Musa al-Gharbi

Musa al-Gharbi

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Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and author of : The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Described by the New York Times as "as a rising intellectual star", his book argues that the language of social justice is increasingly used to justify a new social elite, and to portray the the marginalized and disadvantaged as deserving their lot because they think or say the 鈥渨rong鈥 things about race, gender, and sexuality. He is currently based at the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University.

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    Ideas Podcast: We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi We Have Never Been Woke Society has never been more egalitarian鈥攊n theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely r... Read More