political ideology

And then finally, and this you'll really like, Matt, we then do a new...

This was brought in with the A-Level Reform, Political Ideas, where we look at not just...

We look at conservatism, so the theory and the ideology of conservatism, looking at Hobbes and Leviathan and looking actually at what is it to be a conservative and what is their view of how the world should be.

So that's where my old philosophy notes in the loft would come in.

So the big question is, I think we should dig into more of this because we already do lots of UK government and politics.

We do AmeriCast every week.

Political ideas are interesting.

I think we should return to this.

I'm your host A.R.

This is episode 51 and it is part one of a new mini series on political ideologies.

We are starting with fascism, not because it is the only dangerous idea in the world, but because it is one of the most misunderstood.

Today, we are going to define it clearly, walk through what it looked like in history, separate it from neighboring ideologies, talk about how ordinary people get pulled in, and then deal with one of the loudest modern misuses of the term, including Naomi Wolf's claim about the United States.