About this episode

Bridget discusses the suppressed history of left-wing political violence in America with Noah Rothman.

Bridget sits down with Noah Rothman, senior editor at National Review and author of Blood And Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, to trace the long, suppressed history of radical left-wing political violence in the United States — from the anarchist bombings of the 1920s to the Weather Underground to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Noah argues that this history isn't obscure, it's deliberately buried, and that the same patterns driving today's wave of violence have shown ...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Noah Rothman

Topics covered

• left-wing violence
• political history
• radical politics
• American history
• social movements

Keywords

• left-wing violence
• Noah Rothman
• political violence
• American history
• radical left

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Review

Books & works: Blood And Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America

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