Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist
When Gwen Stefani made a tacit endorsement of Tucker Carlson earlier this month, I felt like somebody had knocked the wind out of me. Had the iconic 90’s ain’t-no-hollaback girl made a not-so-sweet es...
21 Mar 20251h 22min
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes
To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of extremely online Tumblr user in the year 2012, she once approximated God. Today, we take a challenging l...
7 Mar 20251h 17min
The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right
Elon Musk just (allegedly) had his thirteenth child with a fourth woman — a 26-year-old “conservative” influencer named Ashley St. Clair. In a past version of the “traditional family values” party, th...
21 Feb 20251h 15min
How Conservatism Infiltrated Pop Culture
Quiet luxury. Clean girl. Old money. Trad living. Kylie Jenner’s pivot from Black culture vulture to glass skin pilates princess. College youth dressed like polyester Shein replicas of Reagan-era prep...
7 Feb 20251h 3min
The Tech Bro-ligarchy
Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so they launched a vendetta against humanity. Today, Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills helps us...
24 Jan 20251h 28min
Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect
The first episode of this podcast ever recorded was about Amber Heard and the online public’s inability — or unwillingness — to distinguish between their organic feelings about celebrity abuse allegat...
10 Jan 20251h 34min
Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?
The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and the mainstream media’s outward disdain for both Luigi and the public’s martyrization of him h...
19 Des 202457min
How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?
There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind virus — and it wasn’t that long ago. As recently as 2018, Elon was boasting about Tesla scoring a 100...
13 Des 20241h 23min
