Jennifer C. Pan: Selling Social Justice | Doomscroll

My guest is Jen Pan, formerly a host of The Jacobin Show ‪@JacobinMag‬ and a staff writer at the New Republic. She is the author of Selling Social Justice — out now from Verso Books ‪@VersoBooks‬. Part 2:   / doomscroll-jen-128861243   We discuss the DEI industry, the New Deal, American inequality and why the rich love anti-racism. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, Dissent, and Damage Magazine.   / joshuacitarella   0:00 Intro 1:02 The Great Compression 1940-1970 8:23 History of DEI 14:15 Dealignment 22:59 Cultural Marxism 28:30 Structural racism & wealth gap 34:22 Race-targeting & means-testing 48:10 Enlightenment values vs 1968 57:00 Peak woke