It’s a little hard to believe, because it’s been nearly three and a half years since it was announced, but We Have Never Been Woke will be available for everyone to read in less than one month!
I’ve got my hands on a physical copy, and it’s truly a thing of beauty. Hats off to the excellent PUP team (click to zoom).
If you haven’t already, preorder a copy today so you can read/ listen on the day of release (October 8!).
Right or wrong, preorders and Week One sales matter a ton for how a book is received, the coverage it gets, and the impact it ultimately has. So, if you think you may want to read the book, please consider reserving your copy right now. Every sale helps!
- Hardcover editions are available for preorder on Bookshop.org, Thriftbooks, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and through most other major retailers. You can also pick up a copy directly from the publisher via the Princeton University Press website.
- E-book versions are available for preorder on Kobo, Google Play, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
- Audiobook listeners can preorder their copy, narrated by yours truly, through Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Audible, Google Play, Kobo and Libro.fm.
- Readers outside the U.S. can snag a copy via Blackwell’s, with free international shipping.
More about the book is available here.
Tour Information
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be touring to talk about the book and its themes around the U.S. For the month of October, I’m almost fully booked up. My November is starting to fill up as well. Information for currently confirmed stops is available here.
Strikingly, although the book is about symbolic economy professionals and the institutions and communities they inhabit — there are several symbolic economy hubs where I don’t yet have dates scheduled, including Atlanta, Boston, Florida, Dallas, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Miami, Boulder, Minneapolis, the D.C. metro area, and the North Carolina “research triangle.” Let’s change this!
If you would like to have me out to speak at your campus or organization, reach out to my booking agent Akhil Jonnalagadda (Akhil_Jonnalagadda@press.princeton.edu) ASAP.
Folks outside the U.S. who are interested in hosting me should also get in touch with Akhil to make arrangements for the second tour, which will be tied to the international book launch in January 2025.
Media Circuit
I’ve been doing lots of media interviews and podcasts over the past few weeks, which should be coming out contemporaneous with the book launch. My goal is to speak to as many folks as possible, but my dance card is also filling up rapidly.
If you’re a
- Journalist interested in writing about me or the book or doing an interview,
- An editor interested in writing and excerpt or soliciting an original essay,
- An academic interested in reviewing the book for a major disciplinary journal
Please reach out to the book’s publicist, Megan Posco (megan@poscopublicity.com) as soon as possible. Ideally, we’d do as many interviews as possible before the tour gets underway because I won’t have the same access to a studio while I’m travelling.
In Case You Missed It
To whet your appetite in anticipation of the launch, a selection of media hits, interviews, essays and talks that are currently available follows below. Peruse to your heart’s content!
Advance Praise
Reviews
- Washington Post
- The Atlantic
- Library Journal
- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
- The Guardian
- Wall Street Journal
- UnHerd
- Washington Examiner
- City Journal
- Christianity Today
- Real Clear Books
- Sublation Magazine
- El Heraldo de Mexico
- Front Porch Republic
- Law & Liberty
- National Review
- Russell Kirk Center
- Quillette
- The Arts Fuse
- Public Discourse
- Washington Free Beacon
- Institute for Family Studies
Substack Essays
- A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives
- Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier
- Critics Respond to We Have Never Been Woke
- Meet the Symbolic Capitalists
- Introduction to the Symbolic Economy
- The Symbolic Professions Are Super WEIRD
- Video Games Have Never Been Woke
External Essays
- How Elite Competition Turns Into a Culture War (Hypertext)
- The Contradictions of a New Elite (Deseret Magazine)
- The New Elite Aren’t Woke (Cap X)
- The University Has Never Been Woke (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Interviews
- New Statesman
- New York Post
- Herald/ Review Media (my hometown newspaper!)
Podcasts
- The Economist
- Contexts (American Sociological Association)
- The Good Fight
- The Hope Axis
- No Small Endeavor
- Heterodox Academy
- Wisdom of Crowds
- The Gray Area (Vox)
- The Ink
- The Reason Podcast
- Blame Theory
- The Dishcast
- Blocked and Reported
- Free Black Thought
- Converging Dialogues
- The Liberal Patriot
- Interfaith America
- Niskanen
- The Gist
- Quillette
- Conversations With Tyler
- Temple of Sociology
- Free Mind Podcast
- Lean Out
- Invisible Men
- This is Hell
- In Conversation
- Pluralist Points
- Parallax Views
- New Books Network
- What Could Go Right
Public Talks
- House of SpeakEasy
- Northeastern Illinois University
- UNE Center for Global Humanities
- Heterodox Academy Conference 2024 (w/ Jon Haidt)
- Politics & Prose (w/ Shadi Hamid)
- Stony Brook University (w/ Colleen Eren)
- Ohio University Menard Family George Washington Forum
- InterIntellect Festival: Ideas of Power
And if you haven’t already, please do consider preordering the book ASAP!