Fredrik deBoer

Dec 29, 2023 | compactmag.com | Fredrik deBoer |Yascha Mounk |Adolph Reed Jr. |Walter Benn Michaels

The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity PoliticsBy Richard HananiaBroadside, 288 pages, $32 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our TimeBy Yascha MounkPenguin, 416 pages, $32 No Politics But Class PoliticsBy Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn MichaelsEris, 390 pages, $25 Ten years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates, then a rising writer at The Atlantic, attended a gathering of liberal journalists at the White House.

Nov 9, 2023 | christiancentury.org | Fredrik deBoer |Amy Frykholm |Yonat Shimron |Isaac S. Villegas

In 2021, a scandal arose in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It began with the irregular dismissal, by the regional leadership, of a pastor serving a mostly immigrant mission congregation that had more people but less money than many self-governing congregations. An ad hoc investigation by the national church turned up bizarre decisions made by the bishop, some with implications that seemed racially insensitive at best.

Nov 8, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Fredrik deBoer |Katrina Gulliver |Dave Barfield |Elizabeth Amato

If you look at the successful leftist movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, one thing they had in common was the ability to stay on message. Photos of rallies for the 8-hour day show placards calling for 8 hours of work, 8 hours of recreation, and 8 hours of rest. They do not show people carrying signs for a bunch of other unrelated issues. Yet if you look at protests today, they’re somehow all about everything.

Sep 13, 2023 | plough.com | Fredrik deBoer |Leah Libresco |Susannah Black Roberts

Leah and Susannah grill Fredrik deBoer on the state of leftist politics. What happened in 2020 and why have things not changed more? How does a self-described leftist perceive the stakes and priorities of America’s political divide? What happens when labor power is no longer at the center of leftist politics? They then discuss his 2020 book The Cult of Smart, and Leah presses him on where he derives his sense of the existential worth of each human being.

Sep 4, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Fredrik deBoer

Though the term “identity politics” is typically hurled against progressives, in the 21st century the right plays identity politics just as much as the left.