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Jen Pan on the New Old Left

Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

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Is It Easier to Be a Social Democrat Than a Mediatist?

The art world is a difficult case because it's always been luxury status, but it is now like orders of magnitude more luxury. I think in this case, you know, legacy media institutions is a pretty direct case for elite capture. There's also universities as well where the elimination of tenure has led to coincidentally removing left-wing perspectives from higher education in many cases. It's much, much easier to talk about things like white supremacy and anti-blackness and settler colonialism than talking about getting healthcare.

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