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Animal Spirits

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

CHAPTER

The Dark Side of Vitalism

Is vitalism still the mark of the United States in our late imperial period today? Well, I think that among policy elites and so-called thought leaders, there's a great yearning for the kind of vitality that is imagined comes from the waging of righteous war. And at the present, if we're looking around for that sort of vitalist and contemporary America, we need to look no farther than the neoconservative ideologues who are pushing the proxy war in Ukraine.

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