Book · 2024 · Social Science
The Message
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It's captured in a more aidite way in tanasi coat's recent book the message and it's something that people young people are being educated to in our most elite schools.
What they say about it
- Discusses Israel and Gaza“take on the topic of Israel”2
- Educated in elite schools“educated to in our most elite schools”2
The best things said about it
It's captured in a more erudite way in Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent book The Message and it's something that people young people are being educated to in our most elite schools.
This book has been criticized for not being a whole picture.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 2024 So he wrote this book he decided to meander over into the Israeli Palestinian conflict because what we really needed was his take you'll be shocked to learn he reduced it to skin color.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Oct 2024 Today is the publication day of Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, The Message, which is based on a 10-day trip that he took to what he calls Palestine.
Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a book of essays reflecting on politics, storytelling, and the author's travels, including controversial commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The publication attracted extensive discussion and critique across several podcasts. Glenn Loury discussed the book and its structural chapters on politics on The Tucker Carlson Show. Bari Weiss referenced the text on Honestly with Bari Weiss while analyzing prevailing political narratives and ideologies taught to young people in elite educational institutions. On The Ezra Klein Show, Ezra Klein noted that the book faced criticism for presenting an incomplete picture of the region, while Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed a specific travel experience involving a guard dog that he documented in the text. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly featured the book on The Megyn Kelly Show to deliver sharp critiques regarding Coates's perspective on the Middle East, arguing that he reduced a complex geopolitical conflict to skin color. During a related interview segment, Tony Dokoupil similarly questioned Coates on the absence of Palestinian agency within his narrative and expressed his struggles with the author's portrayal of a Jewish state.
Every mention
Bari Weiss it's captured in a more aidite way in tanasi coat's recent book the message and it's something that people… 3
“it's captured in a more aidite way in tanasi coat's recent book the message and it's something that people young people are being educated to in our most elite schools”
“it's captured in a more erudite way in Ta-Nehisi Coates' recent book The Message and it's something that people young people are being educated to in our most elite schools”
“And now you have, by the way, at the same moment that we're sitting here, I think today is the publication day of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Coates' new book, The Message, which is based on a 10-day trip that he took to what he calls Palestine.”
Megyn Kelly so he wrote this book he decided to meander over into the Israeli Palestinian conflict because what we real… 2
“so he wrote this book he decided to meander over into the Israeli Palestinian conflict because what we really needed was his take you'll be shocked to learn he reduced it to skin color”
“so he's got a lot of knowledge about this region and has standing if you will to object to the one-sided nature of coats's book and was totally within the bounds of Reason”
Ezra Klein this book has been criticized for not being a whole picture 1
“this book has been criticized for not being a whole picture”
Glenn Loury The black American writer Tanahasi Coats `` came out with a book called The Message `` in which he describe… 1
“The black American writer Tanahasi Coats `` came out with a book called The Message `` in which he describes writing about politics and there are several chapters.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates and we're going through one of the settlements and we're looking out and I see a guard dog like really real… 1
“and we're going through one of the settlements and we're looking out and I see a guard dog like really really aggressively you know yapping”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker2
“it's what I struggled with throughout this book what is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state”
“why is there no agency in this book for the Palestinians they they exist in your narrative merely as victims of the Israelis”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“coats's new book the message he writes of a trip he took to Israel and the West Bank in May of 2023”
“tanasi coats has a new book coming out called the message”