Against the Web, Michael Brooks
Against the Web, Michael Brooks
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Against the Web
A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

Author: Michael Brooks

Narrator: Sam Seder

Unabridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/13/2023

Synopsis

Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web."

As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analysis of the "conservative rebels" who had taken YouTube by storm in 2018.
Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent "renegades," including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, and Brett Weinstein while also examining the social, political, and media environment that such rebels thrive in.

About Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks was the host of the Michael Brooks Show and contributing host for the four-time award-winning independent political talk show The Majority Report. He was also briefly the cohost, along with Anna Kasparian, on a new YouTube show for Jacobin Magazine entitled Weekends. His writing appeared in Al Monitor, Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, among other publications. Upon Brooks's passing the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, expressed his condolences: "May his passion for social justice be remembered and inspire people around the world."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ray on May 27, 2020

Full disclosure: I am a big fan of The Majority Report podcast. Watching their video clips online has become a daily habit of mine for keeping up with the political world, especially during these tense last few years. Co-host Michael Brooks (who also hosts his own solo The Michael Brooks Show) alway......more

Goodreads review by Captain on August 19, 2020

As a generally-speaking fan of some of the "IDW" stable such as Sam Harris, I thought it would be worthwhile to get out of my comfort zone and read a critique of some of these ideas. Having enjoyed Michael Brook's Rubin decimations on Youtube, I thought this would be worth a look, particularly given......more

Goodreads review by JL on July 21, 2020

July 21st 2020 update: This morning I awoke to the news that Michael Brooks had died suddenly last night. It’s been almost 24 hours since the news first broke and I still have few words to truly convey the depth of sadness and shock I and so many others are feeling right now. Michael was an ever gro......more

Goodreads review by Dan on July 06, 2020

I have to say I was, and still am, very unfamiliar with Michael Brooks as a person or social-media figure. I don't watch his Youtube show and I found this book having been recommended it via Goodreads. However the subject is a very interesting one and one that the left seems to really be ignoring, t......more

Goodreads review by Sina on July 23, 2020

RIP Michael Brooks (1983 - 2020). This book, at its core, is an attempt to critique and provide an alternative to a clique of reactionary - and mostly online - figures dubbed "The Intellectual Dark Web" by the then-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss. For the most part, I find myself in agreement wi......more

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