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Thank you. Let’s hope we have the courage to use our brains.

Bernstein conviently forgets Arendt writing about the people who-at risk of death for their families if found out-hid jews from the nazis!

Bernstein showed himself to be an academician all the way. And from what I remember reading, Arendt was deeply concerned not simply with lying in politics-but CRIMINALITY entering politics (particularly in america).

Poor bernstein! The criticism of some-if not most(?) of the Jewish councils-must be softened to not "offend" the feelings of the remaining survivors! What about all the time the German jews had to see the likely direction hitler and German society was heading and at least try to get out--but refused to believe that there were plans for their annhilation. Do we not today see the warning signs with america and the likely direction america-and with it the World-and all life on Earth is heading????

If Harari really says that "you are going to be creating 'New Gods'" (14:22min) let me point out that it was actually Nietzsche who said this first!

Science and Physics create all the grand wonders in this world. Religion is the lie that darkens and creates chaos and exerts oppressive control.

This is a brilliant discussion. Thanks to both of you! And Stefan, I think a lot like you on these matters. Folks who are at the peripheries of a lot of these varied discourses of Humanisms -- the postcolonial cultures -- who may go in very different directions when encountered with the ideas of "prehistory."

Someone really needed to write this

Harris will clobber Trump 💙💙💙

The only "Threat" to "Democracy" U S A version is the call fot SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONMY and the right of countries to do business with whomever for their "Best interests" and the real benefits of "One man One vote" without any "ELECTORAL COLLEGE" or bully tactics.

It was so interesting listening to this interview from a month ago. I do think what Harris/Waltz is doing right now is emotional re-education. Hopefully it will start reaching the base. It is already reaching the independents and moderate Republicans. I have hope again.

She sounds like she is in a can.

I got a crush on her!

Hey, A lively video🙌! I'm not really sure if it is the best time to ask but, I was wondering if I could help you create a better distribution by working on post-production like better storytelling through Edits, Keywords, think catchy intros and outros, or even some engaging short clips! Would love to chat if you're interested and keep creating good content:)

Remember Elagabilus

3 weeks later, we now have a candidate who is a star with a positive message ❤

In short, TM said: All I have to do is my Black job 😊

Try as he might, Donald Trump can't blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Who ever thought an American bleeding out from a disastrous pregnancy would have to be flown to safety in her own country? Politicians have no place in our reproductive health care decisions. None.

Ruth has helped many of us in regard to dictator’s and how they got there. Thank you Ruth!

Democracy? Other forms of government are worse. Trump will implement Project 2025, the Fascist authoritarian agenda of the super rich and ultra-right wing Catholics. They want to eliminate the Department of Education, cut Social Security and Medicare; they intend to establish a Paternalistic white Christian nation. This means racism and Fascism are the order of the day. Trump personally will mine the nation for all the money he can loot, like Putin in Russia. Most of his promises will mot ne kept, except to cut the taxes of the rich. The middle class will languish. The poor will starve.

My siblings who are Trumpist Fundamentalist Christians may recognize Trump’s imperfections but their ultimate goal is to install a theocracy which is the aim of Project 2025. They fail to realize how extreme a theocratic state may become because it will be framed by the quality and aims of the leaders. Those in power often change and become endeared to all of that power which then changes them.

"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't." Bill Moyers

She is right🗽🇺🇲💙🛡

52:01 R B-G: "one of the saddest things that authoritarianism does, it puts u in situations where u feel u hav to betray yorself & yor loved ones. Democracy will nvr ask u to do that."

great interview Ulrich. I liked how u engaged w/ yor guest the wonderful Ruth Ben-Ghiat

The most existential threat to democracy besides Donald Trump Is The Heritage Foundation Project 2025. The threat of these two dastardly entities will place the entire world at risk. Donald Trump touts a divisive campus of ignorance and hate. Donald Trump cannot be trusted again as president. We're still living those residuals... This is a dangerously-lethal combination: Donald Trump + The Heritage Foundation Project 2025 + MAGA-morons = an authoritarian hell which will touch the entire world! VOTE BLUE AND CONTINUE TO VOTE BLUE💙 until we have successfully voted MAGA extremism and Donald Trump out and into the cesspool where they belong - 💙💙💙💙💙

We're not a Democracy and we don't want a Democracy.

Ben-Ghiat’s analysis is so clear and insightfully, free of bias. I can’t say enough, “thank you!”

I thank Ruth Ben-Ghiat for her hopeful and authentic approach to a very important issue threat to democracy today, not just in America, but globally. Keep up the excellent work!

She's socialist transmental democratic party shill.

Hannah Aren't in her books on the rise of totalitarianism seems to have a much better grasp on that subject than you. You seem to conveniently look away from the inherent totalitarianism baked in to the DNA of leftist political organs. The democrat party owned and operated the plantation system of the old south. They created the chattel caste which has become a multi-Generational curse for many. The managerial caste is prolific with psychotic manipulation exhibitionism also prevalent in the democrat left. They have become the home of that managerial class and modern plantation mentalities elites.

Bernstein, Epstein, Weinstein. They all are going to save the world...

speak on enya again.

Muchas gracias desde Chile democrático

Hello, I am from Spain learning about Chinese American literature.

Gracias mil

Gracias, gracias ,,, un gusto verlos compartir

Thank you so much. From Chile

I love Maira and washing dishes. And watching clouds.

Right out of the gate, White Supremacy is mentioned. Sorry, Im out. Bye!

I would have liked to hear more from Peter Brooks.

She stifled and hoarded her mother's great accomplishments that should have been shared with the world. Diane was a crown jewel in the world of artisan accomplishments. Thanks for posting.

Where are we now..? 🤕

I am reading Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. He mentions Jane Johnson Schoolcraft creating the term Native Inland Sea, that was then used by James Fenimore Cooper in his book title, The Pathfinder: The Inland Sea. I'm exploring both writers and am happy to discover this podcast as a first step in learning more about Ms. Schoolcraft and her poetry

BRAVO!!!

Really? why? He says much the same about hierarchies’ proclivity to corrupt and decline into tyranny. Have you actually read any of his books, watched any of hundreds of hours of lectures, debates and interview-conversations? Or are you ‘relying’ on second, third … hand caricatures?

Very interesting listening to this in January 2023. It's only had 336 views in 4 years..... if only more people had heard it! Ms. Ben-Ghiat deserves a large audience.

Ulrich Baer - I find it interesting that you named this large series, "Free Speech." I read in your bio, this: "deepens his widely debated defense of the university’s right and obligation to arbitrate discourse (rather than surrender to an absolutist, anything-goes approach to speech) he first made in 2017 in The New York Times." - this sounds a bit not-so-free speech like Ulrich. Is this a case of another leftist using deceptive language, to disguise the true nature of their radical ideology? Whatever the case, the contradiction between the titles of your videos, and the contradictory viewpoint as revealed in your bio, is confusing and suspect.

White leftists from Yale & Harvard, or both, are unashamed and occupy the forefront of greed & imagined virtue. They'll argue that your opportunities should be spared for those more diverse. Nobody took the spots that they worked for, so they couldn't give a damn about yours.

This is a wonderful examination of Levi Strauss……. Thank you for yet another gift to contemplate. Your Primo Levian allusion led me to find my old copy of The Periodic Table which I’ll re-read differently …………much gratitude for these offerings. Miss Jenny.