Podcasts about wokeness

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Wissenschaft ist die Basis dessen, was wir wissen und wie neues Wissen entsteht. Evidenzbasiertes Denken und Handeln ist essentiell, um echte Probleme zu lösen. Doch diese Basis ist abhanden gekommen. Längst ist Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit nicht nur ein Element von Rechtsextremen und anderen Schwurblern. Sie ist längst weit in die demokratische Mitte bei Konservativen und Neoliberalen durchgesickert und vergiftet damit jeden Diskurs. Wissenschaft wird zur Meinung und zum Kulturkampf stilisiert. Es ist daher nicht mehr ausreichend, gute Politik zu machen, die echte Probleme löst, denn das wird und wurde leider nicht belohnt. Darüber hinaus müssen wir die Verbreitung von Lügen und Hass bekämpfen und da spielen die so genannten sozialen Medien eine entscheidende Rolle.

Today's culture isn't just confused; it's in full-blown rebellion against reality itself. From men getting pregnant to math being called racist to children choosing their gender at age five, we are watching society build a new Tower of Babel before our eyes — a society desperately trying to redefine truth, morality, and even biology apart from God. In this episode of The Creation Today Show, Eric Hovind is joined by Babylon Bee's Joel Berry to expose the absurdities of Woke Culture and reveal how this modern-day "Babel" is collapsing under the weight of its own madness. How did we get here? Where is it all headed? And more importantly, what should Christians do about it? Get ready for a hilarious, eye-opening, and seriously important conversation for standing strong in today's upside-down world.   Watch this Podcast on Video at: https://creationtoday.org/on-demand-classes/wokeness-the-new-tower-of-babel-creation-today-show-424/   Join Eric LIVE each Wednesday at 12 Noon CT for conversations with Experts. You can support this podcast by becoming a Creation Today Partner at CreationToday.org/Partner 

Thom Francis reintroduces us to longtime local poet and open mic host Don Levy. Don was the featured reader at the Albany Poets Presents series at Restaurant Navona in 2017, where he shared his poems, told stories about his childhood, and answered questions from the audience. For this segment, Thom asks Don about one of the poems he read that night and some other issues of the day. — Don Levy has been part of the Albany poetry scene since 1988 when he first read at the QE2 open mic. He has read at various venues and events in the area, including The Albany Public Library, Poets in the Park, the Poets Speak Loud series at McGeary's, and The Social Justice Center. He has hosted a number of readings over the years, the first being at The Albany Art Gallery on Jefferson Street, to his last, a featured reader / open mic series called "Live From the Living Room," a straight-friendly reading held at The Pride Center of the Capital Region. Don was one of the editors of Open Mic: The Albany Anthology., a fantastic book that featured work from the poets who frequented the local open mics in the mid-90s. He published 2 chapbooks with local artist Kevin Bruce: How Green Was My Big Eden, a collection of gay fantasy poems, and Super Queer Poet Saves the Day. On January 18, 2017, Don read his poem "Mike Pence Goes to Hamilton" at the Albany Poets Presents event at Restaurant Navona in Albany. In our conversation we talk about where the idea for that poem came from, recent online outrage over major companies supporting LGBTQ+ causes, "wokeness," and using poetry as social commentary.

