Hidden Forces
Description
In Episode 120, Demetri speaks with Michael Lind, a highly accomplished intellectual, writer, and academic about his latest book “The New Class War.” According to Michael, contemporary populism is a kind of convulsive autoimmune response by the body politic to the chronic degenerative disease of oligarchy. Absent a compromise between the classes, full-out war will ensue until one class dominates the other. This episode explores the historical contours of this war and how it may finally be brought to an