{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/6985d4fb5ad8bc4f7c80cd83?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Weimar America?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/1770377893408-a3110ef5-8fa6-4684-834b-0177aed740c5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rod Dreher about what he describes as the 'Weimarisation of the West' – an increasingly atomised and economically precarious society that valorises transgression for its own sake. We also discussed whether World War II still has a central place in the cultural imagination, why the Online Right puts so much emphasis on humour, and the ongoing civil unrest in Minnesota.&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/doomers-in-love/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Article in 'The Point' on heteropessimism</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/opinion/harry-potter-millenials-liberalism.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">'The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up'</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBB0D4tf1Y\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10NK8C9OQsI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fuentes on Red Scare</a></li><li><a href=\"https://roddreher.substack.com/p/how-afraid-of-nurses-should-we-be\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rod's Substack post on nurses' comments on ICE agents</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-the-woke-right-is-coming\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">'The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons'</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ezra Klein on Trump</a></li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Louise Perry"}