# Revolution and Ruin: George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical

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Podcast: [The Culture We Deserve](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403)
Published: 2025-12-25T14:01:47+00:00
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## Resource

A very special Christmas treat for our listeners. Joseph and Jessa discuss George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical, which asks the very important question: is the socialist's primary task to yell at people and tell them they are wrong about everything? Set in the 1830s after political reform has granted voting rights to new -- but still very limited -- populations, a small English market town deals with the tumult that follows. A powerfully rich heir returns to stand for public office as "a radical," a young man decides to devote himself to the bettering of the working classes by telling them they are all ignorant drunks, and a young woman must decide which one of these weirdos to marry. But there is also a strange paternity case and a power struggle over an estate, a satirical storyline about the foolishness of patriarchal lineage, and a few good jokes about atheists. Join the discussion: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com

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