John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner & Tyler Austin Harper – The Gaza War and the Crisis of Liberalism

0:00 The state of campus speech after 10/7

5:48 Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel?

15:43 “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas

26:17 Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics

29:31 The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams

38:17 The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea”

43:41 The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding

47:49 If not liberalism, then what?

53:51 Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart

Recorded November 18, 2023

Links and Readings

Daniel’s podcast, American Prestige

Glenn’s conversation with Yascha Mounk (recorded October 3, 2023)

Adam Shatz’s book, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Lisa Stampnitzky’s book, Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism”

Daniel’s essay in the Nation, “A Bad Breakup”

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s book, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Daniel’s Harper’s essay, “Empire Burlesque”