S4 Ep. 20: ‘Goldfish Memory’: Adam Serwer on Critical Race Theory and the Very American Fear of Owning up to Our Racist Past and Present

fiction/non/fiction

Atlantic staff writer and author Adam Serwer joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how opposition to critical race theory aligns with our country’s historical resistance to acknowledging the truth and changing. Serwer reads from and discusses his new book The Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America, out this week.

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This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.

Selected readings:

Adam Serwer

• The Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America
• “The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump,” New York Times
• “The Nationalist’s Delusion,” The Atlantic
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Others:

• Eric Foner
• “The Great Awokening” by Matt Yglesias, Vox
• The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell

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