Max Blumenthal is a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow and the Nation Books author of Republican Gomorrah, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. His recent TomDispatch essay was also published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Fresh Air interview with Max Blumenthal about "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party"
Responds to an interview of Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, with an analysis of the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If taken literally, God disapproves of homosexuality, but approves of fathers offering teenage daughters to be gang- raped, and then impregnating them himself. If taken allegorically, God retaliates against rebellious nations by enslaving and oppressing them.
Reads the poems "Beginners" by Denise Levertov and "Up" by Margaret Atwood. Examines the Amarna letters - diplomatic clay tablets sent to the Pharaohs from his Canaanite administrators complaining about the nomadic raiders and outlaws called the Habiru. Examines the evidence for whether Abraham was a mercenary warlord hired through the Pharaoh’s vassal, Kederlaomer, to put down the rebellion of Sodom and Gomorrah. Was Abraham the notorious jackal Abdi-Ashirta, who took the Pharaoh’s territories from the kings of Gezer, Byblos, Jerusalem, Jordan, and the rest of the Canaanite cities?
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Chef Heston Blumenthal popped into the Test Match Special commentary box on a rain affected day four and told Jonathan Agnew about his love for cricket as well as a recipe for perfect roast potatoes.