167. Henry Fonda for President -- Alexander Horwath
Everyday Anarchism29 Syys 2025

167. Henry Fonda for President -- Alexander Horwath

More than any other individual, Henry Fonda was a symbol for better, more leftist, more social democratic America, from The Grapes of Wrath to 12 Angry Men. He even played an English professor who faced cancellation for teaching anarchist literature!

Then in the 1960s, he was the literal father figure that New Left Hollywood figures Jane and Peter Fonda were rebelling against. And Henry let himself be used as a villain in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, playing the embodiment of rapacious American capitalism.

Alexander Horwath weaves together all these threads into his essay film Henry Fonda for President. As we live in a world haunted by 50 years of neoliberal decay, the America Fonda represented seems further away than ever, even as his films still crackle with righteous rage against injustice. Alex and I talk about all these issues and more - I hope you enjoy the conversation, and see the film when you have a chance!

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124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)

124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)

Kate Peters, author of Print Culture and the Early Quakers, joins me to discuss the Quakers, the last of the radical groups we're covering the English Revolution series. You can hear about how the Qua...

29 Touko 20241h 26min

123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam

123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam

In this debt discussion, Fuad and I discuss Chapter 6 of Debt, "Games with Sex and Death," and especially the way that Graeber is writing in the grand theory tradition of anthropology. Fuad also taugh...

22 Touko 20241h 8min

122. The Fifth Monarchists -- Bernard Capp (English Revolution)

122. The Fifth Monarchists -- Bernard Capp (English Revolution)

In the next episode of Radicalism in the English Revolution, I'm joined by Bernard Capp to discuss The Fifth Monarchists - a radical protestant sect that was trying to bring about the end of the world...

15 Touko 20241h 10min

121. Graeber's Debt Chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death

121. Graeber's Debt Chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death

Graeber explains human economies, economies in which money can only be used to shore up social relations, and can't be used to buy things - to the utter confusion of anthropologists trying to buy thin...

8 Touko 202443min

120. Richard Rorty's Anti-Authoritarianism -- John McGowan and Meili Steele

120. Richard Rorty's Anti-Authoritarianism -- John McGowan and Meili Steele

My former professors John McGowan and Meili Steele join me to discuss Richard Rorty's final book, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.

1 Touko 20241h 1min

119. Debt Discussion 5: The Sterility of Economics with James K. Galbraith

119. Debt Discussion 5: The Sterility of Economics with James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith joins me to discuss the flaws in the field of economics and its pseudoscientific justifications

24 Huhti 202452min

118. The Films of Preston Sturges -- Stuart Klawans

118. The Films of Preston Sturges -- Stuart Klawans

Stuart Klawans joins me to discuss his recent book Crooked but Never Common about the films of Preston Sturges, the first writer-director of the Hollywood sound era. Informed by the work of Stanley Ca...

17 Huhti 202451min

117. Graeber's Debt Chapter 5, The Moral Ground of Economic Relations

117. Graeber's Debt Chapter 5, The Moral Ground of Economic Relations

The chapter of Debt which inspired this podcast - get ready to hear the origin of everyday anarchism!

10 Huhti 202455min

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