Edward Said

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Edward Said has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Sep 2025). Mentioned as part of Shapiro’s discussion of intellectual roots of anti-Western/anti-colonial critique within academia.

Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian and American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researcher