{"podcast":{"title":"LARB Radio Hour","slug":"larb-radio-hour-174262","podcast_index_feed_id":174262,"rss_url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://lareviewofbooks.org/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/1/6/d/316d9cb384d5b13b/itunes3.jpg","author":"Medaya Ocher","episode_count":99,"summary":"The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings and discussions about all things literary. Hosted by LARB Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-05T04:18:00.170722+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262"},"episode":{"title":"Kim Phillips-Fein on the Anti-Egalitarian Strain in American Culture and Politics","slug":"kim-phillips-fein-on-the-anti-egalitarian-strain-in-american-culture-and-politics","published_at":"2026-07-24T15:20:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/kim-phillips-fein-on-the-anti-egalitarian-strain-in-american-culture-and-politics","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262","url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/kim-phillips-fein-on-the-anti-egalitarian-strain-in-american-culture-and-politics","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lareviewofbooks/LARB_-_Kim_Phillips-Fein_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=276716","summary":"Host Eric Newman and LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher speak with Columbia history professor Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America . Phillips-Fein examines a powerful countertradition that has challenged our well-mythologized national ideal of equality from the United States's founding to today. Moving from accounts about John Adams and William Graham Sumner to Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Peter Thiel, she traces how these and other influential figures defended hierarchy and sought to normalize inequality as a defining and even necessary feature of the American experiment.","meta_description":"Host Eric Newman and LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher speak with Columbia history professor Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book Country of Lords: Neo-Ar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2618,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/larb-radio-hour-174262/episodes/kim-phillips-fein-on-the-anti-egalitarian-strain-in-american-culture-and-politics/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/kim-phillips-fein-on-the-anti-egalitarian-strain-in-american-culture-and-politics.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}