This time we've got Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on to discuss his book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). We talk about how this cooption process has happened, how to counter it without falling victim to irritable knee-jerk anti-"wokeness," what identity politics originally meant, and more. Enjoy!
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Episode 132 - Tara Isabella Burton & Strange Rites
Episode 131 PREVIEW - The Coronavirus General Strike
Episode 130 - Rohan Grey on #MintTheCoin
Episode 129 - NOlympics with Anne Orchier
Episode 128 UNLOCKED - Epidemic Solidarity with Manu Saadia
Episode 127 - A.C. Grayling on Democracy
Episode 125 - The Case Against Joe Biden
Episode 124 PREVIEW - Super Tuesday and Warren Drops Out
Episode 123 - Interview with PA-175 Candidate Jeff Dempsey
Episode 122 PREVIEW - Nevada Results, the Sanders Coalition, and Pete Buttigieg
Episode 121 - The American Midwest with Phil Christman
Episode 120 Preview - The Bloomberg Menace
Episode 119 - Why It Matters if Bernie Sanders Becomes President
Episode 118 - Bernie Won Iowa
Episode 117 PREVIEW - The Socialist Anti-Imperialism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Episode 116 - The Problem with Economics, with Max and Zak Alvarez
Episode 115 UNLOCKED - The Bernie-Warren Flap
Episode 114 - Losing the War, by Lee Sandlin
Episode 113 PREVIEW - The Soleimani Assassination with Derek Davison
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