Ep 14 - Does The Left Need a Populist Leader? An Interview with Simon Black
Description
This week, Tim (all by himself) brings you a fascinating conversation about populism with political scientist Simon Black. Tim and Simon discuss how the rhetoric and "thin" political strategy of appealing to working people as a class has been so effective on the political right and what the left can do in response.
Find Simon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SimonBlack
What's The Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805077742/whatsthematterwithkansas
Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2759-prisoners-of-the-american-dream
The Great Moving Right Show, an essay, by Stuart Hall
https://newint.org/features/1984/03/05/show
The Hard Road to Renewal by Stuart Hall
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3749-the-hard-road-to-renewal
David Moscrop, Fighting Populism by Understanding Perceptions
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2017/fighting-populism-by-understanding-perceptions/
Emma Jackson, What The Left Can Learn From the "Freedom Convoy" by Emma Jackson
https://breachmedia.ca/what-the-left-can-learn-from-the-freedom-convoy/
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3097-for-a-left-populism