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How to Survive Living Next to Rome: John Ralston Saul on Canada, Trump and the Coming US Civil War

Podcast: Keen On America · Andrew Keen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

“Nobody in the United States wants to call it that. But I write history, and I know what a coup d’état looks like.” — John Ralston Saul As the leaves turn, it’s becoming Canada week. Yesterday we had the Newfoundland-based Paris Marx offering an incisive critique of American Big Tech. Today, it’s my old Canadian friend, John Ralston Saul — novelist, essayist, former president of PEN International — speaking to us from the top floor of his house in an autumnal Toronto. Like another frequent Canadian guest, Stephen Marche, Saul offers a sharp critique of...