Podcasts about wokeness

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In this episode of the Programming Lions podcast, we host Pablo Valenzuela, a 17-year-old senior in high school, to discuss his unique views on anarchism and communism. Pablo delves into the core concepts of Marxism, communism, and anarchism, providing detailed explanations and defending his positions. The discussion covers a range of topics from historical analysis, successful and failed experiments in communism, the role of government, and the practicality of communist ideologies in today's world. Join us for an extensive and thought-provoking conversation that challenges common perceptions and explores alternative views on governance and society.Links:IG: @pablooninsta102TIMELINE00:00 Intro01:47 Meet Pablo: The Young Anarcho-Communist03:39 Diving into Marxism, Communism, and Anarchism06:58 Common Critiques of Communism10:03 Anarchism Explained12:34 Historical Context and Misconceptions20:26 Communism vs. Capitalism31:30 Understanding Private Property in Communism35:11 Modern Applications and Challenges48:20 Homelessness and Housing Under Communism55:21 The Drive for Wealth and Innovation55:58 Debating AI and Human Dignity56:38 The Coffee Shop Dilemma57:33 Marx's Petite Bourgeoisie58:59 Surplus Food and Capitalist Incentives01:00:25 Labor, Purpose, and Human Nature01:01:34 Alienation from Labor01:10:30 Communism vs. Capitalism01:19:00 The Role of Class Consciousness01:38:32 Revolution and Mutual Aid01:42:30 Understanding Class Struggle01:42:52 Role of Education and Mutual Aid01:43:18 Anarcho-Nihilism and Revolution01:44:02 Transitionary War and Wealth Redistribution01:45:00 Real World Changes and Healthcare Policy01:46:13 Moral Imperatives and Self-Defense01:47:43 Debating the Impact of Billionaires01:52:43 Communism vs. Individualism01:53:45 Labor and Exploitation02:00:13 Cultural and Systemic Issues02:02:31 Communism and Personal Experience02:09:58 Government Spending and Military Budget02:24:09 Philosophical Perspectives on Wealth02:31:23 Debating Socialism vs. One World Order02:31:49 Marx's Vision of Global Socialism02:32:35 Critique of State Capitalist Revolutions02:33:44 Communist Elements in Modern Systems02:34:37 Misconceptions About Communism02:36:11 Common Ground02:37:45 The Importance of Diverse Sources02:40:46 Challenges in Academia and Peer Review02:44:26 Debating Gender Ideology02:47:54 The Role of Wokeness and Queer Liberation02:51:50 Identity Politics and Class Consciousness03:00:59 Historical Analysis of Communism03:16:24 Encouragement to Research and Understand03:19:06 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

