Blake Smith on The Woke Meritocracy

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Blake Smith to discuss his recent essay in Tablet magazine. Blake Smith, a contributing writer at Tablet, is a Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he works on cultural ties between France and India. He has written articles for journals such as History of European Ideas and History of the Economic and Social History of the Orient as well as popular media such as The Wire and The Appendix. He has served as a teaching assistant at Northwestern University for a number of early modern history courses focusing on Old Regime France, Mughal South Asia, Tudor and Stewart Britain, and Habsburg Spain.