You’re Not Welcome Here Ep. 5: “It’s Not Like Social Media”

Contemporary critics on both the right and the left essentially accuse those who politically mobilize around social identities of being fundamentally selfish in nature. The charge is that their politics reflects only personal interest, that they seek special treatment or privilege on the basis of an identity that isn’t shared with others, and that they […]

J6 ONE YEAR LATER, Ep. 5: The Violence of Playing Indian

Dr. Dana Lloyd is an expert on Native American religious traditions and faculty at Villanova University. She speaks to Brad about how the QAnon Shaman’s appropriation of Native American symbols extends a long lineage of White people “playing Indian.” According to Dr. Lloyd, “playing Indian” is a means of eliminating indigenous peoples by using their […]

You’re Not Welcome Here, Ep. 4: “Why Now?”

If all of politics involves “identity,” and if we all possess identities, why do so many feel like contemporary “identity politics” is something new and experience it as threatening? If identity has always been a fundamental part of shared social and political life, why does identity figure so prominently in that shared life now? In […]

You’re Not Welcome Here, Ep. 3: “Identities are like elbows and a**holes.”

What is identity? It isn’t something limited to particular social groups claiming equal rights or something that only applies to minority groups of different kinds. On the contrary, “identity” is something we all have and it’s how we categorize and sort individuals and groups to shape our shared social life. It’s also fundamental to our […]

Identities are like elbows and a***holes.

What is identity? It isn’t something limited to particular social groups claiming equal rights or something that only applies to minority groups of different kinds. On the contrary, “identity” is something we all have and it’s how we categorize and sort individuals and groups to shape our shared social life. It’s also fundamental to our […]

J6 One Year Later, Ep 3: It’s Us Against Them

Brad interviews Phil Gorski, Professor of Sociology at Yale, and the author of the new co-authored book with Sam Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to Democracy. Gorski breaks down how the rioters thought about the Insurrection–it was not about right or wrong. It was about us vs them. […]

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