It's a small world. The great David Rieff came to my San Francisco studio today for in person interview about his new anti-woke polemic Desire and Fate. And half way through our conversation, he brought up Daniel Bessner's This Is America piece which Bessner discussed on yesterday's show. I'm not sure what that tells us about wokeness, a subject which Rieff and I aren't in agreement. For him, it's the thing-in-itself which make sense of our current cultural malaise. Thus Desire and Fate, his attempt (with a great intro from John Banville) to wake us up from Wokeness. For me, it's a distraction. I've included the full transcript below. Lots of good stuff to chew on. Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS * Rieff views "woke" ideology as primarily American and post-Protestant in nature, rather than stemming solely from French philosophy, emphasizing its connections to self-invention and subjective identity.* He argues that woke culture threatens high culture but not capitalism, noting that corporations have readily embraced a "baudlerized" version of identity politics that avoids class discussions.* Rieff sees woke culture as connected to the wellness movement, with both sharing a preoccupation with "psychic safety" and the metaphorical transformation of experience in which "words” become a form of “violence."* He suggests young people's material insecurity contributes to their focus on identity, as those facing bleak economic prospects turn inward when they "can't make their way in the world."* Rieff characterizes woke ideology as "apocalyptic but not pessimistic," contrasting it with his own genuine pessimism which he considers more realistic about human nature and more cheerful in its acceptance of life's limitations. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello everybody, as we digest Trump 2.0, we don't talk that much these days about woke and woke ideology. There was a civil war amongst progressives, I think, on the woke front in 2023 and 2024, but with Donald Trump 2.0 and his various escapades, let's just talk these days about woke. We have a new book, however, on the threat of woke by my guest, David Rieff. It's called Desire and Fate. He wrote it in 2023, came out in late 2024. David's visiting the Bay Area. He's an itinerant man traveling from the East Coast to Latin America and Europe. David, welcome to Keen on America. Do you regret writing this book given what's happened in the last few months in the United States?David Rieff: No, not at all, because I think that the road to moral and intellectual hell is trying to censor yourself according to what you think is useful. There's a famous story of Jean Paul Sartre that he said to the stupefaction of a journalist late in his life that he'd always known about the gulag, and the journalist pretty surprised said, well, why didn't you say anything? And Sartre said so as not to demoralize the French working class. And my own view is, you know, you say what you have to say about this and if I give some aid and comfort to people I don't like, well, so be it. Having said that, I also think a lot of these woke ideas have their, for all of Trump's and Trump's people's fierce opposition to woke, some of the identity politics, particularly around Jewish identity seems to me not that very different from woke. Strangely they seem to have taken, for example, there's a lot of the talk about anti-semitism on college campuses involves student safety which is a great woke trope that you feel unsafe and what people mean by that is not literally they're going to get shot or beaten up, they mean that they feel psychically unsafe. It's part of the kind of metaphorization of experience that unfortunately the United States is now completely in the grips of. But the same thing on the other side, people like Barry Weiss, for example, at the Free Press there, they talk in the same language of psychic safety. So I'm not sure there's, I think there are more similarities than either side is comfortable with.Andrew Keen: You describe Woke, David, as a cultural revolution and you associated in the beginning of the book with something called Lumpen-Rousseauism. As we joked before we went live, I'm not sure if there's anything in Rousseau which isn't Lumpen. But what exactly is this cultural revolution? And can we blame it on bad French philosophy or Swiss French?David Rieff: Well, Swiss-French philosophy, you know exactly. There is a funny anecdote, as I'm sure you know, that Rousseau made a visit to Edinburgh to see Hume and there's something in Hume's diaries where he talks about Rousseau pacing up and down in front of the fire and suddenly exclaiming, but David Hume is not a bad man. And Hume notes in his acerbic way, Rousseau was like walking around without his skin on. And I think some of the woke sensitivity stuff is very much people walking around without their skin on. They can't stand the idea of being offended. I don't see it as much - of course, the influence of that version of cultural relativism that the French like Deleuze and Guattari and other people put forward is part of the story, but I actually see it as much more of a post-Protestant thing. This idea, in that sense, some kind of strange combination of maybe some French philosophy, but also of the wellness movement, of this notion that health, including psychic health, was the ultimate good in a secular society. And then the other part, which again, it seems to be more American than French, which is this idea, and this is particularly true in the trans movement, that you can be anything you want to be. And so that if you feel yourself to be a different gender, well, that's who you are. And what matters is your own subjective sense of these things, and it's up to you. The outside world has no say in it, it's what you feel. And that in a sense, what I mean by post-Protestant is that, I mean, what's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism? The fundamental difference is, it seems to me, that in Roman Catholic tradition, you need the priest to intercede with God, whereas in Protestant tradition, it is, except for the Anglicans, but for most of Protestantism, it's you and God. And in that sense it seems to me there are more of what I see in woke than this notion that some of the right-wing people like Chris Rufo and others have that this is cultural French cultural Marxism making its insidious way through the institutions.Andrew Keen: It's interesting you talk about the Protestant ethic and you mentioned Hume's remark about Rousseau not having his skin on. Do you think that Protestantism enabled people to grow thick skins?David Rieff: I mean, the Calvinist idea certainly did. In fact, there were all these ideas in Protestant culture, at least that's the classical interpretation of deferred gratification. Capitalism was supposed to be the work ethic, all of that stuff that Weber talks about. But I think it got in the modern version. It became something else. It stopped being about those forms of disciplines and started to be about self-invention. And in a sense, there's something very American about that because after all you know it's the Great Gatsby. It's what's the famous sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's: there are no second acts in American lives.Andrew Keen: This is the most incorrect thing anyone's ever said about America. I'm not sure if he meant it to be incorrect, did he? I don't know.David Rieff: I think what's true is that you get the American idea, you get to reinvent yourself. And this notion of the dream, the dream become reality. And many years ago when I was spending a lot of time in LA in the late 80s, early 90s, at LAX, there was a sign from the then mayor, Tom Bradley, about how, you know, if you can dream it, it can be true. And I think there's a lot in identitarian woke idea which is that we can - we're not constricted by history or reality. In fact, it's all the present and the future. And so to me again, woke seems to me much more recognizable as something American and by extension post-Protestant in the sense that you see the places where woke is most powerful are in the other, what the encampment kids would call settler colonies, Australia and Canada. And now in the UK of course, where it seems to me by DI or EDI as they call it over there is in many ways stronger in Britain even than it was in the US before Trump.Andrew Keen: Does it really matter though, David? I mean, that's my question. Does it matter? I mean it might matter if you have the good or the bad fortune to teach at a small, expensive liberal arts college. It might matter with some of your dinner parties in Tribeca or here in San Francisco, but for most people, who cares?David Rieff: It doesn't matter. I think it matters to culture and so what you think culture is worth, because a lot of the point of this book was to say there's nothing about woke that threatens capitalism, that threatens the neo-liberal order. I mean it's turning out that Donald Trump is a great deal bigger threat to the neoliberal order. Woke was to the contrary - woke is about talking about everything but class. And so a kind of baudlerized, de-radicalized version of woke became perfectly fine with corporate America. That's why this wonderful old line hard lefty Adolph Reed Jr. says somewhere that woke is about diversifying the ruling class. But I do think it's a threat to high culture because it's about equity. It's about representation. And so elite culture, which I have no shame in proclaiming my loyalty to, can't survive the woke onslaught. And it hasn't, in my view. If you look at just the kinds of books that are being written, the kinds of plays that are been put on, even the opera, the new operas that are being commissioned, they're all about representing the marginalized. They're about speaking for your group, whatever that group is, and doing away with various forms of cultural hierarchy. And I'm with Schoenberg: if it's for everybody, if it's art, Schoenberg said it's not for everybody, and if it's for everybody it's not art. And I think woke destroys that. Woke can live with schlock. I'm sorry, high culture can live with schlock, it always has, it always will. What it can't live with is kitsch. And by which I mean kitsch in Milan Kundera's definition, which is to have opinions that you feel better about yourself for holding. And that I think is inimical to culture. And I think woke is very destructive of those traditions. I mean, in the most obvious sense, it's destructive of the Western tradition, but you know, the high arts in places like Japan or Bengal, I don't think it's any more sympathetic to those things than it is to Shakespeare or John Donne or whatever. So yeah, I think it's a danger in that sense. Is it a danger to the peace of the world? No, of course not.Andrew Keen: Even in cultural terms, as you explain, it is an orthodoxy. If you want to work with the dominant cultural institutions, the newspapers, the universities, the publishing houses, you have to play by those rules, but the great artists, poets, filmmakers, musicians have never done that, so all it provides, I mean you brought up Kundera, all it provides is something that independent artists, creative people will sneer at, will make fun of, as you have in this new book.David Rieff: Well, I hope they'll make fun of it. But on the other hand, I'm an old guy who has the means to sneer. I don't have to please an editor. Someone will publish my books one way or another, whatever ones I have left to write. But if you're 25 years old, maybe you're going to sneer with your pals in the pub, but you're gonna have to toe the line if you want to be published in whatever the obvious mainstream place is and you're going to be attacked on social media. I think a lot of people who are very, young people who are skeptical of this are just so afraid of being attacked by their peers on various social media that they keep quiet. I don't know that it's true that, I'd sort of push back on that. I think non-conformists will out. I hope it's true. But I wonder, I mean, these traditions, once they die, they're very hard to rebuild. And, without going full T.S. Eliot on you, once you don't think you're part of the past, once the idea is that basically, pretty much anything that came before our modern contemporary sense of morality and fairness and right opinion is to be rejected and that, for example, the moral character of the artist should determine whether or not the art should be paid attention to - I don't know how you come back from that or if you come back from that. I'm not convinced you do. No, other arts will be around. And I mean, if I were writing a critical review of my own book, I'd say, look, this culture, this high culture that you, David Rieff, are writing an elegy for, eulogizing or memorializing was going to die anyway, and we're at the beginning of another Gutenbergian epoch, just as Gutenberg, we're sort of 20 years into Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg galaxy, and these other art forms will come, and they won't be like anything else. And that may be true.Andrew Keen: True, it may be true. In a sense then, to extend that critique, are you going full T.S. Eliot in this book?David Rieff: Yeah, I think Eliot was right. But it's not just Eliot, there are people who would be for the wokesters more acceptable like Mandelstam, for example, who said you're part of a conversation that's been going on long before you were born, that's going to be going on after you are, and I think that's what art is. I think the idea that we make some completely new thing is a childish fantasy. I think you belong to a tradition. There are periods - look, this is, I don't find much writing in English in prose fiction very interesting. I have to say I read the books that people talk about because I'm trying to understand what's going on but it doesn't interest me very much, but again, there have been periods of great mediocrity. Think of a period in the late 17th century in England when probably the best poet was this completely, rightly, justifiably forgotten figure, Colley Cibber. You had the great restoration period and then it all collapsed, so maybe it'll be that way. And also, as I say, maybe it's just as with the print revolution, that this new culture of social media will produce completely different forms. I mean, everything is mortal, not just us, but cultures and civilizations and all the rest of it. So I can imagine that, but this is the time I live in and the tradition I come from and I'm sorry it's gone, and I think what's replacing it is for the most part worse.Andrew Keen: You're critical in the book of what you, I'm quoting here, you talk about going from the grand inquisitor to the grand therapist. But you're very critical of the broader American therapeutic culture of acute sensitivity, the thin skin nature of, I guess, the Rousseau in this, whatever, it's lumpen Rousseauanism. So how do you interpret that without psychologizing, or are you psychologizing in the book? How are you making sense of our condition? In other words, can one critique criticize therapeutic culture without becoming oneself therapeutic?David Rieff: You mean the sort of Pogo line, we've met the enemy and it is us. Well, I suppose there's some truth to that. I don't know how much. I think that woke is in some important sense a subset of the wellness movement. And the wellness movement after all has tens and tens of millions of people who are in one sense or another