In 1947, mathematician Kurt Gödel believed he had found a loophole in the U.S. Constitution which would allow for a legal fascist dictatorship in the U.S. He never quite spelled out what that loophole was, but the Endless Thread team talked to a Gödel expert about what it might be.
Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson talk with philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
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