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and by verso books, which has loads of great left-wing titles.

Perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is an event, perhaps.

A biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon.

For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy

responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth.

For the far right, he is one of the architects of cultural Marxism.

To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to

little more than an object of ridicule.

For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature,

politics, and linguistics.

In an event, perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure

as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times.

An event, perhaps, a biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon, out now from verso books.

I am taking a week off to play catch-up,

and so I'm posting an early dig episode that people keep returning to time and again.

My interview with Barbara and Karen Fields, the authors of Racecraft,

the soul of inequality in American life.

Thank you, as always, for listening, and I'll be back next week with a new episode.

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