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Should tell you this but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show but since I'm the announcer they told me so I am telling you

Don't be fooled the real Eric's in jail

Welcome, thank you Todd. Thank you very much. Hey folks

This is a serious program ignore the announcer because we talk about serious issues on this program sometimes with some some levity

Nonetheless serious issues for example today I

Get to have a conversation you get to listen in with the author of a brand new book

I immediately spotted this book as vital and important it is titled the new class war

Saving democracy from the managerial elite the author Michael Lindes with me

He is the author of many many books even books of poetry

He's a frequent contributor to the New York Times financial Times

National interest foreign policy. He's taught at Harvard what John Hopkins

He's been an editor a star writer for the New Yorker Harper's the New Republic the National interest

Sounds like somebody I'd love to get in the studio Michael would you come into the studio sometime?

I'm here really oh well then fascinating how convenient

I when I read the review of your book. I just thought this is something I'm so

interested in so for people tuning in please tell my audience

What do you mean when you say the new class war saving democracy from the managerial elite?

What do you mean? Well, I argue that a number of seemingly unrelated phenomena the election of Donald Trump in the United States

the Brexit vote and all of the turmoil that caused in Britain

the revolt of the yellow jackets in France and a lot of what are called populist rebellions

on both sides of the Atlantic

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