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On your questions & criticism regarding pro-Palestine protests.

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In this episode we focus on the discussion generated by our episode that came out in early May on the protests on US campuses. We discuss the issues along a few axes:

• How do ideas of victimhood relate to the material reality of international politics?

• What really are the aims of the protesters and how likely are they to achieve them?

• Are we cynical in our approach or conclusions?

• How do the protests relate to populism and the end of the End of History?

• What is the proper basis of nationhood?

• How do these protests relate to the millennial Left?

We also deal with your points on Civil War, the state funding of culture, and whether Joe Rogan is a good male role model.

Readings:

• Vulnerability as Ideology, Peter Ramsay, Northern Star

• The victimological imagination, Matthew B. Crawford, Substack