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#146 - Lola Salem - You Can Win Every Election In The West But If The Whole Of Culture Is Against You Nothing Will Change

Dr Lola Salem is a musicologist, cultural critic, and Catholic convert. She is the author of the forthcoming Artless (Polity Press) and writes for The Critic and the Catholic Herald.In this conversation we think out loud about:• The boycott crisis in the arts and how it works in the shadows • Why the right keeps winning elections and losing the civilisation • The left as high-functioning alcoholics of culture • The post-cultural state — institutions remain, the spirit has left • The collapse of the managerial elite • The education pipeline that reproduces institutional capture • Whether the…

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