Podcast Episodes

Why Didn't Blue Cities Going Woke Help the Marginalized?

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Season 1 Episode 4

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Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi is having a well-deserved moment. His highly praised new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite (Princeton University Press), released la…

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Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Will Trump’s win make the rocky marriage between big tech and big blue cities even worse?

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Season 1 Episode 3

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America’s bluest big cities are in a tense, co-dependent relationship with the tech giants that power their economies and anchor their prosperity. 

It didn’t start out that way. When tech giants first…

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Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Was the "insufferable left" to blame for Trump's big gains in blue cities?

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Season 1 Episode 2

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In decisively winning the presidency, some of Donald Trump’s biggest gains came in the places you’d least expect them: big blue cities and urban suburbs. A lot of Trump’s victory is due to voter diss…

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Published on 10 months ago

Dan Savage on Trumpism and the future of blue cities

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Season 1 Episode 1

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Twenty years ago, in the wake of a searing presidential defeat, Dan Savage encouraged progressives to move to blue cities and to fortify them into an “Urban Archipelago” of culturally separatist bast…

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Published on 10 months, 1 week ago