The Dig: The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz

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🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn't exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece "On Safari in Trump's America" for The Atlantic. Her article follows the centrist organization Third Way on a “listening tour” of the real America. Then @EricLevitz (35:52), who just published on op-ed in the New York Times entitled “America is not ‘center-right," sorts through research to argue that what Americans often mean when they say they are “moderate” is not the combination of superficial social progressivism and neoliberalism that Wall-Street-aligned Third Way types think they mean. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries versobooks.com/books/2501-grand-hotel-abyss Support us with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com
0:05.0	and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles
0:10.0	perfect for dig listeners like you. One new book that might be of interest is
0:15.8	Grand Hotel Abyss, The Lives of the Frankfurt school by Stuart Jeffries. Who were the Frankfurt school and why do they matter today?
0:26.0	In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together in Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world.
0:38.0	Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt school were the philosophers Walter Benyamine, Theodore
0:44.8	Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse.
0:49.0	Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.
0:56.4	Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the 20th century.
1:07.0	Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of
1:15.0	understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism by taking
1:19.6	popular culture seriously as an object of study, Whether it was film, music, ideas, or
1:25.2	consumerism, the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our
1:31.0	mass-produced mechanized society.
1:35.0	Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us
1:39.2	about our age of social media and Runaway Consumption.
1:44.0	Grand Hotel Abyss, The Lives of the Frankfurt School, by Stuart Jeffries.
1:49.0	Out now from Verso Books. or so books.
1:57.0	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.
2:03.7	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
2:09.2	Molly Ball, the first of my two guests, just had an utterly illuminating piece published in the Atlantic
2:16.4	where she was a political writer before she recently moved to time.
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