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Alex and I discuss the underrated first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leatherstocking Tales,' ***The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale. ***We discuss James' father 'self- made' landlord father, William, who settled central New York after obtaining massive amounts of land following the flux of the American Revolution. William and James, slaveowners. Coopers lamentable race science fixation and commendable proto-Marxist materialism. Judge Temple as the first Dick Cheney. The American frontier myth. Maple trees as short-term and long-term commodities. No settlements without commodification. Environmentalism as a test of gentility. Maple sugar: the market solution to carribbean sugar slavery.

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Sources:

Barbara Mann and Alan Taylor, April 23, 2001. Writings of James Fenimore Cooper on C-Span ( https://www.c-span.org/video/?163765-1/writings-james-fenimore-cooper )

Taylor, Alan. 1995. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York: A.A. Knopf.

The Pioneers read by Gary W. Sherwin ( https://librivox.org/the-pioneers-by-james-fenimore-cooper/ )

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This week, Chris and I take a look at Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World." We revisit Bregman's two viral moments: telling Davos the answer is to raie taxes and telling Tucker Carlson he's part of that problem. The need for imagination and AOC. Good UBIs and trash UBIs like Andrew Yang's. "Non-reformist reforms." Nationalism and basic incomes. Bregman's open borders argument. 15-hour work works. Nationalistic rhetoric.ch

References:

Bregman, Rutger, and Elizabeth Manton. 2017. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World.

Battistoni, Alyssa. "The False Promise of Universal Basic Income." Dissent Magazine. Accessed July 06, 2019. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/false-promise-universal-basic-income-andy-stern-ruger-bregman.

Chavez, Aida. "Tucker Carlson on Rupert Murdoch in 2010 Radio Segment: "I'm 100 Percent His Bitch"." The Intercept. March 12, 2019. Accessed July 06, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/03/12/tucker-carlson-tapes-rupert-murdoch/.

Davos 2019 - The Cost of Inequality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG-r_3eRCw

Bernie Sanders Endorsed by "Gordon Gekko"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wAa9DqHZtM

How To: Academy: Rutger Bregman - How to Build a Better World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDelnwNmDQ

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Alex and Matt discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major novel, inspired by his time at the Transcendentalist/Fourierist Brook Farm Commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. A deeper introduction to utopian socialist Charles Fourier, who is mentioned in both this novel and The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne's fear of mesmerism and political reform. Coverdale's incel energy. Hollingsworth's fascist misogyny. Women's work. Marx and Engels dunk on utopian socialists.

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References:

Beauchamp, Gorman (2002). Hawthorne and the Universal Reformers. Utopian Studies. 13 (2):38 - 52.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Richard H. Millington. The Blithedale Romance. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.

Jennings, Chris. Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. New York: Random House, 2017.

Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature.1923. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6wDm8WHGk

Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and A. J. P. Taylor. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.

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Alex, Grace, and Matt are back to discuss the extraordinary (for structural reasons!) life of Margaret Fuller, a feminist and later socialist who is often mentioned in relation to the Transcendentalists. We talk about her time as a professional conversationalist in Boston, her self-sacrificing editorship of 'The Dial,' the Transcendentalist magazine. The tuopian community Brook Farm. Fuller the columnist/foreign correspondent at Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Her Orwell-like radicalisation in Europe during the revolutionary 1840s.

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Sources:

Librivox narration by Elizabeth Klett:

https://librivox.org/woman-in-the-nineteenth-century-and-kindred-papers-relating-to-the-sphere-condition-and-duties-of-women-by-margaret-fuller/

Interlock Media, Jorge Alonso Maldonado Performances and Films. Margaret Fuller Documentary.YouTube. July 20, 2017. Accessed May 25, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQgQHj_CeNo.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe. New-York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Marshall, Megan. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Matteson, John. The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography. New York, NY: W.W. Norton &, 2013.

Wineapple, Brenda. Hawthorne: A Life. Knopf, 2003.

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Alex and Matt are once again joined by Grace, this time to discuss 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an epic poem published in 1855. We discuss: trochaic tetrameter!, Native American Christ, Longfellow's timidity and desire to speak out on issues like slavery, The New York Times' racism, Edgar Allan Poe's racism, inevitablism, video game bosses, pestilence comes from the wealthy, and why "civic nationalism has always been a lie to apologize for race-based violence.

A+ narration by Peter Yearsley at Librivox

Sources:

Lepore, Jill. How Longfellow Woke the Dead. The American Scholar. March 2, 2011.

McClatchy, JD. “Bookend; Return to Gitche Gumee.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 22 Oct. 2000.

New York Times. 1855 December 28. "Longfellow's Poem": The Song of Hiawatha, Anonymous review.

Slotkin, Richard. 1973. Regeneration through violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

Ziskin, Laura, Avi Arad, Alvin Sargent, Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, et al. 2004. Spider-Man 2. Culver City, Calif: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.

