Sam Harris speaks with James Kirchick about the far left’s growing influence over Democratic politics. They discuss Kirchick’s article “The DSA Is a Parasite,” the group’s platform and foreign policy, entryism, the alliance between Islamists and the far left, Third Worldism, Zohran Mamdani, antisemitism on the left, polling on political violence, Kirchick’s exit from The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre, JD Vance, and other topics.
James Kirchick is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, a columnist for Commentary, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He is the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age and Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Spectator, and The New Republic, has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and Fox News, and is a regular guest on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Website: www.jameskirchick.com
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