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Ralph welcomes back Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College to discuss the latest Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. Then, Ralph and our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, talk about what ordinary citizens can do to pressure their reps to impeach Donald Trump.Adolph Reed is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College. His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, No Politics but Class Politics (co-authored with Walter Benn Michaels), and Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time (co-authored with Kenneth W. Warren).I think the issues are a lot more complex than they seem to be or than seems to be the way that they are represented in the debate [over the Voting Rights Act]…To cut straight to the political case, I think there's a distinction between the Act's guarantee that black citizens and others (where pertinent) who live in areas where there's been a history of suppression of the right to vote have the support of the federal government to make certain that Black voters have the ability to vote for and to elect candidates of their choosing. Which is not the same thing as a right of Black individuals to be elected to office. And I think that's one of the confusions that characterizes, frankly, both sides of the debate at this point. And I think that's definitely something that needs to be clarified.Adolph ReedSome of my friends and I have been talking about this, and have been bouncing this idea back and forth since, frankly, even before the court handed down the [Louisiana v Callais] decision. In thinking about developments in black politics across the board, the idea that all that Black voters are supposed to get out of politics is the representation of people who look like them and share in the same racial identification has also fueled backward turns. Like how all of a sudden the biggest issue in Black American politics supposedly had become the racial wealth gap, which boils down to a complaint that rich Black people aren't as rich as rich white people are. So, yeah, shaking up or reshuffling the deck for how we might begin to try to determine the stakes of Black Americans' engagement in national politics is something that needs to happen. No matter what brings it about.Adolph ReedBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.My website is www.lawofficesofbrucefein.com and my email address is Bruce@feinpoints.com. And I'll respond and give you guidance as to how you can help be part of this effort to impeach and remove by far the most dangerous President in the history of the United States. And he's most dangerous to the world as well.Bruce FeinNews 5/8/26* Our top story this week comes to us from the Bulwark, which reports that dissatisfaction with Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin is reaching a fever pitch. Martin has faced criticism over the course of his tenure for reneging on his promise to release an autopsy on the 2024 presidential campaign and for his decidedly lackluster fundraising efforts. The DNC has reportedly “spent more money than it has raised” and “has more debt than cash on hand,” while the Republican National Committee enjoys a “roughly seven-to-one money advantage.” According to this report, high-level DNC members are now privately discussing ousting Martin, only tabling these discussions “after members failed to identify an alternative candidate willing to step into the role.” Martin's failures have even led Democrats to openly wonder “whether the 178-year-old committee should even exist anymore.” Martin was elected DNC Chair last year, beating out Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler, who helped rebuild the party and raise tremendous amounts of money in that critical swing state.* Speaking of money in politics, this week POLITICO released a damning report on End Citizens United, the good-government focused 501(c)(4) that has in past years been a “fundraising behemoth” but has now faded nearly into complete irrelevancy. The issues highlighted in this piece will be familiar to many who have worked in this world. Despite raising $14.8 million, the group's PAC arm is burning through the money more quickly than it can raise it, having just $324,000 on hand at the end of March. What are they spending the money on? According to POLITICO, about $650,000 has gone to candidates and party groups and about the same amount has been bundled. Meanwhile, payments to fundraising firms have eaten up an astonishing $5.3 million. This is just another case of Democratic Party aligned consulting firms run amok and growing fat off of small dollar donations.* Another disappointing story comes to us from the Teamsters. According to Bloomberg, the union has forfeited a hard-won union foothold – the first ever unionized Chipotle – following three years of battling the company and failing to secure a contract. A Teamsters local president said in an email to the National Labor Relations Board that the union “officially withdraws and disclaims interest” at the Lansing, Michigan location. Legally speaking, this means the company will no longer be “required to recognize or negotiate with the union.” The employees of this location voted to unionize in 2022 by a margin of 11-to-3. Chipotle corporate has been decried for seeking to bust this union, with Biden NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo accusing them of employing illegal anti-union tactics like “withholding raises from the store's staff and telling workers that the union was keeping their pay frozen…[and punishing] a pro-union employee to discourage activism.” However, it was the Teamsters themselves who ultimately gave up, paving the way for the demise of the workers' heroic stand against corporate power. As the saying goes, with friends like these.* In more positive political news, during the Washington DC mayoral debate last week, the Washington Post reports democratic socialist mayoral hopeful Janeese Lewis George seemed to endorse the idea of opening municipal grocery stores in DC food deserts, including the impoverished and majority Black Wards 7 and 8. Asked about this topic, Councilmember Lewis George committed to bringing at least one more grocery store to Ward 7 and at least two more to Ward 8, noting that she would seek to shore up investor confidence with public dollars. If private options do not materialize however, she vowed that “we will work towards” a publicly-owned store. Municipally-owned grocery stores were a much publicized part of the Zohran Mamdani campaign platform and, if Lewis George is elected, his success or failure in carrying out that pledge is sure to impact her decision making on this issue.