Savage Minds

Women's rights campaigner and founder of Standing For Women, Kellie-Jay Keen, discusses the rift among feminists seeking to denigrate right-wing women, free speech and the myth of left-wing compassion with Julian Vigo. Also known by the name Posie Parker, Keen covers her political actions to include the posting of billboards and stickers with the definition of the word “woman” and her recent arrest. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Glenn Loury addresses Black Lives Matter, our cultural fixation on slavery, the current debate over police brutality and the uses and abuses of social media with Julian Vigo. Examining the “Karen” incident of Central Park this summer, Loury queries the “counterweight to the unspoken—but much more overpoweringly, empirically resonant reality” of a narrative which plays heavily in the American political and media landscape. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Heather Brunskell-Evans discusses John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, identity politics, the current philosophical and legal discourses on sexual violence, and the politics of “kindness” with Julian Vigo. Focussing upon many of the misrepresentations of Foucault’s work in recent years, Brunskell-Evans offers ways in which we might better understand liberalism and how Foucault asks us to consider both the body and our presumed freedoms.If you've been thinking about supporting Savage Minds, but have not yet done so, please consider taking out a subscription, by supporting our work on Patreon or through a one-off donation. We really can't do this without you and we depend on financial support which means that we can cover the news unfettered by corporate pressure. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Savage Minds presents its launch podcast with Noam Chomsky who speaks with Julian Vigo about the international mitigation efforts for dealing with COVID-19, US politics, ecological catastrophe, internationalism, feminism and identity politics. Chomsky lays bare the situation of politics within and outside the United States and why the left needs to focus on working class issues, public health, and the current ecological disaster. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe