarthy “Red Scare” era is Greg Sargent, a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and is the author, most recently, of An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics. We discuss his latest article at The New Republic, “Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State.”
With Young Americans Rejecting Capitalism, a Deep Dive Into the History of Capitalism
Then, since a majority of young Americans reject today’s capitalism, we will do a deep dive into the history of capitalism which is more of a fact of life than an ideology with the irony that the former Communist Soviet Union now Russia and today’s Communist China are among the most ruthless, unequal and rapacious capitalist societies on earth. Joining us is Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell Professor of History, co-chair of the Program on the Study of Capitalism, and co-chair of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University. He has written widely on the economic, social, and political history of capitalism. His book Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Prize, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. His new book, just out, is Capitalism: A Global History.