Episode 22: HBO's Chernobyl and the limits of the liberal imagination

12/07/2019 33 min
Episode 22: HBO's Chernobyl and the limits of the liberal imagination

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Oats takes up the takes up the recent HBO miniseries Chernobyl. We talk about the political commentary the series is trying to offer, the fact that historical inaccuracies were a major part of telling a story whose ostensible purpose was to highlight the importance of the truth, and why liberal centrism is not necessarily an objective standpoint from which to look at the world.