140. Menschinformation w/ Jacob Siegel
What secret quality is needed to survive the current onslaught of warring hyperrealities with your soul and sanity intact? Jacob Siegel, 9/11 veteran and author of The Information State: Politics in t...
27 Huhti 1h 59min
139. Open the Strait
Jukebox episode reviewing The Drama by Kristoffer Borgli and the Iran War by Donald J. Trump. This episode is for patrons only. To listen, subscribe to the show at patreon.com/fitlhyarmenian
16 Huhti 4min
138. Witness
Personally selected passages from Witness, Whittaker Chambers's deeply emotional memoir about testifying to -- and against -- the ideology that dare not speak its name. For twice the adventures, inc...
30 Maalis 1h 44min
137. The Red Scare w/ Jack Mason & Ben Braddock
On the falsification of history known as the Red Scare -- as revealed in Leslie Fiedler's tremendous essays on the Hiss-Chambers trial, the Rosenbergs, and Joseph McCarthy in An End to Innocence (1955...
18 Maalis 1h 14min
136. The Miracle of Preston Sturges
David Mamet called his films "irrefutable proof of the afterlife." I call him the poet laureate of American capitalism. Matthew Wilder joins me to investigate the secret sauce of the comic genius who ...
10 Maalis 1h 2min
135. The Merchant of Memory
What can Hollywood (and the haunted souls who still occupy it) learn from another picture-based entertainment industry that once was dead, but is now reborn? I probe my personal history and tragedies ...
23 Helmi 45min
134. Evil Sports Cards
Since their "indescribably fiendish" origins in the Civil War, picture cards taught American boys how to smoke/chew/trade/lust/worship/collect/invest/gamble/deal with Japs... and of course how to reme...
17 Helmi 1h 24min
133. Palisades Lost III: Paul Revere's Ride
Caressed by Sunset Boulevard, at the flammable foot of Mandeville Canyon, lies a middle school named Paul Revere -- where the fate of a man (and a nation) was riding that night... Palisades Lost Part ...
5 Helmi 1h 44min
