Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. In this episode, Vincent Brown (History professor at Harvard) last spoke with us about his own work on Caribbean slave revolts; his many other well known projects include the recent PBS series The Bigger Picture.
What exactly happened and will happen? Well, Vince has sympathy for Bernie Sanders Boston Globe op-ed about the Democrat’s neglect of working-class and Gabriel Wynant’s “Exit Right” abut the need to remake left-wing politics. He also takes seriously Thomas Pikkety’s theory of the rise of “Brahmin Left“. That’s a topic explored in the Recall This Book series on the Brahmin left ( Jan-Werner Muller, Matthew Karp and Thomas Piketty).
Any hopeful note to end on? Well, bad government breeds righteous opposition. From Ronald Reagan we got…Minor Threat and the Bad Brains.
Listen to other What Just Happened? conversations with economist Mark Blyth and sociologist David Cunningham.
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