Charles Calhoun on his book, Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life https://youtu.be/f7QsL_7SEcQ

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Next Orwell episode will be on his 1937 essay "Spilling the Spanish Beans."

Quick note for Patrons: As mentioned in the episode, Alex and I will be doing periodic premium episodes on Orwell essays over the coming months as a thank you for your support.

Our first George Orwell episode, of many! This time, his essay 'Looking Back on the Spanish War' written August 1942, with sections I, II, III, and VII printed in New Road, June 1943. Alex gives us an overview of religious and monarchical conflict in pre-modern Spain. Libertarian Socialism/Anarchism's early success in Spain. Franco's counterrevolutionary coup. Orwell's critique of the away-from-the-front left. Why right-wing atrocities are, as a rule, worse than leftist atrocities. Orwell's attempt to join the communists, becoming a Trotskyist, sympathy for Anarchists, and eventual smearing as a Fascist by Stainists. Why both Liberals and Communists downplayed the revolutionary nature of the war to focus on fighting fascism. Orwell's fear for the future of history under totalitarianism. How the US and UK let fascism win in Spain. Why the working class is, long term, fascisms biigest threat. Why there is hardly ever a war in which it doesn't matter who wins.

Sources:

'Animal Farm,' BBC's In Our Time podcast, September 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wgkz4

'The Spanish Civil War,' BBC's In Our Time podcast, April 2003

Shelden, Michael. 1991. Orwell: The Authorized Biography. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Hochschild, Adam. 2017. Spain in our hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

Beevor, Antony. 2006. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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Today, joining Matt (@MattLech) and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) is David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) of The Michael Brooks Show and sinthome.com. We're discussing Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism' and it's continued, though submerged, relevance.

How earnest is Oscar Wilde's socialism? Oscar Wilde's mother as a revolutionary poet in Dublin during the great famine. Wilde's opposition to private property. Private property vs. Personal property. William Morris and a brief look into the socialistic/medieval nostalgic Arts & Crafts movement. Matt misuses the word "triage." Oscar Wilde, a fully-automated luxury space communist? Oscar Wilde's criminal justice bona fides. What's the role of the state in Wilde's anarcho-socialism?

Sources:

Full audiobook:

https://librivox.org/the-soul-of-man-by-oscar-wilde/

'Some Notes on Wilde's Socialism,' Peter van de Kamp and Patrick Leahy. The Crane Bag, Vol. 7, No. 1, Socialism & Culture (1983), pp. 141-150

O'Sullivan, Emer. 2016. The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and his Family.

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On this episode, Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss King Philip's War (or Metacomet's Rebellion) and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson that resulted from it. The economic, legal, and cultural forces that drove Metacomet and the Wampanoags to take up arms against the settlers. Praying Indians at Harvard and the Eliot Indian bible as a cultural weapon. Captivity and missionary narratives as "safe" ways for colonists to experience the wilderness. Extended excerpts from the Mary Rowlandson's narrative. Tobacco.

References:

'500 Nations' miniseries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIJApxO6auE&t=965s

Slotkin, Richard. 1973. Regeneration through violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.

WARREN, JAMES A. 2019. GOD, WAR, AND PROVIDENCE: the epic struggle of roger williams and the narragansett indians ... against the puritans of new england. SCRIBNER.

Hi patrons! This week, Alex, Grace and I go through Henry James' 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (how James' biography is more about James). Sensitive and insecure America and listen to an unabridged reading of Hawthorne's 1835 short story, 'Wakefield' about a man who leaves his wife without explanation only to live nearby and watch her for decades.

Sources:

McCall, Dan. "Henry James's Hawthorne." New England Review (1990-) 18, no. 4 (1997): 111-18.

Matthew Peters; "Henry James's Hawthorne," The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 305–317

"Hawthorne" by Henry James, narrated by Flo Gibson

'Wakefield' in Twice-Told Tales by Hawthorne on Librivox. https://librivox.org/twice-told-tales-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/

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On todays show, Alex and I discuss "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger. A satire on the rising popularity of the sensationalist penny press magazines like The Sun, this story is as much a media critique as it is an early example of science fiction.

References:

The Folklorist, "The Great Moon Hoax.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 Oct. 2013, youtube.com/watch?v=azlz163nN-A.

Full story narration available via Librivox.org:

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1

https://librivox.org/the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe-raven-edition-volume-1/

"The Historical Novel" by Georg Lukacs (originally 1937)

Full PDF: https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Georg-Luka%CC%81cs-The-Historical-Novel.pdf

How Great Science Fiction Works by Professor Gary K. Wolfe, Ph.D. in The Great Courses series.

Dinius, M. J. (2004), Poe's Moon Shot: “Hans Phaall” and the Art and Science of Antebellum Print Culture. Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 37: 1-10

Martinez, Carlo. "E. A. Poe's "Hans Pfaall," the Penny Press, and the Autonomy of the Literary Field." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 12, no. 1 (2011): 6-31.

"Balloon Boy" Falcon Henne Admits: "We Did This For The Show"

https://youtu.be/wI6UONWCq7A