Why Postliberalism Failed

Josef Tiso, Slovakia, and Collaboration


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James and Tom talk about Father Josef Tiso, who was dictator of Slovakia during the Second World War. During those years, Slovakia was a client state of the Third Reich, and Tiso was a wily, ambitious Catholic priest who saw to the deaths of between 50,000 - 95,000 Jews until his hanging in 1946. Afterwards, Slovakia, like Croatia, managed to endure the worst of both worlds, first fascism and then communism.

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Why Postliberalism FailedBy Thomas D. Howes & James M. Patterson