Vivek Ramaswamy is a New York Times bestselling author and a successful entrepreneur, who joins Krista on the podcast to discuss the importance of diversity of thought. A first-generation American, he has founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as a CEO and studied at Ivy League universities.
Now, in his latest book, Woke Inc., he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms, five-star conferences, university classrooms and more, to reveal the industrial complex that has divided us as a society.
In this episode, Vivek and Krista discuss how America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. Vivek not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda but also offers a way forward—exploring what it means to be an American today.
Another good measure of the health of a democracy is settling your disagreements through free speech and open debate rather than through the use of force. -Vivek Ramaswamy, Almost 30 Podcast
We also talk about:
- What makes a healthy democratic society
- The importance of diversity of thought
- Why society latches onto organizing principles
- The negative impacts of cancel culture and “wokeness”
- Racism in the United States today
- The hypocrisy of corporations
Resources:
- Twitter: @VivekGRamaswamy
- Facebook: Vivek Ramaswamy
- Instagram: vivekgramaswamy
- Book: Woke, Inc.
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This episode was fairly alarming – the guest insisted that racism in the US is driven by anti-racism and that people need to “get over it” because the civil rights movement achieved what it needed to. This is explicitly false and harmful. I fundamentally believe in principled disagreement but this episode is very much perpetuating harmful narratives created by the Right that are false and cause direct harm. Please consider unpacking this topic further and addressing the issue on a future episode.