Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Episode 223: The Counterintelligentsia Strikes Back!
Play Now!I've described before how ideas originated in academia have caught society’s collective popular vision. How much of that content, though, was intended to benefit only the wealthy? I explore this in Episode 223: The Counterintelligentsia Strikes Back!In this episode, I read from Nancy MacLean's book Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan For America. I also mentioned in passing Benjamin Hunnicutt's book Kellogg's Six-Hour Day and Arlie Russell Hochshield's book Strangers in Their Own Land.I played: bits of two online videos featuring a mash-up of newsreels from 1957's Arkansas integration fight. D. L. Myers voiced the stinger for the Powell Movement.Musically, I finished the body of the episode with Lee Rosevere's appropriately named "Intervention". KMFDM backed Henry Giroux in the introduction, and I'm closing today with Mistle Thrush.
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Hi Jim,
ReplyDeleteNot to worry, I wasn't abducted by aliens for the last year and a half. I did enjoy this episode when it came out and chuckled at your reference to me and KKFI. Fun fact, I grew up in Topeka and we most definitely were taught that it was called Brown Vs Topeka Board of Education. (The daughter of the little girl at the center of that case was in my high school class.) Recently, I noticed that Alice Friedemann did this book report https://energyskeptic.com/2024/book-review-of-democracy-in-chains-the-history-of-how-extremist-republicans-stealthily-stole-our-democracy/#more-10205 that you might find interesting. I don't know if you read her blog. Like you, she reads a lot and takes good notes.
Brent
Brent! I just noticed you commented here. (The Searchies have disabled comment notification, probably as per their policy of enshittification. Whatevs.)
ReplyDeleteBy complete coincidence, I just finished posting 251 after a fine dinner in Bothell. Thanks again for that!
I'll look into your links later. Like, after I work. Which will be after I turn in for the night.
Later, and thanks!
—Jim