We Have Never Been Woke / Musa al-Gharbi
People who are inclined to participate in things like activism [could] ask themselves in a as honest as you can, “is there a story? Is there a plausible story in which the thing that I'm doing here will actually advance in a meaningful way the thing that I'm trying to accomplish?
Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi returns to discuss his new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, published just today by Princeton University Press. "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
Musa is currently on a book tour. Check out the dates here.
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Guest
Musa al-Gharbi
Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He is a columnist for The Guardian and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications.