Could you talk about how such an attitude came to be formed by many American intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century? A suburbanite or someone living in a small town can simply attach the “L” word to himself and instantly feel superior to his fellow citizens.Īs you write in the new book, this tradition dates back nearly a century. DRISCOLL: Fred, one of the recurring themes in your book is that liberalism or progressivism or leftism is ultimately about creating a sense of superiority on the cheap. It’s published by Encounter Books, and available from and your local bookstore. He’s a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor at City Journal magazine, and the author of the new book, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class. DRISCOLL: This is Ed Driscoll for PJ, and we’re talking today with Fred Siegel. Transcript of our interview begins on the following page for our many previous podcasts, start here and keep scrolling. Between one of those versions, you should find a format that plays on your system. If the above Flash audio player is not be compatible with your browser, click on the video player below, or click here to be taken directly to YouTube, for an audio-only YouTube clip. Or right click here to download the 4.21 MB lo-fi edition.) Want to download instead of streaming? Right click here to download this interview to your hard drive.
(24 minutes and 34 seconds long 22.5 MB file size. How much of the tradition and the excesses of the early progressives was inherited by Barack Obama?.What shaped the radical environmentalism of Al Gore and other American leftists?.How did the Kennedy assassination unhinge American liberals?.What were the three legal trials that shaped the American left of the 1920s?.Mencken rooted for the Germans to win World War I. What really happened during the Scopes Trial?.When did “Progressivism” become “Liberalism,” and why?.Sinclair Lewis’s absurd yet highly influential It Can’t Happen Here, and its paranoid vision of American fascism rising up from the benign members of the all-American Rotary Clubs and Elks and Moose Lodges.Fortunately, Fred has done yeoman archeological work, bringing the early history of the American left to light once again, in a book that anyone who was enlightened by Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism will also find absolutely intriguing.
But it’s been largely forgotten, since in both academia and the media, the left has largely written the story of American history of the 20 th century.
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