American Left

A world of porous borders, transnational institutions, weakened national sovereignty, and political identities increasingly detached from the nation-state.

In this conversation, we ask what made the post-Cold War order distinctive, how Islamism mutated from a project of seizing the state into a transnational movement, why liberal humanitarians and jihadists sometimes became unlikely fellow travelers, and whether the new American left may now be helping preserve the very imperial logic it claims to oppose.

I'm Thomas Small.

This is my conflicted conversation with Philip Cunliffe.

They hate the Jews.

See? So you got the Muslim left right there with the American left, and, uh, the...

They're not Christian left.

Dog is their co-pilot and, uh, and everything, so they got, uh, that.

It's very fascist The, uh, whole healthcare thing.

That's why they're out there shooting CEOs and killing them on the sidewalks of New York because, you know, health fascism.

That's the rhetoric of the left, of the American Left, and they, they love the killing.

They love the killing.