Tuesday, June 16, 2026

FASCIST AMERICA 2026: Prominent Leading Public Intellectuals, Authors, Historians, Journalists, Cultural Critics, Media Producers, Teachers, Activists, and Philosophers Eddie Glaude, Jr. and Mehdi Hasan Engage in A Typically informative, important, dynamic, and wide ranging discussion of What Is Absolutely Necessary To Do And Learn In Our Collective Struggle Against the Deadly Forces of Fascism and White Supremacy in the U.S. and the world in this Historical Moment. These two deeply compelling individuals also discuss the Outstanding New Book by Dr. Glaude, 'America, U.S.A : How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries’

MAGA’s ‘Mythical White America’ Is Jeopardizing the World



Zeteo

June 15, 2026

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With America’s 250th anniversary approaching, author and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude Jr. is using the occasion as a lens to examine the country’s past. His latest book, ‘America, U.S.A: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries’ explores how American myth-making has excluded Black Americans. “There is something about the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation that has these haunting echoes,” Glaude tells Mehdi. “We’ve never really removed the tumor that causes so much of the illness of American life.” Glaude’s book takes readers through the U.S.’s biggest anniversaries, highlighting the contradictions behind each national celebration. In his conversation with Mehdi, he explains why confronting these tensions in American history, while never easy, is vital for a healthy democracy. This conversation was published on zeteo.com last week. If you want early, exclusive access to this kind of independent, unfiltered journalism — subscribe to our Substack here: https://zeteo.com/subscribe.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.

“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy

“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a necessary conversation as we reflect on the meaning of our country’s 250th anniversary.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello

Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country’s enduring refusal to face its true nature—especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth.

America, U.S.A., deliberately formulated and beautifully written, details a heart-wrenching exploration of America’s legacy. It is a magnificently complex combination of lessons and voices—from W.E.B. DuBois and John Dos Passos to Herman Melville and Martin Luther King, Jr.—that, together, paint a sprawling and honest tableau of the United States, its complicated past, and ever more tenuous future. Glaude’s is a powerful voice of conscience in our tumultuous world. He pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.

Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story. Devastatingly candid, profoundly moving, and deeply reflective, America, U.S.A. is a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future.   


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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

02:15 America’s 250th anniversary

05:30 White Supremacy

07:42 America after Trump

11:11 Are Dems meeting the moment?

14:40 Biden’s checkered legacy

17:39 Trump’s attacks on diversity

19:32 Will the US survive Trump?


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