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Evaluating We Have Never Been Woke, Part 3: Economics

Evaluating We Have Never Been Woke, Part 3: Economics

In his book We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi examines the worldview of symbolic capitalists in great detail. Much of what he describes looks very familiar to me (although the fact that I see the behavior al-Gharbi describes so regularly is itself something I consider as having very little weight as evidence — I’ll […]

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We Have Never Been Woke, Part 9: Why Have Elites Never Been Woke?

Evaluating We Have Never Been Woke, Part 3: Economics

(This post is part of a series that began with this post.) The overarching theme of Musa al-Gharbi’s book is examining the gap between the ideas most supported by those who are woke and the actions of those same people. While al-Gharbi isn’t overtly hostile to woke ideas as such, he is troubled by how […]

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We Have Never Been Woke Part 2: Of “We” and “Wokeness”

We Have Never Been Woke Part 2: Of “We” and “Wokeness”

At the end of my last post, I said I’d be following up by describing both some of Musa al-Gharbi’s modes of analysis and assumptions in his book We Have Never Been Woke, and outline who is the “we” he describes, and what he means by “woke.” First, the ground rules. Musa al-Gharbi sets out […]

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An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part III

An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part III

Polities and Economics In the first article of this series, I outlined what an economic approach to reading Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, might look like. I then turned to Homer’s treatment of comparative political regimes in the second article. In this final essay, I return briefly to The Odyssey’s polities, and then consider the lessons the heroic tale […]

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