Ben Rhodes

Products they talk about

• From the Ruins of Empire👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation for understanding global south resistance to western hegemony

  “From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra is a really excellent kind of intellectual history of, for lack of a better way of putting it, global south or people in decolonized spaces in the 20th century coming up with alternatives to Western hegemony.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The World of Yesterday👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation for understanding collapse of liberal order in europe

  “The World of Yesterday by Stefan Schweig. I've found myself reading twice since Trump's election. But it's just haunting and beautiful, contemporaneous. You know, Stefan Schweig was a great Austrian writer writing this, writing in the midst of World War II his kind of life story. But it's really about the collapse of the liberal order in Europe.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Travelers in the Third Reich👍 Recommends

  …book recommendation about perceptions of nazi germany by visiting foreigners

  “A book I read very recently, this last few days, is called Travelers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd. And what she did is she found letters, journals, other contemporaneous accounts of basically British and Americans visiting Nazi Germany. And so what were their impressions? Did they see, and you know, spoiler alert, way too many of them did not see how bad this was going to be or were sympathetic.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show