influenced by it. And I think health, including psychic health, and we've moved from wellness as corporal health to wellness as being both soma and psyche. So, I mean, if that's psychologizing, I certainly think it's drawing the parallel or seeing woke in some ways as one of the children of the god of wellness. And that to me, I don't know how therapeutic that is. I think it's just that once you feel, I'm interested in what people feel. I'm not necessarily so interested in, I mean, I've got lots of opinions, but what I think I'm better at than having opinions is trying to understand why people think what they think. And I do think that once health becomes the ultimate good in a secular society and once death becomes the absolutely unacceptable other, and once you have the idea that there's no real distinction of any great validity between psychic and physical wellness, well then of course sensitivity to everything becomes almost an inevitable reaction.Andrew Keen: I was reading the book and I've been thinking about a lot of movements in America which are trying to bring people together, dealing with America, this divided America, as if it's a marriage in crisis. So some of the most effective or interesting, I think, thinkers on this, like Arlie Hochschild in Berkeley, use the language of therapy to bring or to try to bring America back together, even groups like the Braver Angels. Can therapy have any value or that therapeutic culture in a place like America where people are so bitterly divided, so hateful towards one another?David Rieff: Well, it's always been a country where, on the one hand, people have been, as you say, incredibly good at hatred and also a country of people who often construe themselves as misfits and heretics from the Puritans forward. And on the other hand, you have that small-town American idea, which sometimes I think is as important to woke and DI as as anything else which is that famous saying of small town America of all those years ago which was if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. And to some extent that is, I think, a very powerful ancestor of these movements. Whether they're making any headway - of course I hope they are, but Hochschild is a very interesting figure, but I don't, it seems to me it's going all the other way, that people are increasingly only talking to each other.Andrew Keen: What this movement seems to want to do is get beyond - I use this word carefully, I'm not sure if they use it but I'm going to use it - ideology and that we're all prisoners of ideology. Is woke ideology or is it a kind of post-ideology?David Rieff: Well, it's a redemptive idea, a restorative idea. It's an idea that in that sense, there's a notion that it's time for the victims, for the first to be last and the last to be first. I mean, on some level, it is as simple as that. On another level, as I say, I do think it has a lot to do with metaphorization of experience, that people say silence is violence and words are violence and at that point what's violence? I mean there is a kind of level to me where people have gotten trapped in the kind of web of their own metaphors and now are living by them or living shackled to them or whatever image you're hoping for. But I don't know what it means to get beyond ideology. What, all men will be brothers, as in the Beethoven-Schiller symphony? I mean, it doesn't seem like that's the way things are going.Andrew Keen: Is the problem then, and I'm thinking out loud here, is the problem politics or not enough politics?David Rieff: Oh, I think the problem is that now we don't know, we've decided that everything is part, the personal is the political, as the feminists said, 50, 60 years ago. So the personal's political, so the political is the personal. So you have to live the exemplary moral life, or at least the life that doesn't offend anybody or that conforms to whatever the dominant views of what good opinions are, right opinions are. I think what we're in right now is much more the realm of kind of a new set of moral codes, much more than ideology in the kind of discrete sense of politics.Andrew Keen: Now let's come back to this idea of being thin-skinned. Why are people so thin-skinned?David Rieff: Because, I mean, there are lots of things to say about that. One thing, of course, that might be worth saying, is that the young generations, people who are between, let's say, 15 and 30, they're in real material trouble. It's gonna be very hard for them to own a house. It's hard for them to be independent and unless the baby boomers like myself will just transfer every penny to them, which doesn't seem very likely frankly, they're going to live considerably worse than generations before. So if you can't make your way in the world then maybe you make your way yourself or you work on yourself in that sort of therapeutic sense. You worry about your own identity because the only place you have in the world in some way is yourself, is that work, that obsession. I do think some of these material questions are important. There's a guy you may know who's not at all woke, a guy who teaches at the University of Washington called Danny Bessner. And I just did a show with him this morning. He's a smart guy and we have a kind of ironic correspondence over email and DM. And I once said to him, why are you so bitter about everything? And he said, you want to know why? Because I have two children and the likelihood is I'll never get a teaching job that won't require a three hour commute in order for me to live anywhere that I can afford to live. And I thought, and he couldn't be further from woke, he's a kind of Jacobin guy, Jacobin Magazine guy, and if he's left at all, it's kind of old left, but I think a lot of people feel that, that they feel their practical future, it looks pretty grim.Andrew Keen: But David, coming back to the idea of art, they're all suited to the world of art. They don't have to buy a big house and live in the suburbs. They can become poets. They can become filmmakers. They can put their stuff up on YouTube. They can record their music online. There are so many possibilities.David Rieff: It's hard to monetize that. Maybe now you're beginning to sound like the people you don't like. Now you're getting to sound like a capitalist.Andrew Keen: So what? Well, I don't care if I sound like a capitalist. You're not going to starve to death.David Rieff: Well, you might not like, I mean, it's fine to be a barista at 24. It's not so fine at 44. And are these people going to ever get out of this thing? I don't know. I wonder. Look, when I was starting as a writer, as long as you were incredibly diligent, and worked really hard, you could cobble together at least a basic living by accepting every assignment and people paid you bits and bobs of money, but put together, you could make a living. Now, the only way to make money, unless you're lucky enough to be on staff of a few remaining media outlets that remain, is you have to become an impresario, you have become an entrepreneur of your own stuff. And again, sure, do lots of people manage that? Yeah, but not as many as could have worked in that other system, and look at the fate of most newspapers, all folding. Look at the universities. We can talk about woke and how woke destroyed, in my view anyway, a lot of the humanities. But there's also a level in which people didn't want to study these things. So we're looking at the last generation in a lot places of a lot of these humanities departments and not just the ones that are associated with, I don't know, white supremacy or the white male past or whatever, but just the humanities full stop. So I know if that sounds like, maybe it sounds like a capitalist, but maybe it also sounds like you know there was a time when the poets - you know very well, poets never made a living, poets taught in universities. That's the way American poets made their money, including pretty famous poets like Eric Wolcott or Joseph Brodsky or writers, Toni Morrison taught at Princeton all those years, Joyce Carol Oates still alive, she still does. Most of these people couldn't make a living of their work and so the university provided that living.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Barry Weiss earlier. She's making a fortune as an anti-woke journalist. And Free Press seems to be thriving. Yascha Mounk's Persuasion is doing pretty well. Andrew Sullivan, another good example, making a fortune off of Substack. It seems as if the people willing to take risks, Barry Weiss leaving the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan leaving everything he's ever joined - that's...David Rieff: Look, are there going to be people who thrive in this new environment? Sure. And Barry Weiss turns out to be this kind of genius entrepreneur. She deserves full credit for that. Although even Barry Weiss, the paradox for me of Barry Weiss is, a lot of her early activism was saying that she felt unsafe with these anti-Israeli teachers at Columbia. So in a sense, she was using some of the same language as the woke use, psychic safety, because she didn't mean Joseph Massad was gonna come out from the blackboard and shoot her in the eye. She meant that she was offended and used the language of safety to describe that. And so in that sense, again, as I was saying to you earlier, I think there are more similarities here. And Trump, I think this is a genuine counterrevolution that Trump is trying to mount. I'm not very interested in the fascism, non-fascism debate. I'm rather skeptical of it.Andrew Keen: As Danny Bessner is. Yeah, I thought Danny's piece about that was brilliant.David Rieff: We just did a show about it today, that piece about why that's all rubbish. I was tempted, I wrote to a friend that guy you may know David Bell teaches French history -Andrew Keen: He's coming on the show next week. Well, you see, it's just a little community of like-minded people.David Rieff: There you go. Well, I wrote to David.Andrew Keen: And you mentioned his father in the book, Daniel.David Rieff: Yeah, well, his father is sort of one of the tutelary idols of the book. I had his father and I read his father and I learned an enormous amount. I think that book about the cultural contradictions of capitalism is one of the great prescient books about our times. But I wrote to David, I said, I actually sent him the Bessner piece which he was quite ambivalent about. But I said well, I'm not really convinced by the fascism of Trump, maybe just because Hitler read books, unlike Donald Trump. But it's a genuine counterrevolution. And what element will change the landscape in terms of DI and woke and identitarianism is not clear. These people are incredibly ambitious. They really mean to change this country, transform it.Andrew Keen: But from the book, David, Trump's attempts to cleanse, if that's the right word, the university, I would have thought you'd have rather admired that, all these-David Rieff: I agree with some of it.Andrew Keen: All these idiots writing the same article for 30 years about something that no one has any interest in.David Rieff: I look, my problem with Trump is that I do support a lot of that. I think some of the stuff that Christopher Rufo, one of the leading ideologues of this administration has uncovered about university programs and all of this crap, I think it's great that they're not paying for it anymore. The trouble is - you asked me before, is it that important? Is culture important compared to destroying the NATO alliance, blowing up the global trade regime? No. I don't think. So yeah, I like a lot of what they're doing about the university, I don't like, and I am very fiercely opposed to this crackdown on speech. That seems to be grotesque and revolting, but are they canceling supporting transgender theater in Galway? Yeah, I think it's great that they're canceling all that stuff. And so I'm not, that's my problem with Trump, is that some of that stuff I'm quite unashamedly happy about, but it's not nearly worth all the damage he's doing to this country and the world.Andrew Keen: Being very generous with your time, David. Finally, in the book you describe woke as, and I thought this was a very sharp way of describing it, describe it as being apocalyptic but not pessimistic. What did you mean by that? And then what is the opposite of woke? Would it be not apocalyptic, but cheerful?David Rieff: Well, I think genuine pessimists are cheerful, I would put myself among those. The model is Samuel Beckett, who just thinks things are so horrible that why not be cheerful about them, and even express one's pessimism in a relatively cheerful way. You remember the famous story that Thomas McCarthy used to tell about walking in the Luxembourg Gardens with Beckett and McCarthy says to him, great day, it's such a beautiful day, Sam. Beckett says, yeah, beautiful day. McCarthy says, makes you glad to be alive. And Beckett said, oh, I wouldn't go that far. And so, the genuine pessimist is quite cheerful. But coming back to woke, it's apocalyptic in the sense that everything is always at stake. But somehow it's also got this reformist idea that cultural revolution will cleanse away the sins of the supremacist patriarchal past and we'll head for the sunny uplands. I think I'm much too much of a pessimist to think that's possible in any regime, let alone this rather primitive cultural revolution called woke.Andrew Keen: But what would the opposite be?David Rieff: The opposite would be probably some sense that the best we're going to do is make our peace with the trash nature of existence, that life is finite in contrast with the wellness people who probably have a tendency towards the apocalyptic because death is an insult to them. So everything is staving off the bad news and that's where you get this idea that you can, like a lot of revolutions, you can change the nature of people. Look, the communist, Che Guevara talked about the new man. Well, I wonder if he thought it was so new when he was in Bolivia. I think these are - people need utopias, this is one of them, MAGA is another utopia by the way, and people don't seem to be able to do without them and that's - I wish it were otherwise but it isn't.Andrew Keen: I'm guessing the woke people would be offended by the idea of death, are they?David Rieff: Well, I think the woke people, in this synchronicity, people and a lot of people, they're insulted - how can this happen to me, wonderful me? And this is those jokes in the old days when the British could still be savage before they had to have, you know, Henry the Fifth be played by a black actor - why me? Well, why not you? That's just so alien to and it's probably alien to the American idea. You're supposed to - it's supposed to work out and the truth is it doesn't work out. But La Rochefoucauld says somewhere no one can stare for too long at death or the sun and maybe I'm asking too much.Andrew Keen: Maybe only Americans can find death unacceptable to use one of your words.David Rieff: Yes, perhaps.Andrew Keen: Well, David Rieff, congratulations on the new book. Fascinating, troubling, controversial as always. Desire and Fate. I know you're writing a book about Oppenheimer, very different kind of subject. We'll get you back on the show to talk Oppenheimer, where I guess there's not going to be a lot of Lumpen-Rousseauism.David Rieff: Very little, very little love and Rousseau in the quantum mechanics world, but thanks for having me.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

