Praxeum

Praxeum

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Praxeum episodes

  • Dog Whistles: Strategies of Socially Acceptable Racism in the Modern GOP

    In this episode, I explore Dog Whistles as a concept, and as a political tactic used by the GOP since the Nixon campaign to court racist voters. There are things we can do to combat these racist tactics, which I discuss at the end of the episode.


    Vox on Dog Whistles: 

    https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/7/13549154/dog-whistles-campaign-racism


    Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy:

    https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

    Reagan's Dog Whistles:

    http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/reagans-dog-whistles-worked-trump-missed-that-lesson/

    Trump's (many, very loud) Dog Whistles:
    http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/reagans-dog-whistles-worked-trump-missed-that-lesson/
    https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/trump-rnc-speech-alone-fix-it/492557/
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racial-figle_b_9033224


    25 min
  • Season 2 Episode 2, the American Political Party System

    In this episode, we explore the foundations of American political parties, how they have changed over time, and some of the reasons for that party system being so persistent.


    Sources: 


    Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans:


    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/duel-federalist-and-republican-party/


    Party realignments:


    http://www.mit.edu/~17.261/clubb.pdf


    Southern Strategy:


    https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf

    Durverger’s law:

    https://electionscience.org/commentary-analysis/voting-theory-what-is-duvergers-law/

    Netflix: Get Me Roger Stone 

    26 min
  • Truth in the 21st Century, a threat to Public Safety

    In this episode, I dive through some of the challenges that are presented to a notion of objective truth. Having done that, I tell the story of how a safe space was created for white America that has led to the public being asked to try disinfectants instead of vaccines.


    1. Sunstein: https://www.amazon.com/Republic-com-2-0-Cass-R-Sunstein/dp/0691143285

    2. Baudrillard: https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Baudrillard-Selected-Writings-Second/dp/0804742731/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=selected+writings+of+jean+baudrillard&qid=1589138516&s=books&sr=1-1

    26 min
  • Universal Basic Income as a Public Health Tool

    In this episode, I examine the concept of Universal Basic Income  (UBI), as well as its critiques. I then offer it as a public health tool in order to slow the spread of COVID19 and help with labor relations.


    Sources:
    UBI Definition: https://basicincome.stanford.edu/about/what-is-ubi/
    Alaska Oil Dividend: https://www.aoga.org/facts-and-figures/permanent-fund-dividend
    Fouksman Article in Quartz: https://qz.com/1355729/universal-basic-income-ubi-costs-far-less-than-you-think/

    FDIC on Underbanking: https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/2017/2017execsumm.pdf

    Medicare:https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity-4/?currentTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=white--black--hispanic--other--total&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

    SNAP: https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2018.pdf

    TANF: https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/resource-files/Characteristics2018.pdf

    Locke's Second Treatise: https://amzn.to/2z8bv3v

    Paine Agrarian Justice: https://amzn.to/3d974Es




    26 min
  • Class in Times of Crisis

    In this episode, I propose a class-based analysis of the COVID 19 crisis. Having done that, I use Ellen DeGeneres as an example of how we get talked into really awful ideas through false consciousness.


    Sources:
    Marx and Engels, The German Ideology: https://amzn.to/2SaKUJR

    Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: https://amzn.to/2xRyBvm

    Guardian Article on the Crisis:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/heads-we-win-tails-you-lose-how-americas-rich-have-turned-pandemic-into-profit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_News_Feed&fbclid=IwAR12MoKW3w2AEIRDX-9SbR27kIT2HW9bu-T-mQR9TyWHqKiHykF1Skk0snY


    Time Article on Stimulus: https://time.com/5825368/stimulus-payment-problems/


    Ellen on Hanging out with Dubya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZtjol7mJA


    ACLU on Ellen's mansion being like jail: https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbt-rights/im-queer-and-ive-been-in-solitary-ellen-isnt-experiencing-what-i-did/


    Ellen's staffing issues: https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ellen-crew-furious-over-poor-communication-regarding-pay-non-union-workers-during-coronavirus-shutdown-exclusive-1234582735/


    29 min
  • Purpose Without Work

    In this episode, I explore how we came to value work so much in our own identities.  Having done that, I try to offer a few philosophical ways out in trying to redefine ourselves without work being the center of our lives.


    Sources:
    Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:  https://amzn.to/2wVuRsa
    Arendt, The Human Condition: https://amzn.to/3cwJAZM

    Thoreau, "The Last Days of John Brown": https://americanliterature.com/author/henry-david-thoreau/essay/the-last-days-of-john-brown

    Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics: https://amzn.to/34MCPjC



    28 min
  • Isolation: Stoic and Existentialist Perspectives

    In this episode, I examine stoicism and existentialism in seeking tools that might help us ajdust better to being isolated from one another during a global pandemic.  Having done that examination, I offer a little of my own philosophical advice.


    Sources:
    Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations :http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

    Albert Camus, The Plague :https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-plague.pdf

    The Myth of Sisyphus: http://schmieder.fmp-berlin.info/collectibles/pdf/sisyphos_eng.pdf

    Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis : https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm

    29 min
  • Working from Home, Anxiety, and Capitalism

    In this episode I walk through one explanation of why we might be so anxious about working from home.  Also, I offer a few things we might be able to do about it.


    Sources:
    1.  https://www.versobooks.com/books/2819-radical-happiness

    2. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~daneis/symposium/2012/readings/Twenge2010.pdf

    3.  https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Punish-Prison-Michel-Foucault/dp/0679752552

    4. https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf

    5. https://www.versobooks.com/books/1570-24-7


    28 min
  • Welcome To The Praxeum

    In this episode, I introduce the podcast, myself, and our plan for moving forward. Thanks for listening, and I look forward to getting your feedback!

    14 min

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A podcast about ideas and questions that trouble and drive us. Join us as we discuss current events, history, and philosophy in our search for answers in these complicated times.