Alex Pareene & Astra Taylor on student loan forgiveness – MR Live | 8/26/22

The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Streamed live 12 hours ago Fun Half Link: https://youtu.be/RosE0Cd8Cpw Emma hosts Alex Pareene, Contributing Editor at the New Republic and proprietor of the AP newsletter on Substack, to round up the week in news. Then, Emma is joined by Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective and author of the recent book Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, to discuss Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.

Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions

Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions

by Astra Taylor

An incisive collection of essays from an author who is consistently ahead of the curve.

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe, and more. Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens.

Curious and searching, these historically informed and hopeful essays are as engaging as they are challenging and as urgent as they are timeless. Taylor ‘s unique philosophical style has a political edge that speaks directly to the growing conviction that a radical transformation of our economy and society is required.

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