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A Second Civil War? (w/ Jamelle Bouie)
🕑 Added 2022-03-07 22:16:26 +0000 UTCThe past few months have seen much talk of a "second Civil War" in the United States or a "national divorce" between red states and blue states. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie joins Matt and Sam to discuss why the analogy to the Civil War fails, what such rhetoric does for those who deploy it, and what the challenges really are to a better politics in America.
Reading:
Jamelle Bouie, "Why We Are Not Facing the Prospect of a Second Civil War," New York Times, Feb 15, 2022
Michelle Goldberg, "Are We Really Facing a Second Civil War?" New York Times, Jan 6, 2022
Nate Hochman, "Let's Stay Together," Spectator, January 2, 2022
Michael Anton, "Right Flight: The War Between the States," Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2021
Helen Andrews, "Reconstruction Revisionism," American Conservative, Dec 11, 2021
Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided (University of Chicago, 1959)
Chris Hayes, "The New Abolitionism," The Nation, April 22, 2014.
Comments
Has anyone listened to The Claremont Institute's response to this episode on their podcast? Their podcast name is the American Mind and the episode is titled "Do You Know the Enemy?" I am curious to hear other's opinion on their response. I am not the most well read but the Claremont institute representatives seem to latch on to rather small, hyper specific examples and then build strawmen to argue against. Which results in an apparently naïve arguments that lack nuance and understanding of what the other side is saying.
V K
Excellent episode, especially the last twenty minutes or so.