* Meanwhile, in media news, the New York Times reports Lupa Systems – the private holding company representing the interests of James Murdoch, son of conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch – is “in talks to acquire major parts of Vox Media.” Vox, founded in the 2010s by journalists Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell, now owns major media properties including New York magazine, the Verge, Eater and a podcast network featuring Kara Swisher and others. Murdoch, through Lupa, owns a “majority stake in Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival.” Additionally, the Times notes that Quadrivium, the foundation founded by Mr. Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, has financial interests in “The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom focused on gender and politics, and The Bulwark, a so-called ‘Never Trump' digital media company.” James Murdoch, along with his sister Elisabeth, are seen as far more liberal than the Murdoch patriarch and his other son, Lachlan, who together successfully ousted the other family members from control of the family trust in a recent legal battle.* Turning to international news, yet another deadlocked presidential election in Peru is looming. A new Ipsos poll, taken near the end of April, shows an exact 50-50 split between the two candidates in the runoff: the left-wing member of Congress Roberto Sánchez and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. This election was always going to be close – Peruvian politics have been deadlocked for years, resulting in ultra-narrow presidential victories frequently followed by impeachments. Fujimori has been a runoff candidate in every presidential election going back to 2011, losing each by extremely narrow margins. Most recently, she lost to Pedro Castillo by a margin of 50.13% to 49.87% in 2021. Castillo however was thwarted by, and ultimately ousted by, the Congress. The runoff will be held on June 7th.* In India, the Left suffered catastrophic defeats in this week's state elections, Al Jazeera reports. The state of Kerala – “the first in the world to have a democratically elected communist government” and “the last state in India where communists were in power” – will now be led by the United Democratic Front, a coalition headed by the Congress party, which won over 100 out of 140 seats. The Left bloc will likely capture around 35 seats. Beyond Kerala however, the Left has seen setbacks throughout the country, with no state now being ruled by the Left for the first time since 1977 and the national parliamentary Left bloc declining from 62 in the 2004 election to just eight seats today. Different factors are cited for the general decline of the Left in India, including an inability to adapt Marxist analysis to non class-related issues in the country, such as caste and gender, as well as the decline of industrial trade unions and a general trend towards Right-wing Hindu nationalism. Hopefully, the Left will take this electoral rout as an opportunity to rebuild itself into a viable force for 21st century Indian politics.* Turning to East Asia, the Financial Times reports North Korea has subtly revised its constitution to drop references to reunification of the two Koreas. Specifically, the new text reads “the territory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea includes the territory bordering the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south, and the territorial sea and airspace established on it”. In acknowledging the existence of the Republic of Korea, more commonly known as South Korea, experts see a move away from the long-held North Korean contention that the peninsula is a single country illegally partitioned. The revision was “disclosed by an academic at a press conference hosted by the South Korean Ministry of Unification on Wednesday.” Though this article notes that “North Korea has not made any comment on the revised constitution and the source of the text revealed by the unification ministry was not disclosed,” it highlights that Kim Jong-un has increasingly moved in this direction in recent years, renaming Tongil (“reunification”) metro station in Pyongyang and dismantling an Arch of Reunification monument.* Our last two stories have to do with the People's Republic of China. First, Reuters reports China's Commerce Ministry has issued an injunction to “block U.S. ​sanctions imposed on five Chinese refiners accused ‌of buying Iranian oil.” Hengli Petrochemical, one of the five small “teapot” refineries primarily located in China's Shandong province, was slapped with sanctions last month, when the Trump administration accused the company of purchasing billions ​of dollars in Iranian oil. The other four have been sanctioned since last year. However, the Ministry now argues that the sanctions violate “international law and ‌the ⁠basic norms of international relations,” and with the injunction in place, “the United States cannot recognize, ​implement, or comply ​with the ⁠sanctions imposed on the aforementioned five Chinese companies.” This is perhaps the most significant challenge to the American-led international sanctions regime in decades and whatever reaction issues from the U.S. will surely inform other states on just how far they can go in flouting such sanctions.* Finally, in a stunning legal decision, Fortune reports Chinese courts have ruled that “companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems.” The case in question hinged on whether a tech firm in eastern China had acted illegally when firing one of its workers, a “quality assurance professional…identified only as Zhou” after he “refused to take a demotion” and a 40% pay cut, when his job was automated by AI. The court found that the termination did not meet established standards, such as business downsizing or operational difficulties, and the court separately stated that “Companies cannot unilaterally lay off employees or cut salaries due to technological progress.” This stunning legal victory for workers in the face of challenges by technology is bittersweet – heartening in that it's happening at all, yet at the same time depressing because it is almost impossible to imagine an equivalent worker protection regime being implemented in the United States.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Walter Benn Michaels talks about the present political moment with Class Unity. You can find one of our favorite essays by him here: https://nonsite.org/the-political-economy-of-anti-racism/ And you can find his most recent book with Adolph Reed Jr. here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/no-politics-but-class-politics/9781912475575 Consider joining or making a donation today: https://classunity.org

