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 Aug 43min
UNLOCK: 41.1 The Anti-Vance Would Like a Word Pt 2 w/ Nathan Evans Fox
Part 2 of my convo with Nathan Evans Fox, going deeper into the psychological and theological architecture of what JD Vance is actually doing in his new memoir, and what it costs him and everyone else...
2 Aug 45min
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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 33min
