Bonus Sample: A Theory of Motivation
We’ve spent the last three-and-a-half years criticizing a range of wellness ideas, charismatic charlatans, abusive self-styled gurus, and conspiracy theories. We’ve also discussed our own beliefs and ...
25 Sep 20234min
Brief: Russell Brand
In light of the recent allegations, Matthew offers a backgrounder on what we’ve learned about Brand through conspirituality and cultic studies and from his opportunistic relationships to wellness, sel...
23 Sep 202337min
172: Why Always the Jews? (w/Mike Rothschild)
Who could be a better guide through the fever dream of modern anti-semitism—the socialism of fools—than a scrappy young scion of the House of Rothschild? How has Mike, this mysterious insider—visible ...
21 Sep 202355min
Bonus Sample: You Can’t Just Take Things Away from People
When we deconstruct harmful ideas and beliefs—from antivax positions to reactionary social views—we will inevitably be seen or felt as attacking the relationships that people form through those views....
18 Sep 202310min
Brief: The Planet is Burning, Man (w/Tommy Diacono)
Burning Man 2023 will forever be burned in memory with two images: a group of climate activists blocking the single road into Black Rock City and the sea of mud that a climate change-induced hurricane...
16 Sep 202327min
171: Cracking the Mirror World (w/Naomi Klein)
Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a polymathic work that serves up new political heuristics with the firepower we’ve come to expect from the coiner of “disaster capitalism.” ...
14 Sep 20231h 20min
Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 2: Roger Stone
The Forrest Gump dandy of right-wing dirty tricks is in the news again. Strategizing from the Willard Hotel as January 6 unfolded; protected by a coterie of now convicted Oathkeepers; captured on vide...
11 Sep 202310min
Brief: Review of Naomi Klein’s "Doppelganger"
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is an exuberant, polymathic effort, in which Klein develops several new political heuristics that pack the punch we’ve come to expect from the originator of ...
9 Sep 202358min
