191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)
The internet has changed not only how we communicate with each other, but how we understand the world. All technologies reorient how we navigate the world. This one just feels, at times, so disorienti...
1 Feb 202452min
Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care
Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...
29 Jan 20246min
Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists
Do people radicalized into conspiracism or cults ever admit their errors? When the prophecy fails and evidence shows they were wrong, do they come clean or double-down? Julian checks in on some of th...
27 Jan 202445min
190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)
Science evolves, often through fits and starts. Yet for most of medical history, there’s been one consistent theme: most science has been conducted on male bodies. And this has created a range of prob...
25 Jan 20241h 10min
Bonus Sample: Post-Catholic Music (w/Julia Tucker)
Julia Tucker is a professional church organist in Savannah, Georgia. She grew up homeschooled in a TradCath home presided over by a father who is now a minor celebrity on the reactionary right. In thi...
22 Jan 20246min
Brief: Being Muslim Amidst the Wars (w/Dr. Taslim Alani-Verjee)
Dr. Taslim Alani-Verjee joined us last January for a Brief on Jordan Peterson’s professional status as a shitposting registered psychologist. She returned for Episode 141 on whether it makes sense tha...
20 Jan 202446min
189: Leftists Who Turn Right (w/Jeff Sharlet)
Nothing will stop Republicans from lining up behind Trump. But the left? It's in crisis. Fragmented. Perhaps in times of great flux fascists reflexively double-down while progressives slide into a clo...
18 Jan 202457min
Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 6: Leonard Leo, Judicial Kingmaker
Control the Court. Overturn Roe. Funnel anonymous donations and shady gifts. Deregulate for Jesus. Roll back the cultural clock. Celebrate. Rinse and Repeat. Leonard Leo’s libertarian Catholic agenda...
15 Jan 20249min