An appeals court rules in favor of Trump firing probationary employees. Plus, Sam Whiting of the Mass Family Institute joins the show to discuss the group's fight against assisted suicide, the LGBTQ observances, and various other woke projects in the state. Visit the Howie Carr Radio Network website to access columns, podcasts, and other exclusive content.

In this explosive Heretics interview, left-wing trade unionist Paul Embery delivers a scathing critique of Britain's political class, Keir Starmer, wokeness, multiculturalism, mass immigration and the modern Left. From Labour's abandonment of the working class to the Lebanon-isation of Britain, Embery unpacks the deep cultural and political crisis facing the UK. "No other country trashes its own history like Britain." "The Labour Party is now run by social activists and student radicals." "We promoted a hard multiculturalism that is now fracturing the country." #PaulEmbery #BritishPolitics #CultureWar  Support my guest by going to http://paulembery.com  Get his book, Despised: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Despised-Modern-Loathes-Working-Class/dp/1509539999  Follow him on X: https://x.com/PaulEmbery    Join the 30k heretics on my mailing list: https://andrewgoldheretics.com  Check out my new documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@andrewgoldinvestigates  Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok   Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Chapters: 0:00 Paul Embery Highlights 0:55 Is the UK Just An Airport? 3:55 Elites & Liberal Progressivism 6:45 JD Vance - Elites vs Ordinary People 7:55 Conspiracy Theories About Kate Middleton 9:40 Epstein's Island & Hunter Biden's Laptop 12:25 What Happened to the Left? 15:25 The Best Example of Leftist Contempt 20:20 Will What Happened to Lebanon Happen to Us? 23:55 Cultural Enrichment 26:55 Tommy Robinson 30:55 Delivery Man Kicking Fella on the Floor 33:55 Japan Example 37:55 National Identity & Making Parliament Artists More Diverse 40:55 Prince Harry the Worst Example 43:55 Harry & Meghan Criticism 47:20 Owen Jones 48:55 Problem with Queers for Palestine 51:55 What We Can Learn From Trump 55:10 A Heretic Paul Admires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Neuverfilmung von Disneys erstem Animationsklassiker „Schneewittchen“ sollte modern und divers werden – stattdessen wurde sie zum finanziellen und künstlerischen Desaster. Der Misserfolg von „Schneewittchen“ zeigt: Das Publikum will keine erzwungene „Woke“-Agenda.

Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Will Hild, executive director of Consumers' Research, who defines woke and how it affects so many areas of our lives, including our pension funds and healthcare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, the Senate held its confirmation hearing for Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Trump's relatively obscure nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Caine's nomination comes amidst questions of his perceived loyalty to Trump and the blowback of last week's Signal leak involving several high-level Trump administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Not to mention, the administration's continued attack on DEI and so-called “wokeness” in the military. On this episode of Trumpland with Alex Wagner, a look at how Trump is trying to remake the American military, and the potential threat it may have to readiness, morale, and recruitment in the armed forces. We hear from the some of the people who've put their lives on the line for their country about their concerns for the future of America's fighting forces.Remember to follow the show so you don't miss a single episode. And sign up for MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen without ads.

Can you be a gay actor, a man of faith, and a bold truth-teller in an industry that often expects you to pick one?   This week, John Corella sits down with actor and LGBTQ+ activist Danny Franzese, best known as Damian in Mean Girls. Danny shares what it was like to play an openly gay character while still closeted in real life, and how that disconnect shaped his early career. The conversation pulls back the curtain on what many actors face behind the scenes, especially when their identity challenges what the industry expects or understands.   Danny also introduces a less-talked-about influence in his journey: the Alexander Technique. For him, it wasn't just a posture tool. It became a way to find alignment, physically and emotionally. How do you carry yourself when no one's watching? Can you feel present in your own skin, even in chaos? Danny makes a case for the connection between movement, intention, and inner peace.   John and Danny also discuss the ongoing debate around representation in the media. Should gay roles be reserved for gay actors? What does authentic storytelling really require, and who gets to tell which stories?   This episode is part personal story, part thoughtful critique, and part reminder that the body, the voice, and the truth all deserve space. Danny brings depth, humor, and honesty to a conversation that speaks to anyone who's ever wondered whether they're “too much” to be fully seen.   Episode Breakdown: 00:00 Introduction  04:44 Alexander Technique 10:53 Stage Performance and Authenticity 14:48 Acting and Being in the Moment 19:29 Past Danny and Future Danny 23:19 Coming Out and Mean Girls Experience 26:40 LGBTQ+ Representation in Media 29:15 Career Challenges Post-Mean Girls 32:14 Becoming an Advocate 34:07 LGBTQ+ Films and Representation 38:55 Wokeness and Diversity 41:14 Realistic Representation in Media   Links Connect with Danny Franzese: www.instagram.com/whatsupdanny www.yassjesuspod.com/   patreon.com/TheonlyDanceDadwithJohnCorella @dancedadpodcast.bsky.social Dance Dad with John Corella on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dancedadwithjohncorella/ John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_corella/ Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

The novelists join the podcast for a sharp, satirical dive into fiction, free speech, and the absurdity of modern culture.

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Neptun im Widder: Die neue RealitätIn dieser besonderen Folge ist Maria Astor - aka Masha Sedwig wieder zu Gast bei Alexander von Schlieffen. Gemeinsam sprechen sie über den bevorstehenden Übergang von Neptun in das Zeichen Widder – ein astrologisches Großereignis mit weitreichender Bedeutung für das persönliche und kollektive Erleben.Masha teilt ihre Perspektive auf die Rolle von Social Media während Neptun in den Fischen und wirft einen spannenden Blick darauf, wie sich Authentizität, Wahrheit und digitale Simulation in den kommenden Jahren verändern könnten. Alexander bringt die größere zyklische Dimension ins Spiel und ordnet die Konstellationen ein – von der Symbolik des Neumondes am 29. März bis hin zur möglichen gesellschaftlichen Erschütterung durch verdrängte Wahrheiten.Ein Gespräch über:Neptun als Symbol für Wahrheit, Verbundenheit und SelbsttäuschungDie astrologische Bedeutung des 28. und 29. März 2025Warum der Neptun im Widder wie eine Geburt wirkt – schmerzhaft, aber kraftvollSocial Media, Wokeness und der kollektive SchattenDie Frage: Wofür kämpfen wir – und warum?Männliche Dominanz, die Angst vor Wandel und die Rolle der EmpathieDie politische Dimension des EpochenwandelsDiese Folge verbindet persönliche Einblicke mit astrologischer Tiefenschärfe – für alle, die sich für die großen Zusammenhänge unserer Zeit interessieren.Mehr über Masha auf Instagram: @mashaFolgt uns für Updates:@astrologie_akademie@schlieffenalexandervon@ricardaberlage#Astropod #Astrologie #Fischezeit #VenusImExil #Empathie #SchleierFallen #Apokalypse #Neumond #AstrologischerPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew Isker is the sixth generation in his family to live in the same Minnesota town. But when the state declared war on Christians, he fled to Tennessee, where he's helping to build a new and real community based on faith and freedom. (00:00) Why Isker Is Building a New Christian Refuge (08:42) The Real Reason Left-Wing Cities Collapse (12:19) The Pagan Religious Movement of Abortion and Transgenderism (23:02) Wokeness Infiltrating the Church (29:25) Atheist Morality (36:00) Tim Walz Is Driving Christians Out of Minnesota Paid partnerships with: Hallow prayer app: Get 3 months free at https://Hallow.com/Tucker Policygenius: Head to at https://Policygenius.com/Tucker to see how much you could save Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marine Le Pen has become the most recent right-wing leader to be disqualified for election by judges in her own country, throwing the entire definition of Western liberal democracy into question. In addition, the post-Trump era should have led to massive political correction for the Left, but while some companies and politicians have adjusted their strategy, many others have doubled down on wokeness. YouTuber the Aristocratic Utensil joins me to discuss whether wokeness has been defeated or has only just begun. Follow on: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-show/id1657770114 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3S6z4LBs8Fi7COupy7YYuM?si=4d9662cb34d148af Substack: https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre Gab: https://gab.com/AuronMacIntyre YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/c/AuronMacIntyre Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-390155 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@AuronMacIntyre:f Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auronmacintyre/ Today's sponsors: Follow https://x.com/WillHild Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 330 of RevolutionZ confronts the growing threat of fascism by examining what constitutes genuine resistance versus complicity or apathy. The episode says we face three choices: bow and scrape to fascism, ignore what's happening, or stand and fight. University presidents and private law firms that collaborate with authoritarian demands represent profiles in cowardice. They bow and scrape. Anyone looking around and saying oh no, but who then does nothing more, ignores reality. But students can stand and fight by speaking up in classrooms, dining halls, and dorms to build campus movements that protest and disobey. Workers facing MAGA-aligned employers can stand and fight through solidarity, refusal to comply, and collective action. "Stand and fight" isn't just a rallying cry—it's our only viable path to stop fascism. Episode 330 examines what meaningful opposition looks like. It  dismantles the temptations to submit or ignore what's happening, and instead provides practical examples of how resistance can take shape on college campuses, in workplaces, and throughout communities.More, it urges that resistance must go beyond simply defending against Trump's agenda. To sustain itself and ultimately succeed, resistance must simultaneously plant seeds for a better future that addresses the fundamental flaws that led to our current crisis. This dual approach of defense plus offense can not only energize supporters but potentially reach Trump voters who begin to recognize their interests align more with progressive than reactionary change.The episode concludes by examining three crucial warnings: don't attack attention to trans, race, and gender issues, don't create divisions between defensive and transformative activists, and most importantly, don't succumb to fear. Don't surrender disobey. Realize that nobody is going to win this by themselves. Realize that through collective action and persistent disobedience, we can not only defeat fascism but build something better in its place. Support the show

