The Paranoid Style of David Samuels
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, David Klion and Matt Duss on a popular right-wing fabulist.Has former president Barack Obama secretly been running the American elite — including the media and...
4 Jan 202545min
Matthew Yglesias and the Problems of Popularism
Matthew Yglesias, a very influential journalist and proprietor of the Slow Boring substack, has emerged as a divisive figure within the Democratic party. To admirers, he’s a compelling advocate of pop...
8 Des 20241h 6min
Factchecking Won’t Save Democracy
For this week’s podcast, I’m posting a talk I gave at Carleton University earlier this month on how the crisis of democracy is related to the crisis of journalism. In the talk, I argue that we are liv...
1 Des 202438min
Don’t Believe the Election Myths
The one good thing about defeat is you can learn some lessons. But what if the lessons you learn are the wrong ones. In the wake of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, pundits and Democrat...
24 Nov 202442min
The Dangers of Trump’s Cynical Anti-War Message w/ Matt Duss
Donald Trump and JD Vance have a surprising closing message in the 2024 election: they are the antiwar candidate. About the rising conflict in the Middle East, Trump has said, “I wanna see it all stop...
3 Nov 202431min
The Making of Donald Trump w/ David Klion
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by David Klion to discuss 'The Apprentice' — a movie about Roy Cohn’s mentoring of a future president.---Donald Trump is such a clearly def...
27 Okt 202442min
Trump’s Bobbing and Dancing Disaster
As the presidential election comes down to the wire, it’s hard to ignore evidence of Donald Trump is increasingly erratic behavior: his slurring of words, his freezing up during questions, his repeate...
20 Okt 202435min
Francis Ford Coppola’s Contentious Utopia w/ Kate Wagner
More than forty years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is the most divisive movie of our time. Some critics have hailed it as a major work while others dismiss it as a stinker. The fi...
13 Okt 202451min
