Michael and Us: Print the Legend w/ Aisling McCrea
Jacobin Radio
English - March 26, 2021 20:52 - 46 minutes - 5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsNews History socialism jacobin left politics alternative socialist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The forces of liberal democracy (Jimmy Stewart) and rugged frontier self-reliance (John Wayne) come head-to-head in John Ford's masterpiece THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) - an elegiac look at a Wild West becoming tamed by progress. Aisling McCrea (contributing editor and podmaster general at Current Affairs magazine) fills in for Luke to discuss who shot Lee Marvin's chaotic outlaw, and what it means. The answers may surprise you! PLUS: the death of "mythos" in cultural criticism, and the history of "the Dilbert guy."
Check out the Current Affairs podcast - https://www.currentaffairs.org/podcast
"Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos" by Aisling McCrea - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/satanic-panics-and-the-death-of-mythos
"The Adams Principle" by Aisling McCrea - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/10/the-adams-principle
"Dilbert: A Reckoning" by Miles Wray - https://www.theawl.com/2017/12/dilbert-a-reckoning/
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