E11: E11: Hannah Cox on the harm of woke capitalism, Ted Cruz's new confession & cronyism in Congress

Right Now with Stephen Kent

Does woke capitalism help or hurt a company's bottom line? Do we even have true capitalism or free markets anymore?
On "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Shoshana Weissmann and Hannah Cox of the Foundation for Economic Education for a discussion about woke capitalism, if it works, and if it's here to stay. Listen as they discuss how to identify if a brand's political standpoints are authentic or mere performance activism, why we need to chill out over the tech monopoly fearmongering, and how we can work to keep cronyism out of Congress.
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00:00​​​​​ Episode Start
00:04 How woke works
02:25 Meet rabid capitalist Hannah Cox
03:00 What is “woke capitalism” anyway?
07:30 Brand loyalty or tribalism
10:08 We’re all NASCAR drivers now
13:05 Performative corporate activism
18:32 Go woke or go broke? Nah
21:58 Republicans distancing from corporate America
28:05 Stephen sneaks in a Star Wars reference
32:48 Libertarians and corporate totalitarianism
35:06 Enough of the moral panic already
39:15 A trend or entrenched?
40:05 Positively!
---- Plugs for our guest ----
Follow Hannah Cox:
Articles for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE): https://fee.org/people/hannah-cox/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahCox7
Follow Shoshana Weissmann:
https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana