Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all)

(2 Part Series)



Sources:
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/05/09/launch-long-game
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2020/01/06/the-collegiate-conservative-counter-revolution/?sh=efd1a87111c0
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/polibig/eastidea.htm
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/gned/laphamtentacles04.pdf
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1562521561118429187/photo/1
https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/
https://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/a-rationalization-for-educational-downsizing/
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https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/26/archives/farming-put-first-in-german-plans-economic-policy-of-the-hitler.html
https://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue6/franklin.html
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https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/january-17-1967-statement-governor-ronald-reagan-tuition
https://archive.org/details/rampartsmagazine00ramp/page/28/mode/2up?view=theater

Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all)
(2 Part Series)
 
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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