Mike talks with Eric Heinze, professor at Queen Mary University of London and author of Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left. 

Topics Mike and Eric discuss include:

why critical theory resists a single definition

the Radical Critique of Western Liberal Democracythe left’s greatest legacy: redefining history as collective self-scrutiny

the left’s big blind spot

prospects for change

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