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Wisdom of Crowds

Episode 11: The Weaponization of Wokeness

Feb 13, 2020
01:05:20

Shadi and Damir talk about how racism, virtue signaling, the fundamental illegitimacy of the Chinese state, and how both consensus and irreconcilability can be fatal for democracy.

Reading List:
China is the Real Sick Man of Asia” by Walter Russell Mead

Birth of the Nations” by Damir Marusic

It’s Not About Britain. It’s About Europe” by Damir Marusic

The dark side of consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019” by Sharan Grewal and Shadi Hamid

After Europe” by Ivan Krastev



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