Jesse Singal on Crises in Politics and Social Science

If you were in progressive communities, you know, from, I don't know, 2015 on, it was clear this set of rules and norms involving identity had emerged. And a lot of it really was whoever is more oppressed wins. And it, you know, it sounds ridiculous in retrospect, but that That really was how it worked. And it was always such a dead end because it's so complicated.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. My guest today is Jesse Single. Jesse is the host of BarPot, a podcast with Katie Herzog about online political culture. He is a writer who's written for The Economist and The Atlantic and the New York Times magazine about many issues touching on social science and some of the debates around trans questions.

We talked about a bunch of different issues. We talked about how people who are very worried about Donald Trump and opposed to right-wing populism more broadly But who also have criticisms of the identitarian obsessions of parts of the left can maneuver this political moment. Who has reacted to it in a principled way, criticizing the Trump administration when it attacked free speech or due process? And who has not lived up to that test?

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