Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich

Published: May 19, 2022, 7:50 p.m.

b'Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era ideas of progress and Western civilization collapsed time and space around the bumbling, destructive European ideology of early capitalism, and why those ideas still mis-guide the bumbling, destructive European ideology of late capitalism on a dying planet.\\n\\nhttps://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich'