Extremely Offline

Why is the left starting to act more like the right? To answer that question, The Backchannel is joined by two of the country's most prominent left-of-center writers: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi and The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald. The five of us discuss how puritanical attitudes have become so prominent on the progressive left.If you enjoy our show, please help us to keep making it! Contribute via our Patreon: http://patreon.com/thebackchannelFurther reading:• Matt Taibbi on the left becoming the right: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-left-is-now-the-right• Matt Taibbi on "cancel culture": https://taibbi.substack.com/p/if-its-not-cancel-culture-what-kind• Matt Taibbi on "White Fragility": https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility• Matt Taibbi on the media: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself• Glenn Greenwald on "cancel culture": https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/cancel-culture-martina-navratilova-documentary/• Leighton Wood