Ein Vortrag des Erziehungswissenschaftlers Markus Rieger-LadichModeration: Katja Weber **********"Ich als alter weißer Mann..." - diese Aussage signalisiert: Ich bin auf der Höhe der Zeit, ich kenne die gängigen Diskurse. Aber als ritualisierte Beichte bringt diese Erkenntnis gar nichts, meint der Erziehungswissenschaftler Markus Rieger-Ladich.Markus Rieger-Ladich ist Professor für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft an der Universität Tübingen. 2022 erschien sein Band "Das Privileg. Kampfvokabel und Erkenntnisinstrument". Seinen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Was heißt hier Privileg? - Privilegienkritik neu gedacht" hat er auf Einladung des Hörsaals am 11. Oktober 2024 anlässlich des Pocast-Festivals Beats & Bones gehalten. **********Schlagworte: +++ Freiheitsrechte +++ Menschenrechte +++ Feminismus +++ Klassismus +++ Status +++ Soziologie +++ Erziehungswissenschaftler +++ Tradition +++**********Ihr hört in diesem Hörsaal:00:02:20 - Gespräch vor dem Vortrag und was Rieger-Ladichs Oma damit zu tun hat00:08:04 - Beginn Vortrag: Einleitung, These und Überblick00:10:33 - Privileg aus rechtstheoretischer Perspektive00:16:41 - Der Begriff Privileg in der Bildungssoziologie der 1960er und 1970er Jahre00:17:49 - Privilegienkritik als Kampfbegriff in emanzipatorischen Bewegungen00:38:30 - Herausforderungen für einen Neustart der Debatte00: 42:32 - Publikumsfragen nach dem Vortrag**********Empfehlungen aus der Folge:Mohamed Amjahid. Unter Weißen. Was es heißt, privilegiert zu sein. München: Hanser Berlin 2017.Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte: Privilegien. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 2024.Rolf Becker/Wolfgang Lauterbach (Hrsg.): Bildung als Privileg. Erklärungen und Befunde zu den Ursachen der Bildungsungleichheit. 5., erweitere Auflage. Wiesbaden: SpringerVS 2016.Pierre Bourdieu/Jean-Claude Passeron. Die Illusion der Chancengleichheit: Untersuchungen zur Sozio-logie des Bildungswesens am Beispiel Frankreichs. Stuttgart: Klett 1971.Pierre Bourdieu. Bildung. Aus dem Französischen von Barbara Picht u.a. Mit einem Nachwort von Markus Rieger-Ladich. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2018.Esme Choonara/Yuri Prasad. Der Irrweg der Privilegientheorie. In: International Socialism 142 (2020), S. 83-110.Combahee River Collective. Ein Schwarzes feministisches Statement (1977). In: Natascha A. Kelly (Hrsg.): Schwarzer Feminismus. Grundlagentexte. Münster: Unrast 2019, S. 47-60.Didier Eribon. Betrachtungen zur Schwulenfrage. Aus dem Französischen von Bernd Schwibs und Achim Russer. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019.Roxane Gay. Fragwürdige Privilegien. In: Dies.: Bad Feminist. Essays. München: btb 2019, S. 31-36.Michael S. Kimmel/Abby L. Ferber (Hrsg.): Privilege. A Reader. New York: Routledge 2017.Maria-Sibylla Lotter. Ich bin schuldig, weil ich bin (weiß, männlich und bürgerlich). Politik als Läuterungsdiskurs. In: Herwig Grimm/Stephan Schleissig (Hrsg.): Moral und Schuld. Exkulpationsnarrative in Ethikdebatten. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019, S. 67-86.Peggy McIntosh. Weißsein als Privileg. Die Privilege Papers. Nachwort von Markus Rieger-Ladich. Ditzingen: Reclam 2024.Walter Benn Michaels. Der Trubel um Diversität. Wie wir lernten, Identitäten zu lieben und Ungleichheiten zu ignorieren. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Christoph Hesse. Berlin: Tiamat 2021.Linda Martín Alcoff. Das Problem, für andere zu sprechen. Ditzingen: Reclam 2023.Charles W. Mills. Weißes Nichtwissen. In: Kristina Lepold/Marina Martinez Mateo (Hrsg.): Critical Philosophy of Race. Ein Reader. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2021, S. 180-216,Heinz Mohnhaupt. Privilegien als Sonderrechte in europäischen Rechtsordnungen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Frankfurt/Main: Klostermann 2024.Heinz Mohnhaupt/Barbara Dölemeyer (Hrsg.): Das Privileg im europäischen Vergleich. 2 Bände. Frankfurt/Main: Klostermann 1997/1999.Toni Morrison. Die Herkunft der Anderen. Über Rasse, Rassismus und Literatur. Mit einem Vorwort von Ta-Nehisi Coates. Aus dem Englischen von Thomas Piltz. Reinbek: Rowohlt 2018.Markus Rieger-Ladich. Identitätsdebatte oder: Das Comeback des Privilegs. In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 66 (2021), S. 97-104.Markus Rieger-Ladich. Das Privileg. Kampfvokabel und Erkenntnisinstrument. Ditzingen: Reclam 2022.Markus Rieger-Ladich. Privilegien. In: Merkur 77 (2023), Heft 889, S. 71-80.Markus Rieger-Ladich. Neustart der Privilegienkritik. Ein Plädoyer. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 21 (2024), S. 4-10.Jörg Scheller. (Un)Check Your Privilege. Wie die Debatte um Privilegien Gerechtigkeit verhindert. Stuttgart: Hirzel 2022.Steffen Vogel. Das Erbe von 68: Identitätspolitik als Kulturrevolution. In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 66 (2021), S. 97-104.Katharina Walgenbach. Bildungsprivilegien im 21. Jahrhundert. In: Meike Sophia Baader/Tatjana Freytag (Hrsg.): Bildung und Ungleichheit in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS 2017, S. 513-536. **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Soziologie: Freundschaften hängen auch vom Geldbeutel abSoziologie: Warum die Klimakrise polarisiertSoziologie: Geld als Kriegsmittel - Wie effektiv das ist**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok auf&ab , TikTok wie_geht und Instagram .

