163/ The Far Right is Not Inevitable w/ Aurelien Mondon

The Fire These Times

For episode 163, Elia Ayoub is joined by University of Bath researcher and repeated guest Dr. Aurelien Mondon to talk about the populist hype in the context of the gains by the Far Right in a number of Western countries. We spoke about the EU elections as well as the upcoming UK, France and US elections, asking the question: is the media covering the Far Right responsibly? (spoiler alert: no)

Dr. Mondon is a senior lecturer in Politics, Languages & International Studies at the Centre for Qualitative Research and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network.

Correction: I said Bill McKibben when I meant to say Bill Fletcher Jr! Fletcher was a recent guest of TFTT. I was reading a McKibben article earlier that day and my brain must have confused Bills.

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Credits:

• Host(s): ⁠⁠Elia J. Ayoub⁠

• Guest(s): Aurelien Mondon

• Music: ⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠

• Sound editor: Liam Evans

• Episode designer: ⁠⁠Elia J. Ayoub⁠⁠

• Team profile pics: ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠

• Original TFTT design: ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠

• TFTT Transcripts: ⁠⁠Antidotezine⁠