Breaking the Cycle of Political Violence

Does political violence ever help a social cause? Zayd Ayers Dohrn, playwright and host of Crooked’s “Mother Country Radicals,” joins Offline to discuss the complicated legacy of radical activism in America. In his new book, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, Zayd dives even deeper into the morally ambiguous decisions made by his parents…two founding members of the notorious Weather Underground. He and Jon contemplate what activist actions lead to mass alienation vs. adoption of ideals, why a generation of Americans gravitated towards political violence in the 1970s…and why it’s happening again today.

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