Musa al-Gharbi

Stony Brook

Asst. Professor @SBUjournalism. Author, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (now available in stores, from @PrincetonUPress)

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Ep. 168: Who Does Wokeness Benefit: A Deep Dive with Musa-al Gharbi

Jan 17, 2025 | washingtonstand.com | Joseph Backholm |Musa al-Gharbi

Musa al-Gharbi, professor and author of We Have Never Been Woke, examines wokeness as an elite-driven ideology. He addresses the question of who it truly serves: the elite or the working class. He explores how social justice has been used to gain power and social media's role in spreading woke principles. Resources
Questioning the Oppression Olympics – Jesse Smith

Nov 21, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Musa al-Gharbi |Jesse Smith |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon

The phenomenon colloquially known as “wokeness” has been subject to a number of analyses in recent years. For the most part, these focus on the development of woke ideas and how they have gained social influence. Some accounts point to left-modern liberalism, others emphasize postmodernism or critical theory.
Maybe you don't actually like democracy as much as you thought?

Nov 20, 2024 | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |Musa al-Gharbi |Matthew Loftus |Yuval Levin

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. By now, many Democrats’ why we lost narratives of the 2024 election are fairly measured. Particularly compared to this time in 2016, and especially at The New York Times, I’m seeing much less how could this happen?or look what those white women did!and more yeah, we had this comingand have for years. I’m guessing ’s book, We Have Never Been Woke, (see the review at CT if you haven’t yet) is selling well.
š® The Sunday edition #500: AI scaling; science FTW; reality vs the Democrats; BlueSky, woke Grok & artificial eclipse++

Nov 16, 2024 | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Musa al-Gharbi

Hi, itās Azeem. For 500 editions, every Sunday for nearly a decade, Exponential View has helped you navigate the future. Todayās milestone issue reveals the complexity of the coming years. Research shows a 30% decline in some freelance job opportunities since the release of ChatGPT. On the other hand, a breakthrough in materials discovery shows the sheer scale of the potential rewards.
Book Review-The Cynic’s Guide to Wokeness

Nov 13, 2024 | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Robert VerBruggen |Musa al-Gharbi

REVIEW: ‘We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite’ by Musa al-GharbiBy: Robert VerBruggenMost attacks on wokeness come from the right. To conservatives, the woke are dangerous because they’re sincerely committed to bad ideas—make every decision based on identity instead of merit, defund the police, speak in insufferable jargon to top it off—and push them through their positions in HR departments and government bureaucracies throughout the country.
TT 451: Musa al-Gharbi: WE HAVE NEVER BEEN WOKE

Nov 6, 2024 | iverson.substack.com | Ethan Iverson |Musa al-Gharbi

To some extent We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by prepared me for the election result. Highly recommended! It’s a breezy read by academic standards and I even laughed out loud a few times. To understand al-Gharbi’s argument, I needed to not just check my priors at the door, but also admit that I am part of the problem, part of the “new elite” of al-Gharbi’s title.
Picking and Choosing

Sep 10, 2024 | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing |Musa al-Gharbi |Francis Nicholas |Great Ealing

BITS OF HISTORYat Non-Boring Historyare historian Dr. Annette Laing’s posts about random items from her disorganized collection of junque antiquey thingies important historical artifacts. Ahem. Written off the cuff with little or no reference to academic history, so if you’re a professional academic historian and think I goofed? Get in touch. There's a voiceover for today's post, in which I wheel out my Scottish accent for a bit. Paying subscribers will see the link at the top of the page.
Opinion | Conservatives Are Rare in Academe. Is There Anything Wrong With That?

Sep 4, 2024 | chronicle.com | Mark Lilla |Musa al-Gharbi |Zena Hitz |Brian Leiter

Other claims I made have not aged so well, in particular regarding contemporary conservative movements. Mainstream American conservatism, I wrote then, “shares nothing meaningful with … protofascist figures. … Our conservatives accept the legitimacy of constitutional self-government, even when they hate the legislation and court decisions resulting from it; they play by the rules.” That was only 15 years ago.
Measuring Censorship in Science Is Challenging. Stopping it Is Harder Still

Dec 14, 2023 | fairfieldsuntimes.com | Musa al-Gharbi |Nicole Barbaro

In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship in science. Measuring censorship in science is difficult. It’s fundamentally about capturing studies that were never published, statements that were never made, possibilities that went unexplored and debates that never ended up happening.
Censorship often comes from scientists themselves (opinion)

Dec 5, 2023 | insidehighered.com | Musa al-Gharbi |Nicole Barbaro

December 05, 2023Censorship often comes from scientists themselves, driven by laudable motives, Musa al-Gharbi and Nicole Barbaro write. You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. nicolas_/Getty Images SignatureIn a new paper for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship in science. Measuring censorship in science is difficult.