The Left's COVID Failure.

While I had intended to narrow the focus of the podcast to Art and Entertainment, I am completely transfixed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its continued societal impacts. As result, many of my interviews have unwittingly become very pandemic-centric. In order to enable listeners to easily differentiate this content from what's intended as the main focus of The Clifton Duncan Podcast, I will deem these interviews "The COVID Series" (technically, my recent sit downs with playwright CJ Hopkins and entertainers Right Said Fred also fall into this category). ABOUT MY GUESTS: First, here is their damning editorial, in "Unherd", from which this episode derives its title: https://www.unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/ THOMAS FAZI -- Journalist/writer/translator/socialist. He mostly spends his time in Rome, Italy. Amongst other things, he's the co-director of "Standing Army" (2010), an award-winning feature-length documentary on US military bases featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky; and the author of "The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent – and How We Can Take It Back" (Pluto Press, 2014) and "Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World" (co-authored with Bill Mitchell; Pluto Press, 2017). His articles have appeared in numerous online and printed publications. He can be contacted at the following address: battleforeurope[at]gmail.com. His Twitter account is @battleforeurope. You can also follow him on Facebook (though he mostly writes in Italian) and/or sign up to his Substack to receive updates about articles etc. TOBY GREEN -- formerly a journalist and travel writer, Toby is Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College London. His 2019 book "A Fistful of Shells" won the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the American Historical Association’s Jerry Bentley Prize in World History and the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown. Toby is the