UNLOCKED: Michelle Remembers: Literal Symbols
The homestretch of our study of Michelle Remembers zeroes in on the literal symbols—and symbols gone literal—of the Satanic Panic. (This is episode 6 of the Swan Song Series.)Archetypes, gore, anxiet...
19 Nov 20221h 47min
129: White Christian Nationalism (w/Philip Gorski & Samuel Perry)
American-style white Christian Nationalism tells of a promised land given by God to the Puritan settlers. Their divine mandate for political dominance sanctifies a violent history that stretches from ...
17 Nov 20221h 42min
Bonus Sample: Kanye, Candace & The Christian Billionaires
Antisemitism is in the news again, as Candace Owens defends Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, while her boss, Ben Shapiro shakes his head in dismay. In this Bonus special report, Julian looks into the Asse...
14 Nov 20228min
128: The Trauma of Caste (w/Thenmozhi Soundararajan)
An ancient text at the root of the culture that gave birth to the yoga tradition says that if an outcaste person—a Dalit—dares to learn the holy language of Sanskrit, they must be tortured. Molten lea...
10 Nov 20221h 22min
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 9 | Courage to Heal Pt. 1
Matthew and Julian sit down for the first of a two-part examination of the 1988 bestseller at the heart of the recovered memory movement—which played a central role in validating Satanic Panic testimo...
7 Nov 202210min
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 5 | Michelle Remembers: Themes & Framing
In the second of three episodes on Michelle Remembers, we recap its Catholic contexts, and Lawrence Pazder's quest to transcend the limitations of psychiatry through mystical nightmares. We then explo...
5 Nov 20221h 36min
127: Doing Good in Impossibly Bad Times (w/Rebecca Carter-Chand, Mark Roseman & Peter Staudenmaier)
Mark Roseman opens Lives Reclaimed, his compelling history of the “Bund”—a leftist communitarian group that resisted fascism and protected Jews during the Reich—with a quote from Michael Ondaatje’s no...
3 Nov 20222h 3min
Bonus Sample: Shurka Tank
Imagine a technology so powerful it's been directly downloaded from spirit during a Scorpio eclipse. This revolutionary tool can cure burn victims, remove cysts from dogs, and endow you with ultimate ...
31 Okt 20227min