What is the underlying logic of woke ideology? Is it consistent, and can it justify the pursuit of equality of outcome, such as redistributing wealth and land?Cofnas discusses the origins and evolution of wokeism, the moral and empirical premises underlying it, and the political dynamics between conservatives and liberals.Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of the ongoing debates around equity, discrimination, and social justice.You can also check out FeedSpot's list of 90 best philosophy podcasts, where Brain in a Vat is ranked at 15, here: https://podcast.feedspot.com/philosophy_podcasts/[00:00] Introduction and Welcome[00:16] Thought Experiment: Redheads and Slavery[08:16] Applying the Analogy to Race[17:00] Moral Responsibility and Social Justice[32:20] Reparations and Environmental Factors[37:17] Statistical Chance and Job Market Inequality[48:43] Conservative Resistance to Wokeism[54:59] The Long March Through Institutions[58:02] Trump's Impact on Wokeism[01:01:45] The Future of Wokeism and Conservative Strategy[01:05:21] Philosophical Foundations of Equality[01:10:47] Conclusion and Final Thoughts

From Gloves to Grills: How George Foreman Built His Empire In 1994, at the age of 45, Foreman became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion after defeating 26-year-old Michael Moorer. He argued that his success was due to healthy eating, which made him a perfect fit for Salton, Inc., who was looking for a spokesperson for its fat-reducing grill. https://www.futureofbusinessandtech.com/small-business/from-gloves-to-grills-how-george-foreman-built-his-empire/ George Foreman's 12 Children: All About His 5 Sons and 7 Daughters George Foreman wasn't just a boxing legend, grill salesman, and preacher—he was a dedicated family man with a unique approach to naming his children. He had 12 kids, 10 of... View Article

Thursday, March 27, 2025 Today's host is Kerby Anderson, broadcasting live from our Dallas studio. Attorney Lathan Watts from Alliance Defending Freedom joins him in the studio for the first hour of today's exciting show! And his co-host for this week is Collin Lambert. Connect with us on Facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio and on Twitter @PointofViewRTS […]

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AI Karen Unleashed movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ubjbJfRKV0&t=1sRobot martial arts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_zbEwz_wAnother robot video, can't find dancing one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkh6RUocD8cMain Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XrpDnpUiC6vpsAsceXmzZ?si=t3wxnz99TeiP9kTifz4TbwTwitter: https://twitter.com/AntiWokePodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@antiwokepodcast8381/featuredTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@anti_woke_podcast

Guest Terry Schilling, President of the American Principles Project, joins to discuss DOGE findings, government "investments" into DEI and wokeness, bring culture back to normalcy, and more. Discussion of woke agenda in public schools, government grants, and resetting the federal government.  President Trump ends the Dept of Education...what is the left doing in return? Discussion of activist Judges, fear tactics of ending social programs, and more.  Is there a global effort to end globalism?