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Die US-amerikanische Philosophin Susan Neiman über Weltpolitik und Philosophie, von Voltaire bis Donald Trump, und warum sich die Linke statt auf Wokeness auf ihre traditionellen Werte besinnen muss. Die amerikanische Philosophin Susan Neiman springt für die Aufklärung in die Bresche. Die europäische Ideenwelt des 18. Und dann 19.Jahrhunderts von Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel bis Marx muss das Fundament des Engagements der Linken bleiben, argumentiert sie. Susan Neiman ist von Donald Trump empört, bei dem sie Faschismus ortet. Und sie wendet sich bei der Verteidigung der Aufklärung gegen das postkoloniale Denken und ganz allgemein Wokeness in der akademischen Welt. “Links ist nicht Woke” ist der Titel ihrer jüngsten Streitschrift.Was Susan Neiman darunter versteht und wo Wokeness reaktionär wird, bespricht sie in einer Wiener Vorlesung. Im Gespräch mit dem Journalisten Günter Kaindlstorfer bietet sie einen Parforceritt durch Weltpolitik und Philosophie. Es geht um den französischen Philosophen Foucault und Donald Trump, um die Instrumentalisierung von Antisemitismus und die umstrittene Autorin Judith Butler. Hören Sie das Lob der Aufklärung und warum sich die Linke ihrer traditionellen Werte besinnen muss von der Philosophin Susan Neiman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The authoritarian right loves to talk about how they're upholding democracy. Trump didn't lose the 2020 election, because if he had, democracy would've been against him. So instead it was stolen from him, his loss a subversion of the democratic process. Now, as a deeply unpopular second-term president, he and his loyalists pretend they are executing the will of the people, instead of horrifying most Americans while circumventing the people's elected legislature.My guest today has written a terrific book, The Reactionary Spirit, about this odd contradiction in contemporary autocratic rhetoric: On the one hand, far-right anti-democratic regimes speak in the language of democracy and popular will. On the other, they are, well, anti-democratic regimes. Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers challenges to democracy in the United States and abroad, right-wing populism, and the world of ideas.If you enjoy ReImagining Liberty and want to listen to episodes free of ads and sponsorships, become a supporter. Learn more here: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/upgrade I also encourage you to check out my companion newsletter, where I write about the kinds of ideas we discuss on this show. You can find it on my website at ⁠⁠www.aaronrosspowell.com⁠⁠. Produced by ⁠Landry Ayres⁠. Podcast art by ⁠Sergio R. M. Duarte⁠. Music by ⁠Kevin MacLeod⁠.

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 164 What is the Woke worldview? It's called "critical constructivism." How is it adopted? The formal name for picking up "Wokeness" is adopting "critical hermeneutics." What in the world does that mean? It means viewing the world through lenses of power as described by critical theory and social constructivism. That is, it means reading Marxian analysis into all perceptions of the world and believing this makes you more "enlightened." In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through another segment of what he calls "The Book of Woke," i.e., Critical Constructivism: A Primer (https://amzn.to/3EuM2mZ ), by Joe L. Kincheloe, a (late) critical education theorist. Join him to have all these questions answered and to clarify your thinking about what "Woke" means even more. This episode is Part 2 in a developing series exploring "The Book of Woke." Find Part 1 here: https://newdiscourses.com/2025/04/the-book-of-woke-introducing-critical-constructivism/ New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #hermeneutics

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, cities across the country are adopting the LGBT pride flag as their official flags. Wokeness is not as dead as we might like to believe. Also, the attorney general says that the FBI is still going through Epstein material. What is taking so long? And the media mourns as an entire family of illegal immigrants face deportation. They committed no crime, except the crime of coming here illegally, which is more than enough reason to deport them. And Times Square has a new statue. It's a 12-foot-tall overweight black woman. Why does this statue exist? We'll try to figure that out today. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1592 - - - DailyWire+: Join us at https://dailywire.com/subscribe and become a part of the rebellion against the ridiculous. Normal is back. And this time, we're keeping it. The hit podcast, Morning Wire, is now on Video! Watch Now and subscribe to their YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/42SxDJC Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/walsh to get an exclusive discount. Lumen - Take the next step to improving your health: go to https://lumen.me/WALSH to get 15% off your Lumen. PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/WALSH - - - Socials:  Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy

