From his time co-hosting “The Majority Report” to launching his own show, Michael was known for his sense of humor-not to mention his iconic laughter or his impressions. Years before the irreverent “Chapo Trap House” or the salacious “Cumtown” podcasts spawned the rise of the “Dirtbag Left,” Michael’s refreshingly provocative humor stood in stark contrast to the stereotype of leftists as the uptight social equivalent of hall monitors. I’ll cut to the chase: Michael was the funniest man in left-wing media. Today, the Left has many lessons to learn from his life’s work. Left mourned the unexpected death of Michael Brooks, a progressive political commentator and host of “The Michael Brooks Show,” a weekly podcast with over 140,000 YouTube subscribers. He firmly opposes performative “ultra-wokeness” and support individual rights.A year ago, the U.S. From there, he takes the left to task for failing to adequately respond to the IDW’s arguments. The only alternative to both those options, Brooks asserts, is a rejuvenated, internationalist, cosmopolitan left. As describes a crossroads that represented with Hungary, which is ruled by openly racist right wing reactionary parties, and Singapore, which is a neo-liberal technocracy where all races and creeds are respected so long as you know your place and don’t try and rock the boat. This seemed a little harsh to me, but what I really appreciated was his next point. “Crucially, in all of these areas, the IDW promotes narratives that either naturalize or mythologized historically contingent power relations-between workers and bosses, between men and women, they are old school reactionaries.” The reason Brooks classifies the IDW largely on the right is because they defend the “capitalist economic order”, American imperial hegemony, and are all generally united in their opposition to the left.
While Weiss claims that the IDW’s ideas wouldn’t have been considered controversial a decade ago, he points out that the film PCU was about exactly that and was made in the 90s. Brooks makes the point that the concerns of the IDW are actually a rehash of the same culture war concerns that have been present in American politics for decades. In chapter 1, titled Meet the New Right: the Intellectual Dark Web and Capital’s Contradictions, he starts from the beginning, Bari Weiss’ article introducing the IDW. It’s a critique of the IDW, especially Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro.
I’ve been read Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right by Michael Brooks.
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