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On everyday, private tyranny.

Sohrab Ahmari, one of the editors of Compact Magazine, joins us to talk about his book, Tyranny, Inc. We discuss the sorts of private coercion that are found in the US workplace and marketplace, rather than originate with the state – and how relatively uncommon it is for a conservative like Ahmari to follow that line of critique.

Also: the NY Post's scathing front covers, alliances between socialists and conservatives, the world of JG Ballard's Super Cannes, and critiquing the right from the right and the left from the left.

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Jacob Bucci

Firstly I appreciate guests from other parts of the spectrum, and especially heterodox centrists. Secondly, the Trotskyist turned neocon turned tradcath is a path well trodden by overeducated idealists and it always ends in a dumpster fire. Elites spent decades dismantling the New Deal compromises and are reaping those rewards to this day, so why would they turn on a dime to remake them absent any real pressure from a working class? Idealistic nostalgia for a bygone era? More like economic catastrophe and world war if memory serves me right.

jkjkjkj

Sohrabs response to left claims that compact is a sort of honeypot trap for leftists was excellent, but I think he can provide an even simpler response: Compact is not and does not claims to represent the left. It does not claim to be representing a uniquely Marxist or left liberal or intersectional ideology or critique as a rule. If you agree with compact it's not because you agree with them, but theyre not claiming to be anything they aren't

Blake

Was a good conversation but the hosts should've grilled Ahmari harder on his neocon days. The alienation, the impoverishment and private tyranny that he is making a big deal of now were already developing even in the early 2000's. How come he did not see them, or did not think they were important?

Jesaer215173

There's a name for "a conservative New Dealer." Dixiecrat.