Podcast appearances and mentions of Jacob S Hacker

Democracy is eroding in the United States? What are the causes and what should be done? Is the erosion of democracy because of political elites and specifically the reaction of the Republican Party to the 2020 election? Or does it run deeper? [ dur: 58mins. ] Jacob S. Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political … Continue reading Scholars' Circle – Democracy is eroding in United States, why and how to stop the decline – December 10, 2023 →

In conversation with Jacob S. Hacker Political scientist Barbara F. Walter is the author of Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatists Conflicts are So Violent; Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict; and Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention. The Rohr Chair in Pacific International Relations at the School of Global Policy & Strategy, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Studies Quarterly, among other academic journals. Walter has received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the United States Institute of Peace. How Civil Wars Start examines the substantial increase in violent extremism around the globe in order to explore the rising possibility of a second U.S. civil war. The Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and the director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, Jacob S. Hacker is the author of The Great Risk Shift and The Divided Welfare State, and the co-author of Let Them Eat Tweets and American Amnesia, among several other books. He is a board member of The American Prospect, the Economic Policy Institute, and The Century Foundation.  (recorded 1/31/2022)

As President Trump seeks a second term in office, the apparent makeover of the GOP from a tax-cutting old guard into a populist new guard is a critical part of the upcoming 2020 election. But how much of this is just an appearance, and how much is a real shift among Republicans? In their new book, Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling authors and political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson offer a definitive answer: Trump isn't a break with the GOP's recent past. On the contrary, he embodies its tightening embrace of plutocracy and right-wing extremism―a dynamic Hacker and Pierson call “plutocratic populism.” As they argue in this new book and elsewhere, the GOP serves its plutocratic “masters” to a degree without precedent in modern global history. Today's Republicans have doubled down on a truly radical, elite-benefiting economic agenda while at the same time making increasingly incendiary racial and cultural appeals to their almost entirely white base. Hacker and Pierson's new book demonstrates that since the early 1980s, when inequality started spiking, extreme tax cutting, union busting, and deregulation have gone hand-in-hand with extreme race-baiting, outrage stoking, and disinformation. Instead of responding to the real challenges facing voters, they say the Republican Party offers division and distraction―most prominently in the "racist, nativist bile" of the president's Twitter feed. What does it mean for the country and the upcoming election when reactionary plutocrats and right-wing populists have become the two faces of one of the country's two major parties? Please join us for an important conversation on these topics as America prepare for the 2020 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss The Cold Vanish, The Voting Booth, Want, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes; and Ecco Books and The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands by Jon Billman Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States by Marke Bieschke The Color of Air: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert Want: A Novel by Lynn Steger Strong The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong WHAT WE’RE READING: My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Once You Go This Far: A Mystery by Kristen Lepionka Alice Knott by Blake Butler Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel by Robin Wasserman Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff Marah Chase and the Fountain of Youth: A Novel by Jay Stringer After the Body: New & Selected Poems by Cleopatra Mathis Seekers of the Wild Realm (The Wild Realm) by Alexandra Ott Eight Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland Let Them Eat Pancakes: One Man’s Personal Revolution in the City of Light by Craig Carlson Breathing Through the Wound: A Novel by Víctor del Árbol, Lisa Dillman (translator) Memoirs and Misinformation: A novel by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon Antkind: A Novel by Charlie Kaufman You’re Next by Kylie Schachte Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons by Mr. Fish Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson The Marked Volume 1: Fresh Ink by David Hine, Brian Haberlin, Geirrod Van Dyke Hard Wired by Len Vlahos Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust The Damned by Renée Ahdieh The Psychic Soviet by Ian F Svenonius Members Only by Sameer Pandya Paying the Land by Joe Sacco Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern How to Take Awesome Photos of Cats by Andrew Marttila The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread–And Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (translator) The Hungover Games: A True Story by Sophie Heawood The Lost City: The Omte Origins (from the World of the Trylle) by Amanda Hocking The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life by Diane Cardwell Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul by A. J. Baime Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya Live to Tell the Tale: Combat Tactics for Player Characters by Keith Ammann Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World by Ben Widdicombe A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it by Rob DeSalle One to Watch: A Novel by Kate