130: Can We Stop Abusing Fat People? (w/Aubrey Gordon)
Well jeez. What can we say? We're totally honored to host and learn from Aubrey Gordon, author and co-host of Maintenance Phase. She gives us the rundown on anti-fat bias, its links to racism, the so...
24 Nov 20221h 12min
Bonus Sample: The Courage to Heal Pt. 2
Matthew and Julian sit down for the second of a two-part examination of the 1988 bestseller at the heart of the recovered memory movement. This is episode 10 of the Swan Song Series. Show NotesContro...
21 Nov 20229min
UNLOCKED: Michelle Remembers: Literal Symbols
The homestretch of our study of Michelle Remembers zeroes in on the literal symbols—and symbols gone literal—of the Satanic Panic. (This is episode 6 of the Swan Song Series.)Archetypes, gore, anxiet...
19 Nov 20221h 47min
129: White Christian Nationalism (w/Philip Gorski & Samuel Perry)
American-style white Christian Nationalism tells of a promised land given by God to the Puritan settlers. Their divine mandate for political dominance sanctifies a violent history that stretches from ...
17 Nov 20221h 42min
Bonus Sample: Kanye, Candace & The Christian Billionaires
Antisemitism is in the news again, as Candace Owens defends Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, while her boss, Ben Shapiro shakes his head in dismay. In this Bonus special report, Julian looks into the Asse...
14 Nov 20228min
128: The Trauma of Caste (w/Thenmozhi Soundararajan)
An ancient text at the root of the culture that gave birth to the yoga tradition says that if an outcaste person—a Dalit—dares to learn the holy language of Sanskrit, they must be tortured. Molten lea...
10 Nov 20221h 22min
Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 9 | Courage to Heal Pt. 1
Matthew and Julian sit down for the first of a two-part examination of the 1988 bestseller at the heart of the recovered memory movement—which played a central role in validating Satanic Panic testimo...
7 Nov 202210min
UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 5 | Michelle Remembers: Themes & Framing
In the second of three episodes on Michelle Remembers, we recap its Catholic contexts, and Lawrence Pazder's quest to transcend the limitations of psychiatry through mystical nightmares. We then explo...
5 Nov 20221h 36min
