"Ideological Dorks"

“Your hero economists are my hero economists.”We talk about a variety of topics on this episode, including cultural conservativism and libertarianism, whether libertarians are more at home on the right or left, Goldberg’s 2009 book, Liberal Fascism, and the rise of outsider candidates on the political right and what they may (or may not) be signalling about the preferences of the electorate.Show Notes and Further ReadingGoldberg’s books, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (2013) and Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change (2009).Charles C. W. Cooke’s new book The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right’s Future (2015).The History News Network’s Symposium on Liberal Fascism.David Oshinsky’s New York Times review of Liberal Fascism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.