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Exploring Priestcraft and Wokeness in LDS CultureJoin us as we delve into the controversial topic of priestcraft within the LDS community and discuss whether LDS Living has gone 'woke.' We explore the impact on advertising, cultural norms, and the challenges faced by those trying to share their message. Featuring insights from Rod Meldrum and other key figures.LDS, priestcraft, woke culture, advertising, Rod Meldrum, LDS Living, Heartland theory, Mormonism,If you enjoyed this video, please like, subscribe, and visit our website for more content.Special thanks to Rod Meldrum and all contributors.⏱️⏱️VIDEO CHAPTERS⏱️⏱️:00:00:00 - Understanding LDS Living and Woke Culture00:02:28 - Advertising Challenges with LDS Living Magazine00:05:01 - Speaker Vetting at LDS Expos and Events00:07:22 - Impact of Advertising Decisions on Businesses00:09:47 - Security Concerns at Salt Lake Events00:12:27 - Cultural Norms and Business Models in Utah00:14:53 - Wokeness and Cultural Shifts in the US00:17:22 - Priestcraft and Clergy Compensation in Mormonism00:19:46 - Criticism and Sustaining Church Leadership00:22:21 - Administrative Roles vs. Prophetic Leadership00:24:50 - Exploring Priestcraft in Modern Contexts00:27:16 - Influence of BYU and Church AdministrationTo Order Jonah's Book, "The Key to the Keystone" visit the following link and use coupon Code: WARDRADIO https://tinyurl.com/Key-to-the-KeystoneFor 10% off Plain and Precious Publishing Books, visit plainandpreciouspublishing.com and use Coupon Code: WARDRADIOFor a copy of Brad's "Dragon Theif" Book, visit: https://a.co/d/7QzqsZN⚡For free trial of Scripture Notes please visit the following link!: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradioJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinVisit us for this and more at: WardRadio.com#christian #mormon #exmormon #latter-daysaints #latterdaysaints #latterdays #bible #bookofmormon #archaeology #BYU #midnightmormons #jesus #jesuschrist #scriptures #sundayschool #biblestudy #christiancomedy #cardonellis #kwakuel #bradwitbeckTo support the channel:Venmo @WardRadio or visit: https://account.venmo.com/u/MidnightMormonsPaypal: paypal.me/@midnightmedia Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareCashApp: $WardRadioFollow us at:Instagram: @cardonellis @kwakuel @braderico @boho.birdyFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwide

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Politik und Unternehmertum – ein Spannungsfeld, das oft unterschätzt wird. In dieser besonderen Podcast-Folge diskutiere ich, Joel Kaczmarek, mit zwei faszinierenden Gästen: Vivien Wysocki, Gründerin von Saint Sass, und Christoph Werner, Geschäftsführer von dm Drogeriemarkt. Vivien bringt frischen Wind in die Diskussion mit ihrer Erfahrung im politischen Engagement und ihrer Arbeit mit der EU. Christoph hingegen beleuchtet die Balance zwischen unternehmerischer Verantwortung und politischer Neutralität. Gemeinsam erkunden wir, wann und wie Unternehmen politisch aktiv sein sollten und welche Auswirkungen dies auf die öffentliche Wahrnehmung und interne Kultur hat. Ein inspirierender Austausch über Verantwortung, Meinungspluralismus und die Kunst der Kommunikation. Du erfährst... ...wie Unternehmen politisch aktiv werden und dabei authentisch bleiben. ...welche Rolle Verantwortung in der politischen Teilhabe spielt. ...wie Vivien Wysocki und Christoph Werner ihre politischen Ansichten einbringen. ...welche Herausforderungen und Chancen die politische Kommunikation bietet. ...warum Meinungspluralismus und respektvoller Dialog essenziell sind. __________________________ ||||| PERSONEN |||||

