UNLOCK 42.1 Friendship (is not easy)
An excerpt from the audiobook of Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times — Chapter Eight, Friendship Is Not Easy. I'm putting this out as a companion to my interview w...
9 Elo 43min
42. Keep the Little Flame Alive w/ Carsie Blanton
I sit down with socialist singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton to explore how unstructured freedom — from schooling, the music industry, and institutional religion — became the soil for her political and ...
29 Heinä 1h 1min
UNLOCK 40.1 Episodic and Thematic Thinking and Feeling
Picking up a on thread from my interview with Nora Loreto interview: a coda on the tension between zooming in on the daily news cycle and zooming out to a coherent analytical framework. I draw on Shan...
26 Heinä 19min
41. The Anti-Vance Would Like a Word w/ Nathan Evans Fox
JD Vance's Communion presents itself as a spiritual memoir but functions as a rebranding operation: It's the same narcissistic trick he played with Hillbilly Elegy. Who better to sit down with to sort...
22 Heinä 52min
UNLOCK 39.1 Epistemic Injustice
Years ago, I failed to understand my autistic son's needs. Instead of fully taking in his distress at school, I projected my own story, values, and experience on him. He'll manage. He'll get used to i...
19 Heinä 21min
40: We Live on This Planet to Do Good Work w/ Nora Loreto
Today I sit down with Nora Loreto, a Quebec City-based journalist and labour organizer, to discuss her five-volume Canada in Decline series — a forensic history of the dismantling of Canada's social d...
15 Heinä 1h 8min
UNLOCK 38.1 Gramsci’s Wars of Position, Wars of Maneuver
Antonio Gramsci, writing in a fascist prison in the early 1930s, distinguished between wars of position—the slow struggle over culture, values, and consent—and wars of maneuver, or direct confrontatio...
12 Heinä 33min
