John Ganz

You don't understand the difference between government, movement, and regime.

More on atomization and association; changing public opinion on Israel; Piero Gobetti's liberal anti-fascism Reading, Watching 10.05.25

The weekly round-up.—
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Can't recommend John Ganz's When the Clock Broke enough. Finally someone has written a Rick Perlstein-style book that serves as a "fossil record of Trumpism". This one covers Bush 41's Administration and I really hope he's working on another volume for the rest of the 90s and the Clinton Presidency

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

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The Battle Over Civil Society Talking to Dylan Riley about Trump, Democracy, and Fascism

And here is the full audio.
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The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 4 — Military Readiness Edition (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

new convo between me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on hegseth and that weird display in quantico www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 4 — Military Readiness Edition | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

Episode 4 — www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

(PDF) Keeping the Nineties Weird PDF | On Mar 1, 2025, Charles U. Zug published Keeping the Nineties Weird | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

I missed this really thoughtful and detailed review in American Political Thought last spring. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Talking to Pankaj Mishra; Natasha Stagg's Grand Rapids; Further Readings on Hegemony Reading, Watching 09.28.26

In this week's round-up, I spoke to essayist Pankaj Mishra about his most recent book The World After Gaza. —
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Unpopular Front is going to start doing some author interviews. Today I recorded with essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, which will hopefully be up on Sunday, and I'm recording with sociologist Dylan Riley on Monday

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 3 — The Kimmel Sanction (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

new episode of the pod on the kimmel situation www.patreon.com/posts/139673...

Unclear and Present Politics Episode 3 — The Kimmel Sanction | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

Episode 3
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thanks fixed now

Notes on the 'Balance of Forces' Civil Society as a Battlefield

I jotted down some quick notes about where things stand post-Kimmel:
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if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

Drawing out Leviathan A Minor Victory but a Major Defeat

On the spectacle and reality of power.—
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The first actually useful application of AI has been proposed

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Reflections on Free Speech; The Lost Art of Debate; Machiavelli on ‘Good’ Cruelty; When Hitchens was Great Reading, Watching 09.21.25

The round-up.—
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YouTube video by William Fischer Christopher Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes about Rev. Falwell's Death

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

“‘A new age of anti-politics was dawning, in which the adoption of substantive political positions or policy pledges was a risk, and the best a professional politician could do was remain likeable but vague on specifics, talking as little as possible about ‘politics’.”

This Is It Obedience and Support are the Same

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This Is It Obedience and Support are the Same

"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Unclear and Present Politics Ep. 2 — The Life & Death of Charlie Kirk (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

ganz and i talked charlie kirk on the pod www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Thank you Will! A very thoughtful and revealing reading of the book.

Also in this issue:

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the Reform conference
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript
@will-davies.bsky.social on John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke
Abigail Green on John Singer Sargent
@jrobertlennon.com on Elmore Leonard
Emily Berry on the novelist Ben Pester…

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

When the Clock Broke reviewed in @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...