49 min
Who Went Nazi... And Who Will? Essay Questions
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- Cultura y sociedad
In this little wrap-up of Season 2, Joe & Josh discuss Dorothy Thompson's famous 1941 Harper's essay "Who Goes Nazi?" In it, Thompson asked readers to look around the room at their next dinner party and guess who would collaborate with a fascist government in the United States. This piece, and the grim parlor game it describes, made the rounds on social media immediately before and after Donald Trump's election, and it has a lot to say about the personality types that are attracted to far-right movements, and maps pretty well on to the profiles we've read this season of major Alt-Right figures.
We also tease our topic for Season 3, which hopefully will get to record before the world actually ends.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, 1941
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
Let us know what you think: essayquestionspodcast@gmail.com
In this little wrap-up of Season 2, Joe & Josh discuss Dorothy Thompson's famous 1941 Harper's essay "Who Goes Nazi?" In it, Thompson asked readers to look around the room at their next dinner party and guess who would collaborate with a fascist government in the United States. This piece, and the grim parlor game it describes, made the rounds on social media immediately before and after Donald Trump's election, and it has a lot to say about the personality types that are attracted to far-right movements, and maps pretty well on to the profiles we've read this season of major Alt-Right figures.
We also tease our topic for Season 3, which hopefully will get to record before the world actually ends.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, 1941
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
Let us know what you think: essayquestionspodcast@gmail.com
49 min