Stayman-London Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air by Jackson Ford Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook: A Novel by Celia Rees Of Mutts and Men (A Chet & Bernie Mystery) by Spencer Quinn The Ballad of Big Feeling by Ari Braverman Modern Witchcraft: Goddess Empowerment for the Kick-Ass Woman by Deborah Blake The Book of Fatal Errors (The Feylawn Chronicles) by Dashka Slater Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery by Erica C. Barnett The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel by Susan Wiggs Bonnie: A Novel by Christina Schwarz True Love: A Novel by Sarah Gerard In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida by Kent Russell The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide by Zerlina Maxwell Red Dust by Yoss, David Frye (translator) Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross The Good Luck Stone by Heather Bell Adams Monstress: Stories (Art of the Story) by Lysley Tenorio Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers by Helena Dea Bala Every Sky a Grave: A Novel by Jay Posey Watching You Without Me: A novel by Lynn Coady The Big Book of Mars by Marc Hartzman The Book of Dragons: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan Sensation Machines by Adam Wilson Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell Mapping Humanity: How Modern Genetics Is Changing Criminal Justice, Personalized Medicine, and Our Identities by Joshua Z. Rappoport Lake Life: A Novel by David James Poissant Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper You Again: A Novel by Debra Jo Immergut An Education in Ruin by Alexis Bass B*witch by Paige McKenzie and Nancy Ohlin Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone Survivor Song: A Novel by Paul Tremblay Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau The Caiplie Caves: Poems by Karen Solie Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom by L.S. Dugdale American Follies by Norman Lock Scorpionfish by Natalie Bakopoulos 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love by Daphne Merkin Out of Time by David Klass Open Secrets by Sheila Kohler The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell Haunted Heroine (Heroine Complex Book 4) by Sarah Kuhn Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning Accidental by Alex Richards A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead) by Jeff VanderMeer The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice by David Hill Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron All These Monsters by Amy Tintera The Bright Lands by John Fram Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous Unravel the Dusk (The Blood of Stars) by Elizabeth Lim Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang and Madelyn Rosenberg Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott Cool for America: Stories by Andrew Martin Florence Adler Swims Forever: A Novel by Rachel Beanland Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel by Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (translator) Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother by Douglas A. Martin Artifact by Arlene Heyman Scare Me by K. R. Alexander Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems by Martin Shaw and Tony Hoagland Hurry Home: A Novel by Roz Nay The Heir Affair (The Royal We) by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan Or What You Will by Jo Walton Ghost Hunter’s Daughter by Dan Poblocki Love, Jacaranda by Alex Flinn Not Another Love Song by Olivia Wildenstein The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment by Frank Tallis The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper The Unleashed by Danielle Vega A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel by Hank Green The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg, Neil Smith (translator) Finders Creepers (Half Past Peculiar Book 1) by Derek Fridolfs, Dustin Nguyen Fraternity: Stories by Benjamin Nugent The Last Wife by Karen Hamilton The Heart and Other Monsters: A Memoir by Rose Andersen Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation by Jamie Thompson The Shadows: A Novel by Alex North The Patient by Jasper DeWitt The Son of Good Fortune: A Novel by Lysley Tenorio Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse by Chantel Acevedo How to Write a Story by Kate Messner, Mark Siegel Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim History Smashers: The Mayflower by Kate Messner

On May 7, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow published a story in the New Yorker detailing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s alleged history of sexually and psychologically terrorizing the women he dated. Hours later, Schneiderman stepped down. Schneiderman was only Mayer’s most recent investigation. Over the course of her career, she’s exposed America’s torture programs, the Koch brothers’ takeover of Republican Party politics, the role the reclusive Mercer family had in funding Donald Trump’s rise, the real story of what happened between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, and more. She’s among the greatest investigative reporters of her generation, and I’ve always wondered how she breaks so many huge stories on such a vast range of topics. And so, in this podcast, I asked her. The result is a conversation that not only helps make sense of the moment we’re living in — from #MeToo to how the Kochs tamed the Trump administration to why Gina Haspel is our CIA director — but also acts as a primer on the art and practice of investigative reporting. Enjoy! Recommended books: Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal by Kim Phillips-Fein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're continuing our timely conversation with author Jacob S. Hacker about the changing dynamics between the public and private sectors in driving economic growth, and how those changes are impacting our politics, culture and prosperity.