Between Past and Future

We talk with Ian Buruma, the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College and former editor of the The New York Review of Books, about the illiberal woke left. 

Ethan runs us through various election possibilities.  

We discuss the legal history of slavery in the English Colonies beginning with John Punch the first documented slave, John Casor and Anthony Johnson, and Elizabeth Key Grinstead.

We discuss the parallel between religious fundamentalism and Wokeism with Psychologists Valerie Tarico author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light.

We talk about an Antiracist struggle session in a New York City school council, and the new book "In Defense of Looting". 

We discuss the Jacob Blake shooting and subsequent fallout. 

We discuss California's Proposition 16 and affirmative action. Update on Hagia Sophia, and a look at the murdering of Trans Folk.

A follow up to the CHAZ/CHOP situation. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigns due to defund the police campaign.

We talk with Roger Berkowitz director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. We discuss the Harper's letter, the value of dangerous ideas, the purpose of politics, and the rise of proto-totalitarian movements.

We talk to Benjamin Boyce about what student takeover of Evergreen College in 2017. The resentment of art and genius, the inverted hierarchy of oppression, and the simultaneous desire for and rejection of authority. Benjamin's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm13xHVNFVwzHzK3QHSaZ3Q

We talk about the documentary The Problem with Apu and cartoon voice actor cancelling. This episode was recorded 2 weeks ago.

We talk with Paul about Christainty, Wokeism, God 1 and God 2, we discuss what power is, and how difficult it is to foster genuine community.

What happened in Seattle? Ethan and Rajdeep investigate to see if CHAZ/CHOP went Woke or Broke?

Rajdeep and Ethan talk with Deroy Murdock! We discuss statue toppling, what's going on in America's schools, and the Trump administrations global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality.

Ethan and Rajdeep introduce themselves, talk about how they met, and going to college during the birthing of Woke.