Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights
Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In this episode they explore the gender politics of th...
3 Maalis 1h 6min
Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files
One of the men whose presence in the Epstein Files has been making a lot of news is Bard College's forever president Leon Botstein. While there is no suggestion that Botstein participated in any of Ep...
28 Helmi 32min
Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what ...
17 Helmi 39min
Episode 121 -- Moira's in the Epstein Files
The Epstein files are many things: a study in elite impunity, a deep core sample of societal misogyny, a record of institutional failure. But they also give us a fascinating, if terrifying, alternate ...
10 Helmi 1h 7min
Episode 120 -- The Murder of Alex Pretti
On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection ...
3 Helmi 42min
Episode 118 -- The Romantasy Boom
For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Abby Kluchin from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast to discuss a recent publishing phenomenon and its implications for gender politics: romantasy, a gen...
27 Tammi 1h 11min
Episode 117 -- Birth Control Misinformation
For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the conservative attack on birth control, and in particular the influencer-led, MAHA-adjacent surge of misinformation about menstruation and birth control...
21 Tammi 59min
Episode 116 -- A Murder in Minneapolis
On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a killing that was captured by multiple camera phones and witnessed by dozens. Since the killin...
11 Tammi 52min