Ryan Rogers joins Something For Everybody this week. Ryan is a clinical mental health counseling intern. He is also author of The Woke Mind and host of the Reality Therapy podcast. In this conversation, Ryan and I explore the rise of activism in academia, the impact of social movements, and the implications of social justice ideology on mental health. We discuss the concept of privilege walks, the demonization of hard work, and the search for meaning and belonging among individuals, particularly young boys. The conversation also delves into the complexities of masculinity, the state of wokeness in society, and the controversial topic of gender affirming care.  - Timestamps:  00:00 Overcoming Darkness 06:03 Understanding Mental Health 12:03 Navigating Modern Challenges 18:00 Wokeness in Therapy: A Critical Examination 30:28 The Rise of Activism in Academia 32:14 The Impact of Social Movements 34:21 Understanding Privilege Walks 36:25 The Demonization of Hard Work 38:08 The Search for Meaning and Belonging 40:16 Addressing the Crisis in Young Boys 44:34 The State of Wokeness in Society 47:27 The Controversy of Gender Affirming Care 50:54 The Role of Rational Compassion in Therapy 54:09 The Mental Health Implications of Social Justice Ideology 56:08 Microaggressions and Their Misinterpretations - See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://everybodyspod.com/deals/ - Shop For Everybody  Use code SFE10 for 10% OFF

Exploring Priestcraft and Wokeness in LDS CultureJoin us as we delve into the controversial topic of priestcraft within the LDS community and discuss whether LDS Living has gone 'woke.' We explore the impact on advertising, cultural norms, and the challenges faced by those trying to share their message. Featuring insights from Rod Meldrum and other key figures.LDS, priestcraft, woke culture, advertising, Rod Meldrum, LDS Living, Heartland theory, Mormonism,If you enjoyed this video, please like, subscribe, and visit our website for more content.Special thanks to Rod Meldrum and all contributors.⏱️⏱️VIDEO CHAPTERS⏱️⏱️:00:00:00 - Understanding LDS Living and Woke Culture00:02:28 - Advertising Challenges with LDS Living Magazine00:05:01 - Speaker Vetting at LDS Expos and Events00:07:22 - Impact of Advertising Decisions on Businesses00:09:47 - Security Concerns at Salt Lake Events00:12:27 - Cultural Norms and Business Models in Utah00:14:53 - Wokeness and Cultural Shifts in the US00:17:22 - Priestcraft and Clergy Compensation in Mormonism00:19:46 - Criticism and Sustaining Church Leadership00:22:21 - Administrative Roles vs. Prophetic Leadership00:24:50 - Exploring Priestcraft in Modern Contexts00:27:16 - Influence of BYU and Church AdministrationTo Order Jonah's Book, "The Key to the Keystone" visit the following link and use coupon Code: WARDRADIO https://tinyurl.com/Key-to-the-KeystoneFor 10% off Plain and Precious Publishing Books, visit plainandpreciouspublishing.com and use Coupon Code: WARDRADIOFor a copy of Brad's "Dragon Theif" Book, visit: https://a.co/d/7QzqsZN⚡For free trial of Scripture Notes please visit the following link!: https://scripturenotes.com/?via=wardradioJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmsAFGrFuGe0obW6tkEY6w/joinVisit us for this and more at: WardRadio.com#christian #mormon #exmormon #latter-daysaints #latterdaysaints #latterdays #bible #bookofmormon #archaeology #BYU #midnightmormons #jesus #jesuschrist #scriptures #sundayschool #biblestudy #christiancomedy #cardonellis #kwakuel #bradwitbeckTo support the channel:Venmo @WardRadio or visit: https://account.venmo.com/u/MidnightMormonsPaypal: paypal.me/@midnightmedia Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1AQLMTSMBM4DC?ref_=wl_shareCashApp: $WardRadioFollow us at:Instagram: @cardonellis @kwakuel @braderico @boho.birdyFacebook: @WardRadioWorldwideTwitter: WardRadioShowTikTok: WardRadioWorldwide

