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Ep. 47: In for a Kanye. In for a Pound

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Ants, a Centaur in His Dragon World, Pull Down by Vanity

Roxanne Jones: When thinking about Kanye today, it's worth looking at some of the parallels between him and Ezra Pound. She says he took his inspiration from old forms to create new works of art. Like many Western intellectuals of this period, she says, Pound became a bit of a devotee of fascism. Jones: He was on the side of the Axis powers in World War II when they broke out.

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