Christian Parenti

This is technology that's unveiled by the wealthy, that's utilized by the wealthy to control populations, to pacify populations, to distract populations, to surveil populations, whether we go back to the slave codes or what's happening now.

Christian Parenti, son of political scientist Michael Parenti, wrote The Soft Cage on surveillance years ago.

2004.

I'm sorry.

Used to be more skeptical of Hamilton.

But one of the good the first actually left wing defenses of Hamilton that I read was Radical Hamilton by Christian Parenti.

You might be familiar with it.

I had Christian Parenti on my show a while back.

He's a really interesting guy.

He's gone in a kind of post-left direction.

I'm your host, Julian Vigo.

Today's guest is Christian Parenti, professor of economics at John Jay College, CUNY.

He has published five books, the most recent of which is Radical Hamilton, Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder.

His articles have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Fortune, The London Review of Books, American Affairs, Jacobin, Compact, and Covert Action magazine.

I welcome Christian Parenti to Savage Minds.

We had a lot of readers writing over the past several months about your father, asking if we might do a show about your father and who better to do a show about your father than you.

Of course, when I first had you on the show, I didn't put the connections together.