Michael J. Brooks

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Michael Jamal Brooks (born August 13, 1983 - July 20, 2020 ) was an American political journalist , presenter , satirist and author . He has worked as a producer and later as a co-host for The Majority Report with Sam Seder since 2012 and founded his own media platform, The Michael Brooks Show , in 2017 . There he interviewed numerous well-known political figures on the left, including Noam Chomsky , Cornel West and Slavoj Zizek . He described himself as a democratic socialist.

Life

Brooks was born in New York and raised in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

In 2012 Brooks started working for the political talk radio show and podcast The Majority Report with Sam Seder .

In 2020 Brooks published Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right . In this, Brooks dealt with the Intellectual Dark Web , a loose group of conservative and liberal thinkers and media figures, including Sam Harris , Jordan Peterson and Eric Weinstein , and discussed possibilities for progressive movements with this phenomenon and intellectual traditions from which this emerged to deal with.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/_michaelbrooks/status/896734802849796096. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Brooks on Instagram: “Birthday vibe appreciating family. #love @originalbodywisdom @lishasbrooks ”. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Allison Morrow, CNN Business: Michael Brooks, political commentator and podcast host, dies at 36. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Remembering Our Friend and Comrade Michael Brooks. Retrieved August 8, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Political commentator Michael Brooks forged his own path, friends say. July 24, 2020, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ StackPath. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brooks, Michael J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooks, Michael Jamal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political journalist, presenter, satirist, and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1983
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2020