NTK: Killing Baby Hitler: A Conversation with Mike Tomasky
6/22/202640 min
In his new novel Killing Baby Hitler, editor of The New Republic Mike Tomasky uses humor and satire to explore themes of responsibility and evil. But when our President does things like hosting a UFC fight in front of the White House, what is even satire anymore? Mike Tomasky joins David Rothkopf to discuss his new book as well as take stock of our current political climate and the future of political leadership.
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First 90 secondsDavid Rothkopf· Host0:00
[static] Nine. Twelve. Ten. Twenty-eight. Two. Twenty-three. This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC, and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world. Hello, and welcome to Need to Know. This is a special episode. I'm David Rothkopf, and we are joined by our friend Mike Tomasky, who's the editor of The New Republic. Um, and we'll probably talk to him about a bunch of that kind of New Republic-ly stuff at the end of this thing, 'cause, you know, the world is going to hell, and nobody, nobody covers a world going to hell better than Mike Tomasky and The New Republic. Uh, but first I wanna start with something that's a bit of a change of pace here for Mike, uh, because he's got a new book out, and the new book is called Killing Baby Hitler. This is, this is a copy of the book right here. I've read it. I think it's a great book. It is a funny book. Uh, it is a, uh, I don't know... Do you call a book like this science fiction? W- I mean, it, it's set in the future. It's got science. It goes into the past. How-- What, what, like, what do you call it as a genre, Mike?
Mike Tomasky· Guest1:26
I don't know. It's, it's genre-defying,