Fourth Reich Archaeology7 Feb 2025

#028 - Technofascism with Jacob Silverman

This week, we are thrilled to welcome a very special guest, journalist and author Jacob Silverman. Jacob’s writing focuses on the tech industry; particularly on the political activism of tech billionaires and their collective efforts to buy the U.S. government and instrumentalize it in support of their nefarious fascist worldview.

His forthcoming book, “Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley” could not be coming out at a more timely moment, and you can (and should!) preorder it here. You should also follow Jacob on Substack: https://substack.com/@jacobsilverman and on Twitter @SilvermanJacob. He has his finger on the pulse of the oft-confusing goings-on of the technofascist takeover and you’d be wise to track his analysis.

In our conversation, we talk about the current state of play a couple weeks into the Trump administration and zoom out to consider how we got here, what the historical precedents for the present moment are, and what we - the disgusted spectators watching it all unfold from the left - might do to prevent the technofascist dystopia from culminating its conquest of our lives.

The subject matter is grim, and we’ve tried to end on a light note with an Angleton’s Orchids original song to play us out.

We hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think at fourthreichpod@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @fourthreichpod, and, if you’re inclined to give us a hand in ramping up our operations, sign up as a Patron here.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(114)

#111 - Propaganda Madness 3, Side B

We are back with Side B of Propaganda Madness 3, our exploration into the Pentagon’s propagandist-in-chief, Sean Parnell. This week Don is joined by friend of the pod Matt Farwell who has quite the a...

28 Aug 1h 13min

#110 - Propaganda Madness, Part 3, Side A

This week’s episode focuses on the Pentagon’s propagandist-in-chief, Sean Parnell. Parnell is someone we suspect you may never have heard of, but we think, upon thorough examination, he perfectly enc...

21 Aug 37min

#109 - Contra Iran, Part 5

Well, it’s been almost 4 months since we’ve issued an episode in our Contra Iran series (not about Iran Contra), and yet it feels like there has been no real change in the status of the so-called “war...

14 Aug 1h 29min

#108 - The Anniversary Episode, Year Two

It's our birthday! Hooray for year two! And considering the monumental occasion, we decided it is time, yet again, for some R&R. This week, we shut off our lamps, hang up our hard hats, and take some ...

7 Aug 1h 49min

#107 - She Harvey Oswald, Part 9, Side B

We are back this week with Side B of our ninth installment of She Harvey Oswald. And as we laid out in Side A, from here on out our series-within-a-series on the two would-be female assassins who set ...

31 Jul 1h 9min

#106 - Red Scare 3.0

This week we’re back in the hellworld of 2026 where the US government has launched the greatest (if dumbest) crusade against communism in over half a century. We dig into the historical roots of the l...

24 Jul 1h 30min

#105 - She Harvey Oswald, Part 9, Side A

We are back this week with another installment of She Harvey Oswald. Buckle up friends, because from here on out our series-within-a-series on the two would-be female assassins who set their sites on ...

17 Jul 1h 12min

#104 - Having A Ball w/ Brother Isaac

This week, we take another hard turn into uncharted territory as we welcome Brother Isaac from the Coexist, Inc. Podcast to talk ball. Well, not exactly, but that is the through line in this episode, ...

10 Jul 1h 13min