Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (Half the Answer #97, with A. J. A. Woods)

Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s?

Caitlin M. Green, Trent R. Nelson, A. J. A. Woods Aug 10, 2026

Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (Half the Answer #97, with A. J. A. Woods)

Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s? Why are they hellbent on rooting out discussion of progressive ideas from the public sphere? What did Theodor Adorno have to do with the release of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"? And does the notion of "Cultural Marxism" imply the existence of seminal thinker Cultural Marx? Caitlin and Trent talk to A. J. A. Woods, author of The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, about all these questions but the last one.

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Resources

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: https://bookshop.org/a/115699/9781804296967

⁠https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-ever-shifting-cultural-marxism/⁠

⁠https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/do-we-all-live-on-campus-now/⁠

⁠https://www.thefp.com/p/honestly-rufo-mounk-debate-dei⁠

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Published in: Half the Answer, Podcast

Authors

Caitlin Green is a linguist specializing in Discourse Studies and Pragmatics. She lives in California with her husband, two daughters, and a very small black cat.

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Trent R. Nelson is a poet, historian, and philosopher, as well as a political and socioeconomic analyst. He is the managing editor for MWF Springfield and a contributing editor with Liberal Currents.

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A. J. A. Woods is an intellectual historian who lives in Brighton, England.

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