Theory Underground brings on one of the most powerful critics of the woke racial politics that currently dominate academic PMC theory circles. How to be critical of the pseudo progressive left's fixation on DEI (Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X Kendi) style social change without becoming a Matt Walsh style anti-woke douchebag? Find out, with our amazing guest Walter Benn Michaels. Pick up a copy of No Politics but Class Politics today: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/no-politics-but-class-politics/9781912475575 And check out The Trouble With Diversity: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Diversity-Learned-Identity-Inequality/dp/0805083316   ABOUT Theory Underground is a research, publishing, and lecture institute. TU exists to develop the concept of timenergy in the context of critical social theory (CST). To get basically situated in this field you will have to know a handful of important figures from a bunch of areas of the humanities and social sciences. That would be a lot of work for you if not for the fact that Dave, Ann, and Mikey are consolidating hundreds of thousands of hours of effort into a pirate TV-radio-press that goes on tours and throws conferences and stuff. Enjoy a ton of its content here for free or get involved to access courses and the ongoing research seminars.  GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT  Join live sessions and unlock past courses and forums on the TU Discord by becoming a member via the monthly subscription! It's the hands-down best way to get the most out of the content if you are excited to learn the field and become a thinker in the milieu: https://theoryunderground.com/products/tu-subscription-tiers Pledge support to the production of the free content on YouTube and Podcast https://www.patreon.com/TheoryUnderground Fund the publishing work via the TU Substack, where original works by the TU writers is featured alongside original works by Slavoj Zizek, Todd McGowan, Chris Cutrone, Nina Power, Alenka Zupancic, et al. https://theoryunderground.substack.com/ Get TU books at a discount: https://theoryunderground.com/publications CREDITS / LINKS Missed a course at Theory Underground? Wrong! Courses at Theory Underground are available after the fact on demand via the membership. https://theoryunderground.com/courses If you want to help TU in a totally gratuitous way, or support, here is a way to buy something concrete and immediately useful https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MAWFYUJQIM58? Buy Dave and Ann a coffee date: https://www.venmo.com/u/theoryunderground  https://paypal.me/theorypleeb If Theory Underground has helped you see that text-to-speech technologies are a useful way of supplementing one's reading while living a busy life, if you want to be able to listen to PDFs for yourself, then Speechify is recommended. Use the link below and Theory Underground gets credit! https://share.speechify.com/mzwBHEB  Follow Theory Underground on Duolingo: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTP747NSNMAOYEI  See Theory Underground memes and get occasional updates or thoughts via the Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theory_underground MUSIC CREDITS Logo sequence music by https://olliebeanz.com/music https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode Mike Chino, Demigods https://youtu.be/M6wruxDngOk  

