The Dig: Reasonable Men Calming You Down with Moira Weigel
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Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re addressing one of the most obnoxious corners of the identity politics debate. And that is the corner occupied by Right Liberals who believe that any desire to change the world is a divisive symptom of maladjusted affluenza emanating from pampered college students. Moira Weigel discusses her Guardian review of The Coddling of the American Mind, which makes its case by way of pragmatic folk aphorisms like: “Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child”.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com |
| 0:05.2 | and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for Dig listeners like you. |
| 0:16.4 | One that you might like is the 2019 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner. A stylish diary filled with radical historical dates |
| 0:21.4 | from across the world. |
| 0:23.2 | The 2019 Verso Radical Diary is a beautifully designed week to view planner where you can keep |
| 0:29.1 | track of the year ahead. |
| 0:31.2 | Alongside illustrations and book excerpts it features significant radical dates from |
| 0:36.0 | throughout history including the English Civil War and Black Panther |
| 0:39.5 | movement through to the protests of 1968 and feminist emancipation, |
| 0:44.0 | touching on the lives of revolutionary such as Angela Davis, Rosa Luxembourg, |
| 0:48.0 | and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:50.0 | The 2019 edition includes illustrations from Savage Messiah, Laura Oldfield Ford's brilliant |
| 0:57.7 | psycho geographic graphic novel, as well as extracts from brand new Verso Books, |
| 1:03.5 | including Revolting Prostitudes, New Dark Age, |
| 1:06.8 | and Paradise Rot. |
| 1:09.0 | The 2019 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner. |
| 1:13.0 | Out now from none other than Verso Books. |
| 1:17.0 | Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm |
| 1:30.0 | recording this introduction in Montreal, but recorded the interview that will follow, as usual, in Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:38.0 | Recently, we have talked a lot about identity politics on this show. We've critiqued liberal |
| 1:44.3 | identity politics and then we've also made the case that while liberal |
| 1:48.4 | identity politics are reactionary, racism and patriarchy are still central to the operation of capitalism. |
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