#212: Good and Angry
According to the prevailing logic, America has an anger management problem: it\u2019s counterproductive, destructive, and, unchecked, might lead you to storm the Capitol. But not all anger is made equal, and perhaps the best way to master its uses and abuses is to understand its differences. In her new book, The Case for Rage, University of California philosophy professor Myisha Cherry contends that this misunderstood emotion\u2014wielded successfully in the past by figures like Audre Lorde, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ida B. Wells\u2014can fuel today\u2019s fight against racism. Cherry joins us on the podcast to discuss how to cultivate the kind of rage we need to make a better world.
Go beyond the episode:
- Myisha Cherry\u2019s The Case for Rage (read an excerpt here)
- Read Audre Lorde\u2019s seminal essay, \u201cThe Uses of Anger,\u201d which inspired Cherry\u2019s coining of the term Lordean rage
- Listen to our interview with Pankaj Mishra about the ressentiment that fuels our Age of Anger
- Down with the Stoics, up with Epicureanism!
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