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya and Kenan Malik, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachael Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya, Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. Kenan Malik is a writer and commentator on race, a columnist for the Observer newspaper, and most recently author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. In the second of our 'Race Reckoning' interviews, Kenan discusses the recent history of antiracism and identity politics, the logic antiracists risk having in common with the racists they abhor, and the political significance of 'left antisemitism'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Full video of all three shows is streaming on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod now. Adolph Reed jnr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachel Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Full video streaming now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Kenan Malik is a writer and commentator on race, a columnist for the Observer newspaper, and most recently author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. In the second of our 'Race Reckoning' interviews, Kenan discusses the recent history of antiracism and identity politics, the logic antiracists risk having in common with the racists they abhor, and the political significance of 'left antisemitism'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and many more extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

On Martin Hägglund's This Life. We continue on the theme of freedom by discussing Martin Hägglund's case for 'democratic socialism'. In this episode, we leave the book itself to one side and attempt to "put the concepts to work".  We survey the many intelligent responses the book has generated and discuss what their strengths and weaknesses are.   Is 'secular faith' just a therapeutic ethos to do with caring about your loved ones? What guarantees that we will use our free time appropriately? Why would we work freely for others? How does Hägglund's vision work on a global scale? What kind of post-capitalist “state” does Hagglund actually propose? Does Hägglund evade class struggle? Does he have any vision of agency? For access to the Reading Club, join for $10/mo at patreon.com/bungacast Readings: Limited Time: On Martin Hägglund's This Life, Robert Pippin – and response by Martin Hägglund (pdf) Response 2: The Problem of Agency, Lea Ypi, The Philosopher Socialism For Our Time: Freedom, Value, Transition, Conall Cash, Boundary2 (esp. Sections IV and V) LA Review of Books symposium. Pieces by Walter Benn Michaels, Benjamin Kunkel, William Clare Roberts and three-part response by Hägglund: 1, 2, 3  

