On Democracy with Aishwary Kumar

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Robert Harrison

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Aishwary Kumar is Professor and Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Political Nonviolence at California State and Polytechnic University, Pomona, Los Angeles. Aishwary is the author of “Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy”– subject of two Entitled Opinions episodes back in 2016. He returns to the show today to speak on what he calls […]

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0:00.0	This is KCSU, Stanford.
0:07.0	Welcome to entitled opinions. My name is Robert. This is KCSU Stanford.
0:21.9	Welcome to entitled opinions.
0:24.2	My name is Robert Harrison,
0:26.1	and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.
0:52.2	Thank you. Welcome back to the Feast of Friends and the Giant Family,
0:55.4	beyond the reach of capitalist realism,
0:58.3	beyond the reach of the technological absurd,
1:01.0	beyond the reach of the Internet Complex and the Dower Society of Spectacle,
1:04.4	we practice the persecuted religion of thinking here
1:07.7	in these catacombs of KZSU.
1:11.6	Again, the show is called entitled opinions, as in everybody is entitled to my opinion,
1:18.6	as well as the opinions of my guests.
1:21.5	And if you cherish this show and think it's in a category all its own, you have earned a title
1:27.2	to your opinion as well.
1:29.4	If, on the other hand, you prefer to wallow in the mire,
1:32.7	so be it.
1:34.1	The pursuit of happiness takes many different forms
1:36.7	in this weird nation of ours,
1:39.1	and wallowing in the mire is one of them.
1:46.9	Silence must be hurt or die
1:50.0	man of winter And speaking of
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