Gene Epstein: My Mommy the Commie

0:00 – Intro: Gene Epstein turns 76
2:40 – Wisdom, optimism, and living through the '60s
4:35 – What the New Left was about, and communal living
8:04 – The Weathermen and the Greenwich Village explosion
11:18 – Why nonviolent resistance is the only way
14:27 – Kathy Boudin, forgiveness, and cancel culture
16:47 – A Yom Kippur column at Barron's
18:14 – Jewish and black libertarian thinkers
21:51 – Classical liberals and building alliances
23:51 – Soho Forum debates with Bhaskar Sunkara and Richard Wolff
27:04 – Sunkara's Romanov tweet
28:41 – Why socialists are vague about the Soviet Union
30:50 – Worker ownership is already possible under capitalism
35:45 – Cuba, literacy, and jailed librarians
36:35 – Gene's mother, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
37:47 – What Reds gets right about socialism
42:40 – How his mother lost custody for being a communist
46:45 – FBI files, the Rosenbergs, HUAC, and giving a pass
50:18 – Mr. Jones, Walter Duranty, and Gareth Jones
55:07 – Frida Kahlo and Lou's children's books
57:07 – Sex under communism and The Lives of Others
59:56 – Calls to re-educate Trump voters
1:03:10 – Wrap-up and the Soho Forum lockdown debate