It Needs To Be Said with Robert Edwards, Author of Resisting the Right

Robert Edwards is the author of Resisting the Right: How to Survive the Gathering Storm, a handbook for confronting rising right-wing authoritarianism in the US, published in 2024—before Trump’s re-election—by OR Books. A filmmaker by trade, he’s a graduate of Stanford’s Masters Program in Documentary Film, and has co-directed or produced documentaries including The Last Laugh with his partner Ferne Pearlstein, and Death & Taxes with Justin Schein. Formerly he was an infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army, serving in Germany during the Cold War and as a captain in a parachute infantry regiment of the 82^ndAirborne in Iraq during the Gulf War. He also writes the weekly political blog The King’s Necktie.

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