I miss Michael Brooks so much

Matt Lech and David Griscom have done their best to carry on in Brooks's niche, but Michael really had a unique blend of personality, knowledge and media savvy that nobody I've seen has replicated. He had a perfect understanding of "Overton window" respectability media sensibility while also being funny and scathing towards reactionary shitheads and expounding on some real materialist history and not folding to typical western anti-socialist kneejerk bullshit.

If anyone isn't familiar with his work, I'd strongly recommend going back through The Michael Brooks Show on YouTube. Imagine a mid-2010s internet version of The Daily Show or Last Week Tonight with segments with interesting journalists and authors with some solid bonafides where the host has unapologetically socialist politics and doesn't pull his punches while also being funny and charming and a talented interviewer. It always had a really great mood to the show. A lot of it probably feels dated from covering then-current events, but the fact that he's missed by everyone from Majority Report libs to Chapo guys that guested in his show to Revolutionary Left Radio says a lot I think.