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61 minutes
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Apr 21, 2016
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The standard narrative runs like this: Ngo Dinh Diem was the corrupt and oppressive president of South Vietnam whose removal (which wound up taking the form of assassination) the Kennedy Administration had no choice but to endorse. On top of everything else, Diem's administration was dominated by Roman Catholics in a predominantly Buddhist country, and his outrageous oppression of Buddhists was another reason he had to go.
I myself believed all this, and even taught it in the classroom. According to our guest, it's bunk.
I myself believed all this, and even taught it in the classroom. According to our guest, it's bunk.
Released:
Apr 21, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Ep. 1747 Ex-Marxist Exposes Postmodernism, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies: Michael Rectenwald, whose life was made miserable to impossible at New York University after he began to dissent from the social justice orthodoxy, just created a full-blown course on postmodernism, critical theory, and cultural studies, and their... by The Tom Woods Show