In episode 43 we are honoured to be joined by Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, long time organizer, and prolific scholar. We discuss the collapse of the Left in North America, the Nexus as the 'left wing of neoliberalism', race reductionism, identiarianism, and the need to work toward a politics of solidarity and class consciousness.  SHOW NOTES Class Matters Podcast The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph Reed Jr. No Politics but Class Politics by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. The Trouble with Disparityby Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr. Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine by Adolph Reed Jr. The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States by Mark Dudzic and Adolph Reed Jr. Racecraft by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields Race, Culture, and Evolution by George W. Stocking, Jr. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein   Follow Fucking Cancelled on Patreon & Instagram. Find merch on our BigCartel. Also check out Clementine's Patreon & Clementine's website. Check out Jay's website too. Theme song by ST x LIAM. Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. Free transcripts are added on Patreon as they become available.

In this episode we were joined by none other than Professor Walter Benn Michaels, the author of 'The Trouble with Diversity: How we learned to love identity and ignore inequality'. We talked about the rise of left neoliberalism and why it is wrong; the history of the civil rights movement and why it moved away from socialism; the material roots and role of racism in society; the role of Universities in marginalizing class analysis; the failure of the left to present an alternative analysis; the myth of 'class reductionism'; and how liberal anti-racism and all forms of progressive identity politics ultimately function to undermine socialism and aid capitalism. An extremely provocative episode with one of the best socialist thinkers around.

I talk to Walter Benn Michaels, author of ‘The Trouble with Diversity,‘ about how he became disillusioned, first with diversity, and then with capitalism. Also discussed: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'White Fragility.' Support Changed My Mind at https://www.patreon.com/changedmymind Email us at changedmymindpod@gmail.com Check out my Substack at https://luketharrington.substack.com

Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels join The Jacobin Show to discuss the limitations of focusing on racial disparities, why the notion that Black Lives Matter was co-opted is misleading, and how socialists today should approach history. Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from August 4, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting. Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

The hosts of the This Is Revolution Podcast join Douglas Lain to discuss the socialism of Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels. This is Revolution is a new addition to the Zero Books lineup, coming out on the channel every Wednesday with great conversations about socialism and the left.

Listen now | Greetings from Jay’s 95-degree basement! This week, we give our takes on Jessica Krug, the historian caught assuming a series of brown and Black identities; respond to a provocation by Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels on racial disparities; and dig into the human-rights-violating(?) remake of "Mulan." Get on the email list at goodbye.substack.com

The ladies discuss the situation with CHAZ, the crackdown on confederate statues and cop shows, and Chuck Wendig getting cancelled. Related reading and viewing below. Amanda Hess, The Protests come for 'Paw Patrol'  Matt Taibbi, The American Press is Destroying Itself The Bellows, Conversation with Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels

Listen now (102 min) | This week we consider the hit Netlfix TV show Never Have I Ever and then later launch into an examination of race, class, and neoliberalism, with help from some essays by Walter Benn Michaels. As with many of these early episodes, we’re laying a groundwork for future thinking. We hope you enjoy the episode. If you haven’t yet, subscribe to our substack (beautifullosers.substack.com) and join in on the conversation. Rate us on Apple Podcasts (or elsewhere) and share the show with your friends. We’re looking forward to building the community with you. Get on the email list at beautifullosers.substack.com

For episode 5 of EBL, the crew assembles to discuss the controversial 1982 article "Against Theory" by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels. The article is a critical attack on the enterprise, possibility and desirability of Literary Theory.

