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Episode 21: A How-To Guide to Thinking Through the Apocalypse
Wisdom of Crowds
English - June 16, 2020 04:14 - 50 minutes - 46 MBNews Commentary News Society & Culture Philosophy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Next Episode: Episode 22: Activism and Its Discontents (Live)
Shadi talks through his inner conflicts. Damir responds by minimizing the reality of what is happening. Also: why Americans are all fundamentalists (whether secular or religious), the appropriateness of activist-journalism, the empty symbolism of woke politics, and whether the New York Times should(n’t) be our lodestar.
Reading List:
“Our Deathwish” by Jacob Siegel (Tablet)
“The Coronavirus Killed the Revolution”, by Shadi Hamid (The Atlantic)
Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott