SIO226: Ben Burgis on Logic, the Left, and Joe Rogan's Endorsement
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben Burgis teaches philosophy at Rutgers. He also writes for Jacobin, and delivers regular essays to his patrons, in addition to appearing on the Michael Brooks show regularly. He recently wrote a book called Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. We discuss his book, the left in general, and the arguments over Bernie being endorsed by Joe Rogan.
***due to a number of technical issues before and during the recording, we ran out of time and the interview had to end a bit abruptly. Apologies for that!***
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas Smith. That's Jamie. How you doing Jamie? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm doing really well. I'm excited because we have a special guest today. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm excited too. Why don't you go ahead and tell everybody who our |
| 0:44.0 | special guest is. Ben Burgess he is a philosophy instructor at Georgia State |
| 0:48.8 | University Primeter College and the author of Give Them an argument, Logic for the left. |
| 0:54.0 | He's also a regular weekly contributor to Jacobin magazine and he does a regular weekly |
| 0:58.7 | segment on the Michael Brooke Show called The Dubont. |
| 1:01.4 | Also, before I forget, Ben is going to be at the Bell House in |
| 1:06.2 | Brooklyn on February 7th. They're going to be doing a live taping of the Michael |
| 1:11.0 | Brook Show. And if you are are local I'm going to do my |
| 1:14.4 | damnedest to also get there so you'll be able to see Ben and also possibly even me |
| 1:18.9 | welcome Ben thank you welcome the show yeah Jamie that was far too professional for this show. |
| 1:24.0 | So next time do a little, I don't know, do a little worse or something. |
| 1:27.0 | That sounded amazing. |
| 1:28.0 | Then, so glad to have you. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm really interested in the book you've written, |
| 1:33.7 | give them an argument, logic for the left. |
| 1:36.0 | So was this in response the idea that Ben Shapiro and all those folks have that it's |
| 1:40.4 | like, oh the left is a illogical whatever and the right has all the |
| 1:44.4 | logic bros. Is it that in that kind of vein or is it something else entirely? |
| 1:48.3 | In part it is. So I think that the dynamic that was bugging me when I wrote the book and I should say that Doug Lane, the editor at Zero books, like this was originally his his idea but then when I sort of got |
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