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
Brief: Fascia Facts vs Fictions (w/David Lesondak)
The online pseudoscience clearing house, Human Garage, treats fascia as a cure-all to nearly every disease imaginable. Yet as today's guest, David Lesondak, Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Spe...
13 Jan 202435min
188: Everybody Wants to Save the Children (feat Esme Providence Brown)
What happens when white knights role-play at saving all the children? What impacts do they have on the actual realities faced by trafficked children and adults? And how does their propaganda—rolled ou...
11 Jan 20241h 29min
Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo Wants America to Return to 1776
Rightwing activist Chris Rufo recently led the charge in helping oust Claudine Gay from the Harvard presidency. While the charge is plagiarism—a charge Gay herself acknowledged—the reason for Rufo’s i...
8 Jan 20246min
