Is Wokeness a Status Flex? with Musa al-Gharbi

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Musa Al-Gharbi on Wednesday, January 21 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET. How did a new class of cultural elites rise to shape our institutions, and what contradictions define their power today? In We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, Musa al-Gharbi examines the history and political economy of the symbolic professions from the interwar period through the present, tracing how journalists, academics, activists, and knowledge-sector professionals came to wield outsized cultural influence. A sociologist and associate professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University, Al-Ghabri brings a rigorous, data-driven approach to understanding today’s ideological battles. He is also a prolific writer of many articles, including those posted to his Substack, Symbolic Capital(ism). Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.