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Jun 2022
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The Sovietization of American Life: A Cl...

Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
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Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc start this episode with some thoughts on the very antithesis of American life: Israel. Then they explore all the ways that American life is beginning to resemble aspects of the Soviet Union or Mao's China.

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