“To say we’ve never seen anything like this doesn’t even begin to express the magnitude of both the novelty and the danger here.” — Jacob T. Levy on the coming Presidency of Donald Trump.
Jacob T. Levy is the Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Professor of Political Science, and as Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Jacob’s most recent book is Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom. He joins Coy to discuss his recent essay, “Authoritarianism and Post-Truth Politics." This interview was originally broadcast on Monday, December 12, 2016.
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