Donald Trump hat Amerika einen gehörigen Rechtsruck verpasst. Welche Teilschuld trägt die Linke an dieser Entwicklung? »Politics is downstream from culture«, also etwa »die Politik folgt der Kultur«, lautet ein Zitat, das Andrew Breitbart zugeschrieben wird, de, Gründer des rechten Krawallportals Breitbart News. Der Bürochef des SPIEGEL in Washington, René Pfister, glaubt, dass dem Sieg Donald Trumps nicht zuletzt ein kultureller Klimawandel in den Vereinigten Staaten vorausging: von langer Hand organisiert in rechten Think-Tanks und befördert von durch eine Stimmung, die linken Eliten in Medien und Kultur verbreiteten. In der aktuellen Folge von »Acht Milliarden« spricht Host Juan Moreno mit Pfister über eine Amerika, das sich in den letzten Jahren mehr und mehr verändert hat: »Die Ära der Wokeness sei ein für alle Mal vorbei, sagte Trump am 4. März bei seiner Rede vor dem US-Kongress, aber rechte, doktrinäre Amerika, das die neue Administration zu erschaffen sucht, scheint mir deutlich gefährlicher«.+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie mit SPIEGEL+. Entdecken Sie die digitale Welt des SPIEGEL, unter spiegel.de/abonnieren finden Sie das passende Angebot. Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Subscribe to https://ground.news/andrew to access diverse perspectives & get 40% off unlimited access this month. In this provocative podcast episode, historian and commentator David Starkey dives deep into the issues shaping modern Britain, from the dangers of wokeness, cultural collapse, and the erosion of traditional family structures to the urgent questions surrounding Christianity, monarchy, and national identity. Starkey shares candid perspectives on the crisis in Ukraine, the controversial politics of Labour, and why defending Western values matters now more than ever. He openly discusses his own experience with cancel culture, the impact of movements like Black Lives Matter, and voices admiration for fellow free thinkers, including figures like Elon Musk. A compelling watch for anyone concerned about freedom of speech, cultural heritage, and the future direction of Britain and the West. David Starkey has been on everything from the BBC to Triggernometry. Follow him on YouTube:  @davidstarkeytalks   Chapters: 0:00 David Starkey Highlights 1:30 We're in the Last Days of Rome   4:30 Wokeness the Death of Us   5:40 Do We Need Christianity?   8:30 Christians Now vs Then   12:30 Why We Need Ceremony   15:55 Mixed Feelings on Christianity   17:30 Family Structures & First Cousin Marriage   20:30 Cultures Are NOT The Same   23:30 Rory Stewart, Alastair Campbell & The UN   27:15 Labour's Magical Thinking & Ukraine   29:30 War Brings You Up Against Reality   32:30 Should We Defend Ukraine?   37:00 The Invention of a Nation   39:30 Putin Disgusting   43:30 Millions in the UK Don't Speak English   44:30 England, Scotland, Charles & Anne   47:00 How England Became Britain   51:30 Monarchy vs Fascism & Communism   54:30 Are We Screwed?   57:00 Konstantin, Fraser & Ethnicity   59:30 Jewish Households Welcoming David & His Partner   1:02:55 David's Cancelation & Covid Madness   1:05:30 BLM Insanity, Slavery Wokeness   1:08:30 What Led to Cancelation Moment   1:11:30 Sick and Tired of This   1:14:30 Contempt For Those Who Turned On David   1:18:30 Elon Musk & Who Organised David's Cancellation   1:23:00 A Heretic David Admires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Karol interviews Aaron Sibarium, a staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon. They discuss Aaron's journey into writing, his experiences at Yale, and his reporting on wokeness and institutional capture. Aaron shares impactful stories from his career, reflects on the current state of free speech on campuses, and offers advice to his younger self. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Wednesday & Friday. Read Aaron's Work HERE Follow Aaron on X HERE #writing #journalism #wokeness #highereducation #freespeech #activism #Yale #politicalidentity #adviceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We kick off with Elon Musk's bombshell revelations on Ted Cruz's podcast, where he exposes NGO scams and shares his bold plan to save the nation a trillion dollars by 2026. Then, we dive into the fun as Kayleigh McEnany announces her pregnancy and Conor McGregor takes a stand at the White House, calling out the Irish government. Plus, don't miss our take on Karoline Leavitt as she squashes autopen rumors and roasts a French politician. And hold onto your hats for the mic drop moment from Tom Homan on the Alien Enemies Act. Amidst the chaos, the DNC faces turmoil, and Simone Sanders hints at a major political shift. We also cover the lighter side with a hilarious look at the latest memes and a satirical jab from the Babylon Bee. It's an episode you won't want to miss, filled with laughter, surprises, and the bold truth only Mock and Daisy can deliver.Department of Retirement Efficiency? YES Join Bulwark Capital “First 100 Days” webinar FREE at https://KnowYourRiskRadio.com – Thursday, March 20th at 3:30 PM Pacific!Stand up for women's sports with XX-XY https://thetruthfits.com code CHICKS20 for 20% off your first purchaseVisit https://readywise.com code CHICKS10 for 10% off your entire purchase. Prepare when times are good, before things turn bad. Ready Wise Emergency FoodBe prepared for when you need medicine the most with All Family Pharmacy. Don't go to urgent care YUCK. Visit https://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Chicks CHICKS10 to get 10% off your entire order

Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness 7 Trump Orders Congress Should Codify To Keep Wokeness Out Of The Military Center for Military Readiness The post Reforming Wokeness in the US Military – Elaine Donnelly, 3/18/25 (0771) first appeared on Issues, Etc..

In this Episode the gang discusses what they or their partner have gifted each other on Birthdays and why Scott is the worst gift giver. Scott shares why he HATES St. Patrick's Day. Miranda's husband (the Serial killer) has a big day coming up (Snip Snip) plus with DEI no longer a thing and the death of WOKENESS what terms will once again be acceptable in the near future? www.nonewfriendspodcast.comwww.sandpipervacations.com

“If AI becomes AGI, how will we ignore its advice when it's smarter than us?” Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert," joins James Poulos to break down the rise of AI and the fall of DEI as wokeness has reached its breaking point. Adams discusses how AI will inevitably replace Hollywood as a tool of government brainwashing and why AI will never replace human creativity. He predicts that we can see a resurgence of art to parallel the rise of complexity in digital technology. After his bold predictions on Trump's political resurgence have come true, Adams also predicts the future of Bitcoin's role in the economy and why the national debt crisis is unsustainable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buck Sexton is joined by OAN Pentagon correspondent Gabrielle Cuccia to discuss major shifts underway at the Department of Defense. They break down the latest Pentagon initiatives under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Undersecretary Sean Parnell, including efforts to eliminate DEI policies, refocus on military readiness, and conduct long-overdue audits. Cuccia provides insight into how these changes are being received inside the Pentagon, the ongoing fallout from the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the military's increasing role in securing the southern border.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This week on Love & Speak the Truth, Dr. Khalilah Gates explores the nuanced concept of "wokeness," unpacking its societal significance and its intersection with race, gender, religion, and ethnicity. Taking a positive and inclusive approach, Dr. Gates tackles the complex issue of gentrification, focusing on its effects through the lens of Chicago's west side. She highlights the transformation of communities and emphasizes the critical role of patience, kindness, and enduring love in fostering harmony. Dr. Gates dispels the misconception that wokeness contradicts these values, instead advocating for mutual respect, understanding, and open communication as vital tools for peaceful coexistence amidst change. You will wake up to the realization that we have been here before. Don't miss out on this authentic conversation of truth, hope, resilience and real-time honest “wokeness.”  

Rich talks with John Tabacco, Newsmax TV personality, and among those in attendance at the first-ever White House Crypto Summit on Friday. Next, a look at the February jobs report, tariffs, and more with former White House OMB associate director for economic policy Vance Ginn. Plus, T.S. Dixon, author of "The Woke Mind Viruses." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, we're breaking down the latest headlines, starting with the possibility of Cuomo running for NYC mayor—could it actually happen? Kristi Noem weighs in on FEMA, while South Carolina is literally on fire. Bondi makes waves on Fox, and Melik Abdul calls out Zelensky on CNN for his lack of diplomacy.Meanwhile, Trump meets with Zelensky, but he and J.D. Vance quickly shut him down. Rubio absolutely wrecks Kaitlan Collins with facts, and an old Biden-Zelensky call resurfaces, raising new questions. As expected, liberals lose their minds, while Chris Christie's Trump Derangement Syndrome is on full display and Susan Rice fawns over Ukraine.We also take a closer look at Ukraine's recruiting tactics, and Putin's latest mineral deal offer—what's the real motive? As Trump prepares to address Congress, Chris Murphy decides to sit it out in protest. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's comments on Social Security spark debate, and we discuss why it's more important than ever to protect him.And of course, we wrap things up with the latest Oscar news!Keep your data safe from data brokers with our sponsor AURA. Visit https://Aura.com/Chicks to start your 14-day free trial today.Shop the first-ever MEGA Sale going on now. Code CHICKS to save at https://MyPillow.com/Chicks plus get free shipping on every order!

