Listen "Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich"
Episode Synopsis
Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era ideas of progress and Western civilization collapsed time and space around the bumbling, destructive European ideology of early capitalism, and why those ideas still mis-guide the bumbling, destructive European ideology of late capitalism on a dying planet.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich
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