Are you sick of novels that are way too chill with their symbolism? Do you want a novel that has no chill at all? That blasts its symbolism on pretty much every page? Then Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) may be the book for you. We talk masculinity and the phallus, the First World War, bullfighting, and whether Hemingway was for real with this thing. (Answer: yeah, probably?) Also, Megan thinks “the fishing stuff is dope.” We read the Scribner edition. For more on American modernism and economic inequality, check out Walter Benn Michaels’s Our America. Find us on Twitter and Instagram @betterreadpod, and email us nice things at betterreadpodcast@gmail.com. Find Tristan on Twitter @tjschweiger, Katie @katiekrywo, and Megan @tuslersaurus.

Why is it islamophobic to think that Ilhan Omar is anti-semitic? Because Roland Barthes was wrong in "Death of the Author." We bring Walter Benn Michaels' "Against Theory" to bear on the faux-outrage against Omar and critique AOC's weak support. Then, we talk about our very different public high school experiences - different in terms of class - and the recent college admissions scandal. Closing song: bloothirsty butchers - デストロイヤー [Destroyer]

Continuing on "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967) and "What Is an Author?" by Michel Foucault (1969), and finally getting to “Against Theory” by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels (1982). What could it mean to say that a text, once written, speaks itself? We get into Foucault's critique of the cult of the author and the reader-centric types of analysis he proposes in its place. Plus, Knapp and Michaels's poem written by natural forces on a rock. Crazy stuff! Listen to part 1 first, or get the Citizen Edition plus citizen access to part 3. End song: "The Auteur" by David J (2018). Listen to Mark's interview with him soon at nakedlyexaminedmusic.com. Sponsor: Visit thegreatcoursesplus.com/PEL for a one-month free trial of The Great Courses Plus Video Learning Service.

On four essays about how to interpret artworks: “The Intentional Fallacy” by W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley (1946), "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes (1967), "What is an Author?" by Michel Foucault (1969), and “Against Theory” by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels (1982). When you're trying to figure out what, say, a poem means, isn't the best way to do that to just ask the author? Most of these guys say no, and that's supposed to reveal something about the nature of meaning. No need to wait for part 2. Support us for access to the ad-free, unbroken Citizen Edition plus a one-hour follow-up conversation. Sponsors: Rover.com/partiallyexamined, code "partiallyexamined" = $25 off pet care, storyworth.com/pel for $20 off. partiallyexaminedlife.com/sjc to learn about St. John's College.

We're currently in between Season 1 and Season 2, so we've decided to take the opportunity to reproduce the "Anti-Essentialism Series" from the summer of 2017 in a more linear and coherent fashion. Old and new listeners, alike, will benefit from this presentation that will unfold over the next week, which develops a critical analysis of the relationship between capitalism and the creation of marginalized identities (race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.) Joining me this week to continue our Anti-Essentialism Series is Walter Benn Michaels. We talk about the transformation of race science to cultural essentialism, and why we love diversity and hate inequality. Walter is a distinguished literary and social critic, and one of the leading theorists of anti-essentialism, so you won't want to miss this interview. Walter's most relevant book, The Trouble with Diversity, can be found here: www.amazon.com/Trouble-Diversity…ity/dp/0805083316 -"The Political Economy of Anti-Racism," http://nonsite.org/article/the-political-economy-of-anti-racism ****This is the free version of this week's interview. To get the full 1hr45min version, head over to www.patreon.com/deadpundits and smash that subscribe button**** ----------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Soundcloud: @deadpundits Facebook: www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits

Joining me this week to continue our "Anti-Essentialism Series, Summer 2017" is Walter Benn Michaels. We talk about the transformation of race science to cultural essentialism, and why we love diversity and hate inequality. Walter is a distinguished literary and social critic, and one of the leading theorists of anti-essentialism, so you won't want to miss this interview. Walter's most relevant book, The Trouble with Diversity, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Diversity-Learned-Identity-Inequality/dp/0805083316 ****This is the free version of this week's interview. To get the full 1hr45min version, head over to www.patreon.com/deadpundits and smash that subscribe button**** -------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Facebook: www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214