New episodes of Failed State Update:
Episode #9: The Fascists Are Telling Us Who They Are (June 18, 2020)
Episode #10: Police Cops! (June 23, 2020)
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Illustration: David Dees (1958-2020)
Jared Yates Sexton is an American author, political commentator, and an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. On episode 9 of Failed State Update, we discussed conspiracy theories: how they work, who they affect, and how they embolden fascist movements. His book American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People comes out in September.
In this episode of the newsletter, Jared and I continue the discussion we began on episode 9 of the podcast.
JARED YATES SEXTON: My last book was The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, which is all about the persona politics and masculine insecurity leading to fascism. The one that's getting ready to come out is called American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People, which is basically American history without exceptionalism. It gets into all the myths of our history that have basically led to now.
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