144: The Sexual Roots of Identity Politics—Mary Eberstadt
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🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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How did the culture get so chaotic so quickly? Identity politics taints everything it touches; sexual minorities clamor for rights that didn’t exist five years ago; violence has replaced reason in public discourse.
How did we get here?
This is the gargantuan problem tackled by scholar and social critic Mary Eberstadt in her latest book, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. In light of the level of rage that has taken over public conversations, on and off line, how can we get traction with ideologues on the Left? Eberstadt says we must begin by listening and understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 144 of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to this edition of the Patrick Coffin Show. |
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| 1:00.8 | Nice segue to the topic. Every once in a while a book comes along that puts a lot of important |
| 1:05.3 | ideas into one place. And the book we're going to be talking about today and the author, Mary |
| 1:09.9 | Eberstadt, connects so many dots about the reason why I started |
| 1:15.4 | Confination. About a year ago I made the statement that a few years before that it |
| 1:20.4 | felt like we were galloping toward the abyss. |
| 1:23.3 | Well now in 2019 as we record this, |
| 1:25.2 | it feels like the abyss is galloping toward us. |
| 1:28.4 | Transgender, identity politics, rage on campuses, the isolation dislocation caused by so-called internet |
| 1:36.1 | communities. Where did it all start? How do we get back to normal? What is normal? Is normal |
| 1:40.9 | just a setting on the dryer? |
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