Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist "Innovation"
"Free markets drive innovation!" It's a narrative imparted to us ad nauseam. The ultimate catalyst of creation and progress — we're told by policymakers, business executives, think tanks, and the medi...
20 Mai 20201h 2min
Episode 109: Self-Help Culture and the Rise of Corporate Happiness Monitoring
How can one achieve happiness? It's the eternal question. From Aristotle to Al-Ghazali, Thomas Aquinas to Arthur Schopenhauer. The answer, we're told, is to look within. These days, we're told repeate...
6 Mai 20201h 4min
Episode 108: How GDP Fetishism Drives Climate Crisis and Inequality
"Economists' forecasts for GDP growth in 2020 vary widely," says The Economist. "Algeria's GDP growth falls to 0.8% in 2019," one Reuters headline reads. "GDP — the broadest measure of economic activi...
29 Apr 20201h 1min
Episode 107: Pop Torts and the Ready-Made Virality of 'Frivolous Lawsuit' Stories
"Woman Sues TripAdvisor After Falling off Runaway Camel," reports the Associated Press. "Red Bull Paying Out to Customers Who Thought Energy Drink Would Actually Give Them Wings," eyerolls Newsweek. "...
22 Apr 20201h 12min
Episode 106: The Sanitization of Sanctions
As COVID-19 continues to endanger the health of people throughout the world, it also magnifies a long-existent global humanitarian crisis: The use of sanctions by the United States and other powers as...
15 Apr 20201h 30min
News Brief: Widespread Indifference to Covid-19 in Prisons
In this extended News Brief, we discuss how the rapid increase of Covid-19 in prisons and jails is being met with indifference by lawmakers and US corporate media.
8 Apr 202059min
News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)
After over 100 episodes, scores of News Briefs, and almost three years of content production, Citations Needed has finally done it: reduced itself to a listicle. On this News Brief, we examine the top...
29 Mar 202042min
News Brief: As a Social Democracy Response Fails, Likelihood of Martial Response to Covid19 Rises
In this News Brief, we detail recent reports the National Guard and US military may be used in a law enforcement capacity and what this says about the failures of the liberal state. With unemployment ...
23 Mar 202027min
