Category: Headliners
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Musa al-Gharbi on Elites, “Awokenings,” and the Limits of Symbolic Politics
Read more: Musa al-Gharbi on Elites, “Awokenings,” and the Limits of Symbolic PoliticsThe Center hosted its first headliner event on November 12, 2025, featuring sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He is the author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite (Princeton University Press, 2024), a book that examines the relationship between contemporary elite culture, symbolic…