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I've come down with the Bubonic Plague this week, and I'm unable to speak. I'll be posting four of my greatest hits in between fits of fever and chills, starting with this classic interview with Angela Nagle.

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In this week's episode, I talk with Angela Nagle about the alt-right and how to exit the dead end of culture warrior politics. Angela's book, Kill All Normies: The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-right and Trump, will be out from Zero Books in May.

We talk about the alt-right, alt-light, and the white nationalist elements of the movement. We discuss their tactics of baiting the left into street fights, and we finish with the desperate need for the left to develop better arguments for our complex times.

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See Angela's recent writings:

-"The New Man of 4-Chan," thebaffler.com/salvos/new-man-4chan-nagle

-"Paleocons for Porn," www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/paleocons-for-porn

Joining me this week is Phoebe Maltz Bovy to talk about her book, The Perils of Privilege: Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage. We talk about privilege theory and call out culture, the invisible knapsack, taylor swift, and the toxic soup that is social media and privilege checking. Also, we solve the privilege problem for all time -- no big deal. Better tune in, folks.

Phoebe's book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Perils-Privilege-Injustice-Accusing-Advantage/dp/1250091209

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Pokemon, Candy Crush, PlayStation -- Oh my! With 50% of the world's population now involved in some form of gaming, we can no longer relegate this form of entertainment to the nerdy, subcultural backwaters.

Joining me for my first installment of Hot Takes & Field Notes is Alfie Bown, Co-Editor of Hong Kong Review of Books, and the author of ENJOYING IT: CANDY CRUSH AND CAPITALISM (2015) and the forthcoming THE PLAYSTATION DREAMWORLD (2017). We talk about the politics of enjoyments, whether or not I should feel guilty about playing Pokemon, and so much more.

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Joining me this week to continue our "Anti-Essentialism Series, Summer 2017" is Walter Benn Michaels. We talk about the transformation of race science to cultural essentialism, and why we love diversity and hate inequality. Walter is a distinguished literary and social critic, and one of the leading theorists of anti-essentialism, so you won't want to miss this interview.

Walter's most relevant book, The Trouble with Diversity, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Diversity-Learned-Identity-Inequality/dp/0805083316

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Joining me to talk about the debates surrounding Universal Basic Income (UBI) is David Bush, a labor organizer, and writer from Toronto, Canada. He talks about the pilot project for Basic Income being tried out by the Ontario government, as well as other real world cases of UBI that have fallen far short of achieving social gains for poor and working class people.

Does the future consist of cool robots and UBI for all? Probably not. Tune in to hear all about the political impasses of UBI for the left.

We discuss types of Basic Income, real world pilot projects and policy proposals, automation, the future of work and union strategy, the nature of the capitalist state, and much more.

We mention several articles in the show. Most of them can be found in David's excellent collection of articles related to UBI: "Basic Income: A Critical Reader": https://hammerhearts.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/basic-income-a-critical-reader/

Much of what we discuss, along with cited sources, can be found in David's article, "Basic Income and the Left:

The Political and Economic Problems" published here: https://socialistproject.ca/bullet/1402.php

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Joining me this week to talk about the road to socialism in the 21st Century is founding editor and publisher of Jacobin Magazine, Bhaskar Sunkara. We talk about Jacobin's new Catalyst Journal and the role that it plays in the enterprise; we move to the debates around neoliberalism; then, we discuss the legacy of left social democracy and why social democracy failed in the 20th Century, as well as how to move forward in the 21st.

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Joining me to discuss race, class and the Democratic Socialists of America is Adolph Reed, Jr. He's a prolific commentator on black politics and has been on the socialist left for 50 years, so he's just the man to talk to about the upcoming DSA convention. In particular, we'll be addressing the proposal to establish an autonomous "Afro-socialist and Socialists of Color Caucus." The full resolution can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5P0FbY9YTM-UlVwTzRSTGhQRG8/view

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Joining me this week to expand on my recent episodes on race and class is author and political commentator, Pascal Robert. We talk about a whole range of issues: the Haitian Revolution, black nationalism, racial uplift politics, whiteness studies, race management, racial disparity statistics, and, finally, Pascal rips into Ta-Nahesi Coates. Robert is *fire* on the mic, so you’re not going to want to miss this episode!

Check out Pascal’s work for the Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/blog/1898

His article, “Pascal Robert: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Essentialism, and the Threat of the Black Cultural Tour Guide” can be found here: https://washingtonspectator.org/pascal-robert-ta-nehisi-coates-and-the-threat-of-the-black-tour-guide/


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Joining me this week to talk about woke, neoliberal feminism and gender essentialism is Katie Halper (@KTHalps), host of the Katie Halper Show. We go *in* on many un-dead pundits, from Sally Albright, Sady Doyle, Imani Gandy, Neera Tanden, and many more. Katie levels an interesting defense of caring about what happens on Twitter. Don't miss it.

Her article, "A Millennial Feminist Explains the New Feminism to a Boomer Feminist Philosopher," can be found here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/a-feminist-millennial-explains-feminism-to-a-femin.html

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At long last, I am posting a 2-hour interview with the GODFATHER, Adolph Reed. The original audio was corrupted and it took a lot of work to string together. But I've managed to get it into a form that you should be able to follow. We talk about a whole host of issues, but it's really a MASTER CLASS in Adolph's thought, and I'm really glad that I can offer it as a token of my appreciation.

Topics include:

-Organizing in the 1960's

-Black Power

-Adolph's critique of brokerage politics and representationalism

-Adolph's hot take on Black Lives Matter

-His beef with Paul Heideman and Jonah Birch (Their article can be found here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/adolph-reed-blm-racism-capitalism-labor -- Adolph's brilliant response is here: http://nonsite.org/editorial/splendors-and-miseries-of-the-antiracist-left-2)

-And, lastly, Adolph's favorite dirty joke that he weaves perfectly into a great political argument.

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