In Episode 183 of Ill Literacy, Tim Benson talks with Daniel J. Mahoney, author of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined once again by Daniel J. Mahoney, professor emeritus at Assumption University and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, to discuss his latest book, The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now. They chat about what is the “Ideological Lie,” how the totalitarians from the Jacobins onward have relied on it, and how our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasize in new and alarming ways.
Get the book here: https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/persistence-ideological-lie/
Tim Benson joined The Heartland Institute in September 2015 as a policy analyst in the Government Relations Department.
