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The Good Fight

Helen Pluckrose

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7963 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Helen Pluckrose, editor of Areo Magazine and one of the perpetrators of the “Sokal Squared” hoax, about her opposition to the postmodern turn of parts of the left, whether a form of liberal universalism is feasible, and how to call out the shortcomings of the left without becoming a tool of the right.. Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk This podcast was made in collaboration with New America. Podcast production by John T. Williams. This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: Express VPN, take back your Internet privacy today. Find out how you can get 3 months free at expressvpn.com/goodfight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3

I don't want left liberals to get so worried about being associated with the right

0:40.0

that they are defending or minimizing problems on the left if you speak out it should be really

0:46.7

clear to any honest person that this is not the same thing.

0:50.5

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

0:54.0

Welcome to the podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can be to for

0:58.8

Italian populists like Donald Trump over the next four years and the next 40.

1:05.0

Sometimes something strange happens in politics where the fundamentals of a situation

1:11.0

seem to point in one direction.

1:16.1

The fundamentals of the situation for a long time in Britain

1:19.2

have pointed in the direction of Northern Ireland being a huge obstacle to the kind of Brexit deal that Theresa May's

1:27.6

government is trying to put in place because nobody wants to accept a hard border on the Irish continent,

1:36.0

but unless you have some real border between the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union,

1:41.0

it is hard to see how Britain could ever exit the single market. It is also really

1:47.4

hard to see how Donald Trump can keep getting away with it. How it is that he pays of porn stars

1:54.7

and apparently was trying to build a Trump tower in Moscow

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