OT Contributor Podcast: How Democracy Works

The latest The Old Gods Podcast about how democracy works, how it can break down, and even some disagreement from your hosts about what our priorities should be.

A podcast by Birch Smith and Dan Visnovsky on why the US is losing confidence in the ‘old gods‘ of liberal democracy, the free market, and the open society.

References:

Mark Bray – Antifa
Vox – “They have no allegiance to liberal democracy”: An expert on antifa explains the group
WSJ – Buffalo Mayor Race: Byron Brown Declares Victory Against Socialist India Walton
The Bulwark – The Merrick Garland Theory of Politics
NYT – Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream
The Hill – Shocking poll finds many Americans now want to secede from the United States
Washington Post – Approval of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is more deeply embedded than you might think
James Fearon – Commitment Problems and the Spread of Ethnic Conflict
Associated Press – Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat
The Atlantic – The man who made January 6 possible
Newsweek – Glenn Youngkin Targets Education in Virginia Gov. Race, Says He’d Ban Critical Race Theory
The Hill – Education blunder igniting suburban parents driving McAuliffe panic in Virginia
Berkeley School of Information – Reading Level of State of the Union Addresses
Claremont Review of Books – The Flight 93 Election