russell banks a great american writer

Excellent conversation, excellent book.

I have read Haywire Brooke hayward's book & must say she is a survivor she lost her Mother & Sister Bridget to suicide & a few years ago her brother Bill shot himself & died how did she manage to be so normal with a family riddled with mental illness!!

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A very interesting interview.

How did Sebald come to trust Carole Angier?

Elinor Glyn, didn't invent the "IT" girl she observed and highlighted something that has been around for a long time. Some people have charisma. This applies to males and females. The aspect Elinor Glyn highlighted was sexual charisma. The science behind why some people have sexual charisma is explained in the recently published book "Why Some People are not Attracted to Members of the Opposite Sex" by John Hibbert. The explanation is in Chapter 4 "Sexual Charisma" but the whole book should be read to understand Chapter 4.

Great video! Keep it up fellas.

Could they make Bellow and more boring?

I LOVE their EMPIRE podcast, its so addictive and infromative..❤

Very interesting and useful talk, thank you both.

very cool and intellectual performance, not boring at all !

It a fan of ol Danny Goldberg after what he did to Kurt in the end. Fake af.

Great interview. Thanks for sharing. Will certainly buy the book 🙂

Kurt knew the end was coming

Danny Gold Digger. What a worthless, nothing-burger book. What's worse, it's a white-wash of history. Fuck this guy and his shitty book.

Very nice remembrance and discussion of one of the greatest of all American writers. Unfortunate that Atlas sounds like an adult from Peanuts. Can't believe no one did anything about his microphone or the way he was speaking into it to make him at least slightly easier to understand

So glad my feed decided to show me this fantastic interview. I need to find time for the whole of Angier's "Speak, Silence."

Cant help but think Bing had a skill in living his life in a Mindful way. His life seems to personify Mindfulness

Danny Goldberg is an upstanding honest person

Loves this! I teach history and will use this talk in my lessons!

It was mined in Kollur of south India. Golconda is not a place name (nor of a mine) but in this context refers to the Muslim rulers of the Telugu country…even Dalrymple can be in error. The right place for the Kohinoor is in a museum in Hyderabad.

god caws is painful and unnecessarily rude

Ideological and polemical sound very pejorative. Writing as though women actually are human beings isn’t communism.

Interesting discussion, and I love how they talked about Sonny's love of the American Songbook.Monk,among many others,also had that same love for Irving Berlin and some of the other great songwriters of the era.As Archie Shepp and Jimmy Heath said,"We listened to the same radio"

I'm completely obsessed by Wilson's perception on Lawrence. She's brillinat. Can't wait to read her book.

This rude interviewer could care less.... he’s terrible

i agree with the interviewer that the choice of the name Malabar was spiritually significant in terms of regenerative farming et el

Please fix the audio

Maybe the folk at PragerU should read Blight's bio.

It's rather easy to make J. Edgar Hoover into a rogue actor. Thank goodness Gage's bio subverts that rhetoric.

Just Marvellous ! Thank you! I’m so grateful to W.Darlymple and other illustrious and honest historians of his ilk retelling historical truths that we should know. I love the Empire podcast on Spotify hosted by the knowledgeable and entertaining Anita Anand and William Darlymple.

Humphrey opined in the middle 1960s: “If we won’t fight the Communists in Saigon, we may have to fight them in Honolulu or San Francisco.” George McGovern, in an interview not long before he died, said that Humphrey had told him that he -- Humphrey -- genuinely supported our involvement in Vietnam.

Brilliant

One things for sure, India is as screwed and hopelessly mired in caste, when Gandhi was around and today.

Where is volume 3, Mr. Giddins? Please!

GG still going strong

A tantalising interview ruined by constant video glitches. Needs patching up.

Since the end of WW2, the Presidents and congresses of my country, the USA, have behaved as aggressive war criminals worldwide. The rulers of my country, an imperial, militarized oligarchy, have replaced democratic, legally elected governments with ruthless dictators in, for example, Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Chile (1972), and in many other countries. It has sent arms to regimes so that they could exterminate their own native populations: Indonesia under Sukarno, and many regimes in Central America. It has committed aggression in many countries, e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. The list of USA's war crimes is too long for me to offer here. The USA is now engaged in a war against Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy. That war began in 2014, when the neutral government of Ukraine was toppled by a USA coup in favor of a fascist regime in Kiev that would sacrifice Ukrainian lives to try to weaken Russia. I now realize, as I did not at the time Klaus Fuchs was discovered to be an "atomic spy", that if the USA had been the world's only nuclear power, it would have been even more aggressive than it has been.

19:41 ----> "Hahahahaha"

real shame the audio/video is corrupted during some segments

Thanks

Gross, Shakespeare

A fascinating conversation. Thank you for it, and for persevering - the technical issues are easy to skip on the playback.

I wonder how our perception of Du Bois changes if we see him as tragic?

This man is the Michael Jordan of Communist history

Absolutely wonderful and spellbinding interview, I'm a huge fan of Hersh, followed by absolutely the worst, most ridiculous a-holes & idiot audience members' non-questions.

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One of Kotkin's best

He’s very charismatic and learned. It’s a shame he’s been diverted into some nefarious anti Chinese think tank recently, he used to be highly credible and unbiased, atypical for a historian. But now he’s now lost it, I’m disappointed.