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Unraveling Christopher Lasch's Minimal Self with Elijah Emery

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The Cultural History of the Left

The social base of populism just was completely eviscerated and it was linked to what Brian was running on in 1896 the first time, which is free silver. So by the time that FDR comes in, basically from not exactly from the urban wing of the party but from a much more urban wing ofthe party. And yet one of the things I find so fascinating about WASH's cultural histories of the left is that he does kind of see that in the 80s, in the late 80s with the shift in suburbanization. That's the brilliance of cultural narcissism as it takes, you know, social fordianism and pairs it with political economic analysis.

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