Ep 180: Universalism Against Nationalism
Sam Goldman interviews Dr. Susan Neiman Director of the Einstein Forumin Germany to discuss fascism, repression, censorship & blacklisting of critics of Israel’s war, universalism v nationalism & much more! Give a listen & let us know your thoughts!
Dr. Neiman's latest book is Left Is Not Woke. Her first work of fiction, Nine Stories: A Berlin Novel, will be published in 2024.
She has written two recent thought provoking essays for the The New York Review of Books:
She has written two thought provoking essays for the The New York Review of Books:
Historical Reckoning Gone Haywire
Germans’ efforts to confront their country's criminal history and to root out antisemitism have shifted from vigilance to a philosemitic McCarthyism that threatens their rich cultural life. October 19
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023...
"Germany on Edge: In recent weeks, Germany’s reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch." November 3
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/1...
More recently she authored
The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayed
The Hamas attack has devastated progressive Jews who are not prepared to celebrate the carnage as an act of liberation. Published by the Newstatesman on November 29
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/20...
Mentioned in this episode:
A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. by Robert Kagen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza by Yuval Abraham
https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassina...
“The Only Democracy in the Middle East” Is a Fascist State by Paul Street
https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/the...
What the “Pause” in the Fighting in Gaza Has Not Paused: The Ongoing U.S.-Backed Palestinian Genocide by Israel from Revcom.us
https://revcom.us/en/what-pause-fight...
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