Republicans Revealing Their Worst Selves

I enjoyed this lively conversation with Wajahat Ali who publishes the always-engaging The Left Hook. Our talk was largely inspired by my latest essay, “Free to Be Their Worst Selves,” but we ranged widely from the 1860s and the rise of the Ku Klux Kan after the Civil War, to the Reagan era and rising income inequality, to the callously indifferent Joni …