844 Jared Yates Sexton

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jared Yates Sexton is the author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, Currently, he serves as an associate professor of writing at Georgia Southern University and is the co-host of The Muckrake Political Podcast.

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From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a

journey through the history of the United States, from the nation’s founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we’ve always told ourselves. In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn’t who we are. In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget. Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.

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0:00.0	I'm Pete Dominick, let's do it.
0:09.6	Hello my friends and happy Friday to you.
0:11.9	This is the Friday show which means I don't do a big preamble or a news opening because
0:16.3	the night before I was partying with my friends at the stand up happy hour hang out subscribers
0:22.1	only.
0:23.1	So if you're not a subscriber sign up now and you'll get an email link with all the details
0:26.9	you need to join us to be a part of our community.
0:29.5	So therefore the Friday show is usually just my interview with one or two guests.
0:33.8	And today I've got the great Jared Gates section joining me again.
0:37.8	Jared is an Indian a hosier by birth.
0:40.2	He's a political analyst.
0:41.2	He's the co-host of the Muckrake podcast.
0:43.5	He's the author of the Midnight Kingdom, a history of power paranoia and the coming crisis.
0:48.5	That's his most recent book at least.
0:50.6	Before that he wrote an amazing book called American Rule and you can read his sub-stack
0:56.2	dispatches from a collapsing state, follow him on Twitter at J.Y.
1:00.0	Sexton and let him know you heard him here on stand up.
1:03.1	Jared's become a really good friend of mine and I always love our conversations.
1:07.1	I think you're going to like today's we cover a lot of ground not just politics but our
1:11.7	six society and how we can get better.
1:14.1	So thanks for listening.
1:15.1	Let me know what you like and don't email me.
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