Podcasts and video essays

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Here are some suggestions for podcasts, videos and documentaries to watch or listen to :

  • Tom Nicholas’ video “How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st” is a 27 minute exploration of the traits that define people who may be more easily radicalized by fascist groups, based on the Authoritarian Personality study carried out by T.W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950.
  • Matt Bernstein’s entire youtube channel is devoted to examining (mostly) american fascism, as well as transphobia and related topics. Some videos we particularly like are: The Crunchy to Alt-Right Pipeline, How the Right is Winning Young Men, and How Conservatism Infiltrated Pop Culture. These are podcast style videos in which the host Matt Bernstein discusses various topics with one or two experts guests. Bonus: the host’s voice and cadence is pleasant, and all videos are structured by an outline based around pieces of online pop culture (tweets, posts, shorts, etc).
  • Contrapoints makes highly researched, very visual video essays on topics relating to political philosophy. They are long, and treat each topic in-depth. Some videos we particularly like are : Justice and its follow-up Envy, and these two videos on JK Rowling’s descent into fascism through the TERF pipeline.

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