Season 4 Episode 10: Debating Sohrab Ahmari on Social Democracy w/Right-Wing Characteristics

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Happy Labor Day! Ben Burgis & the GTAA crew start things up by talking a bit about the fairly astonishing number of labor victories around the country since last year's Labor Day, and talk about some egregious (and very funny) instances of conservative hypocrisy on student debt forgiveness, labor unions, free speech, and the value of debate.

The main event is a debate between Ben and Compact magazine founder Sohrab Ahmari. Compact's statement of editorial vision calls for "a strong social-democratic state that defends community — local and national, familial and religious — against a libertine left and a libertarian right."

Ben critiqued that vision and defended the libertine left in an article for Jacobin shortly after Compact's launch:

https://jacobin.com/2022/03/right-wing-social-democracy-conservatism-compact-magazine-media

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