# Orlando Patterson

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S5 E23 | For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Death of Knowledge

In 2022 Counterweight, the organization that Helen Pluckrose founded and that was absorbed into the Institute for Liberal Values had a virtual conference on Alternatives to Diversity and Inclusion. Starting in 2025, we will be rolling out one talk a month that was presented at the conference. We si…

/509/ The Revenge of Ethnic Chauvinism ft. Orlando Patterson

On slavery, racism, and the politics of freedom. Renowned sociologist Orlando Patterson talks to contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about themes brought up by his recent The Paradox of Freedom as well as his works as a whole. Why is the study of slavery too affected by the exceptional US Ame…

Harvard's Brilliant Sociologist, Orlando Patterson, Discusses The Paradox of Freedom

Orlando Patterson is simply mesmerizing. We all take "freedom" for granted. But Orlando has studied what it is and isn't -- now and across the millenia. The result of this immensely deep as well as deeply fascinating scholarship is a sober take on what we take for granted -- that freedom is clear c…

John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price, and At the Margins of Nihilism

Along with dozens of scholarly articles and a handful of edited books and journal issues, he is the author of seven books: Sensibility and Singularity (2001), Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008), Levinas and the Postcolonial (2012), Glissant and the Middle Passage (2019), and three recent…

John E. Drabinski - Department of Africana Studies, University of Maryland (book podcast collaboration)

Along with dozens of scholarly articles and a handful of edited books and journal issues, he is the author of seven books: Sensibility and Singularity (2001), Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008), Levinas and the Postcolonial (2012), Glissant and the Middle Passage (2019), and three recent…

the truth about choice feminism

hi everyone, welcome or welcome back to my podcast! i’m finally back after a long break because i’ve finished my semester!! today’s episode is about the truth about choice feminism. we’re getting into why feminism is not just about individual choices, why that framing is limited, and how it shows…

Rajiv Sethi – Taking Bets on the Presidency

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 0:00 Rajiv’s report from the FIRE conference 3:11 Roland Fryer’s keynote address 13:26 Ta-Nehisi Coates’s humanist universalism 17:25 “…

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner – Remembering October 7

Buy Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349 2:29 Have we already forgotten the horror of October 7? 9:22 Ben: We can’t ignore the loss of innocent life in Gaza 13:58 “From the riv…

John McWhorter – How Should We Handle Antisemitism?

0:00 Why are we paying so much attention to Kanye West’s antisemitism? 14:02 The two words you never say together 23:28 Could widespread antisemitism take hold in the US? 36:53 The mythological black past and the realities of the present 48:12 How necessary is rootedness to the modern human experie…