Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson

[Horace]

@George-K said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

@Renauda said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

Not sure about none

Who are some of today’s “thinkers?” Peterson’s become kind of a nasty parody of himself.

Informative is the fact that most of the ones who've escaped full cancelation are black. Glenn Loury is an admitted conservative. McWhorter leans that way on some cultural issue but won't self identify as a conservative.

One of the problems is the label has been absconded with by Trump, but nobody with any pretense towards public thinking, is a full Trump supporter that I'm aware of. I don't know where VDH stands these days. He'll vote for the R even if it's Trump, but I don't know if he'd support Trump in the primary.

[Horace]

DeSantis advisor Chris Rufo is described by many as an important current political thinker.

[Horace]

Dennis Prager is a consistent provider of good political thought IMO.

Economics has to trend left in the future probably even more sharply than it's trended over the past few years. Economic conservatives have a tough row to hoe. They will self marginalize, or get with the times. I suspect AI is going to be a gut punch to capitalism, though the ideals of it can still hopefully be reimagined in a way that continues to organize civilizations, and give people meaning.

[jon-nyc]

I guess I see intellectuals as a more or less distinct class from activists and mere pundits like the names you mention. But maybe Loury and McWhorter should be so considered.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

I guess I see intellectuals as a more or less distinct class from activists and mere pundits like the names you mention. But maybe Loury and McWhorter should be so considered.

I wouldn't be too precious with the word. People like Ezra Klein and Jonah Goldberg and VDH are public intellectuals.

[Renauda]

VDH certainly. The other two are more well read pundits than intellectuals.

[Horace]

Well there's no licensing board. I've heard Goldberg and Klein refer to themselves as public intellectuals, and I've heard others refer to them that way. As PIs go, IMO they qualify. They write books, and engage in discussions in the public square, and people care what they think.

[Renauda]

Fine, your choice. Doesn’t change my mind that they are otherwise.

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

@jon-nyc said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

I guess I see intellectuals as a more or less distinct class from activists and mere pundits like the names you mention. But maybe Loury and McWhorter should be so considered.

I wouldn't be too precious with the word. People like Ezra Klein and Jonah Goldberg and VDH are public intellectuals.

Yeah but the “public” in front of it makes them a bit more pundit-y.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

@Horace said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

@jon-nyc said in Why Russia Embraces Tucker Carlson:

I guess I see intellectuals as a more or less distinct class from activists and mere pundits like the names you mention. But maybe Loury and McWhorter should be so considered.

I wouldn't be too precious with the word. People like Ezra Klein and Jonah Goldberg and VDH are public intellectuals.

Yeah but the “public” in front of it makes them a bit more pundit-y.

In practice, I take it to mean that they think and communicate serious, well-informed thoughts about cultural issues. As opposed to people who think and communicate serious, well-informed thoughts about things with no cultural valence. The word "public" distinguishes those two sorts.