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0:00 Musa’s track record as Trump-reader and his new book, We Have Never Been Woke
1:55 The reason Trump won—twice
14:25 Messaging that works for the working class
20:34 Has the left lost the faith(ful)?
27:15 Who is wokeness even for?
33:20 Biden’s bad messaging
35:40 Why elites failed to deliver on social justice
51:04 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Musa al-Gharbi (Stony Brook University, We Have Never Been Woke, https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/). Recorded January 29, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 The March for Science: A case study in elite failure
9:17 Elite overproduction, symbolic capitalists, and the “great awokening”
19:04 The life cycle of social justice movements
38:12 Is the right overplaying its hand on anti-wokeness?