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Back after a year on hiatus! Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast They, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally an hour...Sokrates: The people find some protector, whom they nurse into greatness… but then changes, as indicated in the old fable of the Temple of Zeus of the Wolf, of how he who tastes human flesh mixed up with the flesh of other sacrificial victims will turn into a wolf. Even so, the protector, once metaphorically tasting human blood, slaying some and exiling others, within or without the law, hinting at the cancellation of debts and the fair redistribution of lands, must then either perish or become a werewolf—that is, a tyrant…Key Insights:* We are back! After a year-long hiatus.* Hexapodia is a metaphor: a small, strange insight (like alien shrubs riding on six-wheeled carts as involuntary agents of the Great Evil) can provide key insight into useful and valuable Truth.* The Democratic Party is run by 27-year-old staffers, not geriatric figurehead politicians–this shapes messaging and internal dynamics.* The American progressive movement did not possess enough assibayah to keep from fracturing over Gaza War, especially among younger Democratic staffers influenced by social media discourse.* The left's adoption of “indigeneity” rhetoric undermined its ability to be a coalition in the face of tensions generated by the Hamas-Israel terrorism campaigns.* Trump's election with more popular votes than Harris destroyed Democratic belief that they had a right to oppose root-and-branch.* The belief that Democrats are the “natural majority” of the U.S. electorate is now false: nonvoters lean Trump, not so much Republican, and definitely not Democratic.* Trump's populism is not economic redistribution, but a claim to provide a redistribution of status and respect to those who feel culturally disrespected.* The Supreme Court's response to Trumpian overreach is likely to be very cautious—Barrett and Roberts are desperately eager to avoid any confrontation with Trump they might wind up losing, and Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Thomas will go the extra mile—they are Republicans who are judges, not judges who are Republicans, except in some extremis that may not even exist.* Trump's administration pursues selective repression through the state, rather than stochastic terrorism.* The economic consequence of the second Trump presidency look akin to another Brexit costing the U.S. ~10% of its prosperity, or more.* Social media, especially Twitter a status warfare machine–amplifying trolls and extremists, suppressing nuance.* People addicted to toxic media diets but lack the tools or education to curate better information environments.* SubStack and newsletters may become part of a healthier information ecosystem, a partial antidote to the toxic amplification of the Shouting Class on social media.* Human history is marked by information revolutions (e.g., printing press), each producing destructive upheaval before stabilization: destruction, that may or may not be creative.* As in the 1930s, we are entering a period where institutions–not mobs–become the threat, even as social unrest diminishes.* The dangers are real,and recognizing and adapting to new communication realities is key to preserving democracy.* Plato's Republic warned of democracy decaying into tyranny, especially when mob-like populism finds a strongman champion who then, having (metaphorically) fed on human flesh, becomes a (metaphorical) werewolf.* Enlightenment values relied more than we knew on print-based gatekeeping and slow communication; digital communication bypasses these safeguards.* The cycle of crisis and recovery is consistent through history: societies fall into holes they later dig out of, usually at great cost—or they don't.* &, as always, HEXAPODIA!References:* Brown, Chad P. 2025. “Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide”. PIIE. .* Center for Humane Technology. 2020. “The Social Dilemma”. .* Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, & John Jay. 1788. The Federalist Papers. .* Nowinski, Wally. 2024. “Democrats benefit from low turnout now”. Noahpinion. July 20. .* Platon of the Athenai. -375 [1871]. Politeia. .* Rorty, Richard. 1998. Achieving Our Country. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. * Rothpletz, Peter. 2024. “Economics 101 tells us there's no going back from Trumpism”. The Hill. September 24. .* Smith, Noah. 2021. “Wokeness as Respect Redistribution”. Noahpinion..* Smith, Noah. 2016. “How to actually redistribute respect”. Noahpinion. March 23. .* Smith, Noah. 2013. “Redistribute wealth? No, redistribute respect”. Noahpinion. December 27. .* SubStack. 2025. “Building a New Economic Engine for Culture”. .&* Vinge, Vernor. 1999. A Deepness in the Sky. New York: Tor Books. .If reading this gets you Value Above Replacement, then become a free subscriber to this newsletter. And forward it! 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In this episode, Charlie Kirk is joined by Megyn Kelly to discuss Bill Maher's gradual shift toward conservative views, noting his growing criticism of liberal ideologies like wokeness and his appreciation for some of Trump's policies. They also address the backlash against Maher from figures like Larry David, the political missteps of Democrats defending an MS-13 gang member, and the ongoing fight against transgender participation in women's sports, where Kelly emphasizes significant progress in public opinion and legal rulings.

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It's Good Friday here on the Sean Spicer Show, and we wish you a very blessed Easter weekend as you gather with friends, family and loved ones. Holy Week at the White house was a return to faith in our nation's highest office. From Franklin Graham and Bishop Harry Jackson to White House staffers singing worship songs, a spiritual cleansing has taken place in our nation's capital. I went to tot White House to celebrate the Navy Midshipman's reception of the Commander-In-Chief trophy. To my delight, President Trump gave me a tour of the newly decorated oval office. There is no better time to discuss Andrew Klavan's new book The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness than Good Friday. For it was the first Good Friday where the apostles and early Christians faced ultimate darkness in Christ's crucifixion, only to be Risen three days later. Andrew and I discuss the immediate cultural shift as President Trump took office, big business and big law immediately abandoned the woke policies that Biden has pushed so hard throughout the country. As Hollywood goes broke and the news media is essentially a joke; Harvard is setting itself up for a losing battle with the Trump administration, so they can hold tight to woke lunacy. Andrew Klavan foresees a cultural shift with independent filmmakers, creators and media personalities. The Conservative's point of view is rooted in a spiritual truth that can be seen throughout the ages of shifting cultures and ideas. Klavan argues that it is possible to be clear-eyed about the evil in the world while remaining hope-filled about God's ability to redeem it all. Featuring: Andrew Klavan The Andrew Klavan Show | The Daily Wire American Novelist, Conservative Political Commentator https://www.dailywire.com/ Get your copy of Andrews new book The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness at the link here: https://a.co/d/g7JTTyX It is Friday which means FREE new content in my newsletter: https://www.seanspicer.com/p/snl-hits-a-new-low Today's show is sponsored by: Wired 2 Fish Coffee Do you want to drink coffee from the finest coffee beans in the world? Wired 2 Fish sources directly from Mexico and Guatemala to bring you the freshest arabica coffee beans in the world. Wired 2 Fish cares so much about the earth that they give back 25% of their net profits to faith-based organizations and clean water initiatives. If you're a coffee lover and want to support a great company doing great work head to https://www.wired2fishcoffee.com/ use code: WECARE for 15% off your first order.  TAX Network USA Even though tax day has passed, if you owe taxes to the IRS make sure you talk with a strategist at Tax Network USA... it's FREE. Stop the threatening letters. Stop looking over your shoulder and put your IRS troubles behind you, once and for all. Whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million, Tax Network USA can help you! Reach out to them today at 1-800-245-6000 or visit https://tnusa.com/SEANSPICER ------------------------------------------------------------- 1️⃣ Subscribe and ring the bell for new videos: https://youtube.com/seanmspicer?sub_confirmation=1 2️⃣ Become a part of The Sean Spicer Show community: https://www.seanspicer.com/ 3️⃣ Listen to the full audio show on all platforms: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sean-spicer-show/id1701280578 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/32od2cKHBAjhMBd9XntcUd iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-sean-spicer-show-120471641/ 4️⃣ Stay in touch with Sean on social media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/seanmspicer Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanspicer Instagram: https://instagram.com/seanmspicer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Marvel Comics getting a clue? Probably not, but they're going back to the middle aged male well with their first swimsuit issue since the mid 1990s. Now, fix Spider-Man and the X-Men and we'll talk.

