Bonus - Reading the Right w/ Richard Beck (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode. Don’t forget to purchase our “Welcome to the Crusades” series before the price increases next week. Subscribers get a 25% discount! Richard Beck, senior writer at n+1 and author of Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, joins the program to talk about the rise of interest in studying the far right since 2016. They discuss liberal critics’ focus on the fascistic style of the current right, how the recent “rise” of the right is more of a political dealignment occurring in both parties, whether Trump has an ideology and the role of ideas in the Trump administration, the pitfalls of trying to cohere such an incoherent figure, the effect of long election cycles on liberal commentators, and whether Trump is just a symptom of a political rupture that can’t be reduced to a single figure. Read Richard’s piece in n+1, “Fret, Hedge, React: On reading the right.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:52.3	That's conversation. To your soul. And the night. Hello, Hello, Prestige Head's and welcome to American Prestige.
0:55.2	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson,
0:59.7	and we are both very excited to welcome to the podcast today.
1:02.6	Richard Beck, Richard's a senior writer at N Plus One, the author of Homeland,
1:07.7	The War on Terror in American Life, which you will actually be hearing an interview
1:12.2	with him by our good friend Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins going forward and we'll let you know more
1:16.8	about that soon. But I invited him on to talk about, or really to talk around a little bit,
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