Michael Brooks | |
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Born | Michael Jamal Brooks August 13, 1983[1] |
Died | July 20, 2020 | (aged 36)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Bates College |
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Years active | 2011–2020 |
Notable work | Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right (2020) |
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Years active | 2018–2020 |
Genre(s) | Politics, opinion, comedy |
Subscribers | 141,000[2] |
Total views | 30,129,394[2] |
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Last updated: December 12, 2022 |
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Michael Jamal Brooks (August 13, 1983 – July 20, 2020) was an American talk show host, writer, left-wing political commentator, and comedian.[3] While co-hosting The Majority Report with Sam Seder, he launched The Michael Brooks Show in August 2017 and provided commentary for media outlets, making regular appearances on shows such as The Young Turks. Brooks contributed to various publications, including HuffPost, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, and Jacobin.[4][5] His book Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right was published by Zero Books in April 2020.[6][7]
Brooks was a self-identified progressive, internationalist, democratic socialist, and Marxist humanist.[8] He commented extensively on US foreign policy, the Middle East, Latin America, capitalism, and the intellectual dark web.
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