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Shaping SF: Public Talk – The First Post-Pandemic Political Era: After WWI
October 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

American Midnight author Adam Hochschild and Building the Population Bomb author Dr. Emily Merchant (UC Davis) A critical reappraisal of the first post-pandemic political era after WWI, with its brutal authoritarian assault on civil liberties, and overt racism bolstered by the pseudo-scientific Eugenics movement (that continues to lurk in today’s AI, Hi-Tech “TESCREAL” madness), and the white supremacist hysteria about a “foreign population bomb.” This history rhymes a month before the 2024 election with the racist anti-immigrant bombast of the Republican campaign.
