Harry Potter, WWII Memory, and Cultural Forgetting

In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rod Dreher about what he describes as the 'Weimarisation of the West' – an increasingly atomised and economically precarious society that valorises transgression for its own sake. We also discussed whether World War II still has a central place in the cultural imagination, why the Online Right puts so much emphasis on humour, and the ongoing civil unrest in Minnesota. 

• Article in 'The Point' on heteropessimism
• 'The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up'
• Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes
• Fuentes on Red Scare
• Rod's Substack post on nurses' comments on ICE agents
• 'The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons'
• Ezra Klein on Trump

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