These Stories are everywhere—in churches, in pulpits, in seminaries, and in youth groups.And if we don't speak clearly, boldly, and lovingly about what's happening… we'll lose more than just doctrine—we'll lose souls.So stay with us. Because today, we're talking about why wokeness matters—and why the church must wake up.Mohler Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-briefing-with-albert-mohler/id390278738?i=1000695491039To Purchase our cigar line go to https://1689cigars.com/collections/4-freedom-cigars For more info visit our website. https://4freedompodcast.comFor Merch visit this site. https://www.teepublic.com/user/freedom-ministries?utm_source=designer&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Gq_E0abDp_8

In this “Kim on a Whim,” Kim St. Onge dives into the viral SNL skit that pokes fun at gay parenting tropes and questions whether it's a true sign of a cultural shift—or just a ratings ploy. Kim and the team debate if this means mainstream media is backing off progressive sacred cows or if it's just a temporary detour. They also expose how big corporations like Disney, Google, and Kohl's are quietly rebranding DEI efforts under terms like “Belonging” to dodge backlash while continuing the same agenda. Plus, Kim breaks down the social double standards conservatives face in everyday life, from sticker-shaming Elon Musk to being berated on planes for watching Fox News. As usual, the woke mob is all bark—unless you push back.

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Text your questions or comments to us.THE GREAT BRO-WAKENING is here. Men from all over the world are waking up from and rejecting woke ideologues and progressive destruction and embracing real traditional masculinity.We've been labeled toxic, told we're obsolete. But right now, men everywhere are waking up.Have you ever been told to check your masculinity at the door?Men are being ignored, told we are not needed, that we are toxic and useless and the source of all the world's problems.Must be nice to have someone to blame for all your faultsWE ARE FREAKING DONE WITH THIS DUMPSTER FIRE!HOW TO: Stop trying and start trainingPrinciple 1: Servant‑LeadershipStep: Identify one person you can serve this week—child, spouse, co‑worker.Scripture: Matt. 20:26–27.Principle 2: Protector & ProviderStep: Conduct a “household audit” of physical, emotional, and spiritual needs; implement one improvement.Scripture: 1 Tim. 5:8.Principle 3: Self‑Control & DisciplineStep: Launch a 30‑day challenge (fasting, workout, digital detox) with an accountability partner.Scripture: 1 Cor. 9:25.Principle 4: Prayer & Spiritual DependenceStep: Implement “prayer pockets” at morning, midday, evening; keep a prayer journal.Scripture: 1 Thess. 5:17.Support the show TDMP SITE: https://dangerousmanpodcast.com/ Grab some DANGEROUS GEAR in our shop https://dangerousmanpodcast.com/shop/ Support the show for as little as $3 a month https://www.buzzsprout.com/2080275/supporters/new Follow us on X for more shenanigans https://twitter.com/TDMPodcast603 Follow us on Instagram for extra shenanigans https://www.instagram.com/thedangerousmanpodcast/ Connect with Matt Fortin & Rory Lawrence Email us at: thedangerousmanpodcast@gmail.com Remember men... Stop trying & start training! Top Men's Podcast for 2024... https://podcasts.feedspot.com/mens_podcasts/

Millionenfach sitzen Schokohasen jetzt in den Geschäften. Doch halt: Dürfen sie überhaupt noch "Osterhasen" heißen? Schon wieder sind alternative Fakten in Social Media und der echten Welt unterwegs, die WDR 2 Kabarettist Tobias Mann pünktlich vor dem Fest aufdeckt und einordnet. Von Tobias Mann.

Die USA verbieten Diversity-Programme, in Ungarn werden Pride-Paraden verboten und mit einer Politik gegen Migration und Vielfalt erreicht die AfD Umfragehöchstwerte. Wie gehen wir damit um? Diskussion mit Cawa Younosi, Geschäftsführer Charta der Vielfalt, und Moderator Ralph Erdenberger. Von WDR 5.

Trump meets with the president of El Salvador, Biden is BACK and in the public eye since leaving office, and wokeness can be anywhere, even in space

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.

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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.

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

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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

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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

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..

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.

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!

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.