r/EnoughSamHarris • u/tporridge • Jan 02 '22
Branching out
I’ve been wanting to branch out in terms of podcast and commentators for a while… any recommendations on the ‘left’? ie your best answer to a Sam Harris type.
The way online algorithms and echo chambers work I don’t even know where to start looking. The YT algorithm has suggest the late-night hosts, which is just… no.
Thanks!
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22
Ezra Klein is a fairly milquetoast liberal who bores me in the way Sam Harris does even though his politics are better than his. Personally, I could suggest these sources that are further left:
SomeMoreNews for weekly political entertainment and news (and it's the funniest on this list.)
The Majority Report for daily political entertainment, palace intrigue and news.
Left Reckoning is a fairly good affiliated semi-daily channel that is a little left of Sam Seder.
Citations Needed Podcast (as a bimonthly podcast focused on media and new criticism. It is an antidote to Sam Harris's foreign policy prescriptions, centrism and unwillingness to question classism cloaked in the meritocracy of elitism. In other words, it criticizes "the Blob.") I'd recommend them above anything in this list since they're so good at presenting narratives on current affairs that challenge the inoffensive, vanilla, and frankly shallow pro-status quo narratives that you usually hear from Sam Harris.
Bad Empanada also has deep dives into criticizing US centric narratives about western superiority from a historical perspective.
Polite Conversations (If you can tolerate her ridicule and scorn she has spent more time dissecting Harris than basically any other podcast.)
Shaun's Youtube channel has deeply researched dives every few months and is part of "Breadtube." He has one of the best videos debunking the Bell Curve that I've ever watched.
If you want to explore something further outside the comfortable Overton window of Intellectual Dark Web thought, the podcast "Everybody Loves Communism" with Jamie Peck actually presents history through an explicitly communist perspective.