Behind the News: The New New Left w/ Raina Lipsitz

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jamieson Webster, author of a recent opinion piece in the Times, examines what severe psychological distress among adolescents is telling us about American society. Then Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left, looks at the history, personnel, and status of today’s radicalism.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henrywood.
0:36.0	Today, James and Webster investigates why adolescents are so stressed and suicidal
0:40.0	and read ellipsis surveys the state of the new new left in the U.S.
0:44.0	Earlier this month, the sequentialist James and Webster had a piece in the New York Times
0:48.0	that ran under the title Teenagers Are Telling Us That Something Is Wrong in America,
0:52.0	which is a good summary of her argument.
0:54.0	Adolescents in this country are killing themselves at high rates,
0:57.0	ER visits for psychiatric crises are increasingly frequent,
1:00.0	and even those who don't reach those extremes of distress
1:03.0	are reporting troubling levels of anxiety and despair.
1:06.0	This is typically framed as a mental health crisis, which it is, of course,
1:10.0	but the temptation is then to personalize those difficulties.
1:13.0	Webster argues this is wrong.
1:15.0	These are signs of a profound crisis in American society,
1:18.0	and know it's not all about being a teenager.
1:21.0	It's far more serious than that sort of cliche.
1:23.0	James and Webster has been in this show several times before
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