Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal brings an outsider’s eye to American politics (or as he puts it, a perspective from” an outpost of the empire”). Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa Quirk ask about his new book, Revolt (out in Hebrew here, out in English soon); about what Trump got right and the media got wrong; and what it means to live in a radical moment.
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[0:40] An unsolicited window into Adaam & Vanessa’s domestic life
[3:30] Nadav’s career in a nutshell
[4:40] Into Trumpland
[6:00] The first (and weakest) horseman of the apocalypse
[10:40] Standing up to China
[13:30] Amateur Hour at the White House
[16:00] Obama-phoria & the pendulum swing
[17:00] Nick Griffin, a dreadful man with a grasp on reality
[22:50] The failures of the Obama administration
[24:20] Back into Trumpland
[26:20] What a globalist is
[34:02] Nationalism and an empire in retreat
[36:30] The revolt is a sentiment, not an ideology (Or Molotov cocktails in Athens)
[42:00] “The America that we dreaded, we feared, we hoped for is gone.” What’s to be born?
[45:42] Living through a radical moment
[52:10] No progress without struggle
[54:50] The natural order is change, we were just born in a pause
[55:40] The responsibility of journalists
[1:00:20] The journalist’s dilemma
[1:07:00] The advantage of being Israeli (On chutzpah and frank conversations)
The Revolt Is Justified (w/ Nadav Eyal)