Episode 120: 30 Under 30 Lists and the Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed 'Success' Narratives
Every year, a series of highly anticipated listicles of "successful" and "influential" people hailed for their accomplishments surface in corporate media. Forbes reveals the most successful 30 people ...
30 Sep 20201h 14min
Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music
By now, it's largely taken for granted that country music is a racialized signifier, interchangeable with right-wing politics. And it's not such an unreasonable generalization: the political currents ...
23 Sep 20201h 39min
Episode 118: The Snitch Economy: How Rating Apps and Tipping Pit Working People Against Each Other
Waiting tables. Bartending. Hospitality, food delivery, beauty salons, rideshare driving. The service industry, as anyone who has worked in it knows all too well, is notorious for relying on tipping t...
16 Sep 20201h 6min
Episode 117: The Always 'Lagging' U.S. War Machine
"U.S. military tactics falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns," The Guardian proclaims. "Russian Propaganda Is Pervasive, and America Is Behind the Power Curve in Countering It,"...
9 Sep 20201h 29min
News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment
One point brought up in Episode 116, highlighting the connection between real estate interests and over-policing, solicited a lot of feedback from listeners. In this News Brief, we wanted to expand up...
11 Aug 202029min
Episode 116: The Pro-Gentrification Aspirationalism of HGTV's House-Flipping Shows
The popularity of HGTV house-flipping TV shows can't be overstated: In the second week of July, HGTV was the fourth highest rated cable network, behind only Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, making it the high...
29 Jul 20201h 24min
Episode 115: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part III) - How the Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking
For over a hundred years, the American film industry has been promoting and glorifying U.S. foreign policy, initially working with the military and Department of Defense, and eventually, the CIA as we...
22 Jul 20201h 12min
Episode 114: Anti-Muslim Racism in Hollywood (Part II) - Oscar-Bait Imperialism
Our cultural context for understanding what we see on the news and hear in our politics, is often informed by the films and TV shows we've grown up watching. Pop culture is powerful and persuasive, an...
15 Jul 20201h 31min
