ABOUT THIS EPISODE
From the Dutch in the 1600s to Trump and Pauline Hanson in Australia today, what connects them is a backlash against revolutions, one of which is taking place right now. Our special guest, Fareed Zakaria from CNN and the Washington Post, tries to find the answers, including how AI might change the world we live in.
Fareed is the author of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present. In this episode of Putschcast, the conversation follows the arc of the book: the Dutch Republic and the invention of modern liberalism, the French Revolution that failed on its own terms, the Industrial Revolution's real legacy of social democracy, and the present day shift from left vs right to open vs closed.
Along the way, why Donald Trump reminds Fareed of the godmen of his childhood, why no one saw Pauline Hanson's comeback in Australian politics coming, and why AI will force the same reckoning we had 150 years ago, when the steam engine changed the world.
"The wave will not go away magically," Fareed says, just before US voters make important decisions in the Mid-terms. "We have to present a powerful, compelling articulation of political ideas."
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TRANSCRIPT 🔗
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Coming up on Putschcast.
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Pauline Hansen was telling you, I'll take you back to what Australia looked like when you were young.
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So the left has always had a problem here because the left has this sort of six-point program, and the right is like, No, I'm just gonna take you back to the good old days.
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It's the Garden of Eden versus a policy proposal.
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