This Week's Guests: RedBalloon CEO - Andrew Crapuchettes Comedian - Boris Khaykin Episode 350 RedBalloon CEO Andrew Crapuchettes is a longtime business leader, entrepreneur, and innovator in the technology industry. He has founded several successful tech-focused companies and is widely considered a global pioneer in the development and use of labor market data analytics - an industry he helped found over 20 years ago. Getting his start in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, Andrew earned his reputation as a top-gun for tech-company systems innovation and problem solving. He moved to the inland Northwest in the mid-2000s where he served as the founding CEO of Emsi (now Lightcast) - which brought market-changing innovations to how higher education, corporations, and governments approach the labor market. In 2021, Andrew founded RedBalloon, which has quickly become America's largest connectors of employers and employees who prioritize a positive workplace culture free from the divisiveness of cancel-culture mandates. Crapuchettes' is a frequent presenter at technology and business conferences, and a frequent guest on business and technology news and influencer podcasts. "Rethink Production presents "Live From America Podcast" - a weekly show that combines political commentary with humor. Hosted by the comedy cellar owner Noam Dworman and producer Hatem Gabr, the show features expert guests discussing news, culture, and politics with a blend of knowledge and laughter. Follow Live From America YouTube @livefromamericapodcast twitter.com/AmericasPodcast www.LiveFromAmericaPodcast.com LiveFromAmericapodcast@gmail.com Follow Hatem Twitter.com/HatemNYC Instagram.com/hatemnyc/ Follow Noam Twitter.com/noam_dworman #RedBalloon #AndrewCrapuchettes #Workplacewokeness

New York Times columnist and linguist John McWhorter discusses the rise and fall of "woke," DEI and affirmative action, and his new book on the history of pronouns.

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On last week's episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast, we broke down 10 pop culture phenomena that ruined the world. But things are looking up. Wokeness is on life support, and there's evidence that the chaos of the last decade is giving way to a return to sanity. On this podcast, we look at 10 encouraging pop-culture trends that show America is back!

Camille and Luis enjoy a playful conversation about the trendiness of terms including DEI, decolonization, woke-ness, Queer, witch, and liberal. Trends are cut off from the deep rooted culture of the thing itself, and therefore come and go. Luis reveals how the appropriation of these words into trends feels in his body and why.They discuss intent and impact before conversation flows to decolonizing versus re-indigenizing. A question forms, are we dominating or relating to our body, the land, and others? True healing, whether in the DEI or decolonizing realms, takes time and space to go deeper and root. The speedy passing of trends does not allow for this rooted healing to occur. Discussion includes exploring inclusion as holding space for each person to have their own opinions, knowing we will not all agree. Consensus and rules, or mandates, do not equate to inclusion. They acknowledge the roots of the term Liberal as "Big Tent", as an inclusive place that holds many perspectives.Essentially, is something a dissociative trend, or is it culture, deeply rooted and healing? Join the waitlist for the live 7-week to get early access to registration: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/course To read more about, and register for, the 2025 Menla retreat, click here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/menla-retreat----You can learn more on the website: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/ Learn more about the self-led course here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/self-led-new Join the waitlist to pre-order Luis' book here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/the-book You can follow Luis on Instagram @holistic.life.navigationQuestions? You can email us at info@holisticlifenavigation.com

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After looking at some of the stories making headlines, we will talk with Elaine Donnelly about some new policies being put in place that will end wokeness in the military. We then take up the issue of AI technology and how the Church must be prepared for both new opportunities and some new challenges.Become a Parshall Partner: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/inthemarket/partnersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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WOKENESS has infected every aspect of our culture, including the military. For years now, the US military, across all branches, has embraced woke concepts, with senior-ranking officials defending the most absurd policies. But that looks like it's changing. In this episode, we will show you just how woke the military has become in a short period of time and the changes that are now taking place to unravel it. -----⭐ SPONSOR: DOGE WatchTune into the latest episode of DOGEWatch today!

Fourteen years ago, Amy Chua published Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. It was received less like a book and more like a nuclear bomb. Here are some headlines from the time: “Why I Will Never Be a Tiger Mom.” “Why Amy Chua Is Wrong About Parenting.” “Amy Chua Is a Circus Trainer, Not a Tiger Mother.” “The Human Race Needs Elephant Mothers, Not Tiger Mothers.” “Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales.” Then, just as the publicity around Tiger Mother died down, Amy came out with The Triple Package, about why some ethnic groups succeed. People called her racist. Then she came out in support of Brett Kavanaugh's court nomination in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (before he was accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford). Afterward, people accused her of misogyny and grooming. And she was almost forced out of Yale for it.  Then, in 2021, she was accused of hosting boozy dinner parties during COVID lockdowns and “dinner party-gate” was born. Yale punished her by barring her from teaching her “small group” first-year student contingency.  Fast-forward to 2025. And the tables have turned. Being a strict “tiger mom”? In. Free speech? In. Wokeness and hypersensitivity? Out. Covid lockdowns? Definitely out. Vicious character assassinations at Senate confirmations? Out. As Free Press reporter Peter Savodnik just wrote: “The ideas that Chua was pilloried for are suddenly back in fashion.”  Just a few weeks ago, she attended the inauguration of the incoming president and vice president—one of whom happens to be her former student and mentee.  It's easy to be a weather vane—to go where the wind blows. It's hard to be Amy Chua—to stand up for your beliefs even when they are not popular, even when it means personal consequences. On today's episode, live in D.C. during inauguration weekend, Chua explains how and why she won—and what it feels like to be vindicated.  If you liked what you heard from Honestly, the best way to support us is to go to TheFP.com and become a Free Press subscriber today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 1806, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by stand-up comedian, Marcella Arguello, to discuss… RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing, The Pentagon Has Decided That Black History Month Isn’t A Thing Anymore, Netflix Makes Its Pitch For Not Canceling Netflix and more! The Pentagon Has Decided That Black History Month Isn’t A Thing Anymore Trump Administration's Response to Celebrating Black History Month (Video) Netflix Makes Its Pitch For Not Canceling Netflix Ben Affleck Makes Surprise Appearance to Tease Netflix Thriller RIP Costarring Matt Damon: 'Keeps You Guessing' LISTEN: MiNt cHoCoLaTe (feat. Conway the Machine, Westside Gunn, BADBADNOTGOOD) by 1999 Write The Future L.A. Wildfire Relief: DONATE: Support the Kaller/Gray Family's Recovery Zeitgang Lightsaber Auction and Fundraiser Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On Tuesday, the confirmation process for President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks kicked off with Pete Hegseth, for the position of defense secretary.Eric Schmitt, who covers U.S. national security, explains how the four-hour hearing unfolded, and what the odds are that Mr. Hegseth will soon be leading the Pentagon.Guests: Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The New York Times.Background reading: Read four takeaways from the hearing.Here's how Senate confirmation works.For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.