/395/ A Coup From Within the Computer ft. Benjamin Studebaker (excerpt)

On media and the Millennial Left.
 


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Continuing the retrospective on the millennial left's failures, we invite political theorist Benjamin Studebaker back on. We discuss:


Was left-populism a media event? 


Was the Millennial Left just a moment in internet history?


Having bought into the internet's possibilities, can we abandon it?


Does it make sense to speak of a "millennial" left? 


Faced with so many dead ends, do we need to "go monastic"?



Links:


The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History, Benjamin Studebaker


Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left, Alex Hochuli, American Affairs. Additional comments on Alex's Substack