Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," t...
13 Apr 202247min
Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples
"It is safe to say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums," wrote New York City official Robert Moses in 1945. "Our ancestors came across the ocean in sailing ships you wouldn't go across a lake ...
6 Apr 20221h 13min
News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell Criminalizing Homelessness
In this News Brief, we examine the convoluted, vague rhetorical labor involved in making purging unhoused populations with cops seem humane and anodyne.
30 Mars 202228min
News Brief: 5 Worst US Media Reactions to Russia's Ukraine Invasion
In this public News Brief, we examine the most unhelpful, glib, self-aggrandizing, and cynical responses from American media to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
16 Mars 202236min
Episode 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues
"Let the Culture Wars Begin. Again," The New York Times announces. "How the 'Culture War' Could Break Democracy," warns Politico. "As The Culture Wars Shift, President Trump Struggles To Adapt," NPR t...
9 Mars 20221h 26min
Episode 156: How the "Investigative Journalism" Aesthetic Can Be Used to Launder Power-Serving Narratives
"Investigative journalism." It's a term that conjures imagery of committed, industrious newsrooms like those in the Oscar-winning films All the President's Men or Spotlight, filled with intrepid repor...
2 Mars 20221h 6min
Episode 155: How the American Settler-Colonial Project Shaped Popular Notions of 'Conservation'
"Among these central ranges of continental mountains and these great companion parks…lies the pleasure-ground and health-home of the nation," wrote journalist Samuel Bowles in 1869. "Mountain parks an...
23 Feb 20221h 29min
News Brief: "Biden Crack Pipes": Anatomy of a Manufactured GOP Outrage––and Democratic Capitulation
In this News Brief, we are joined by friend of the show Zachary A. Siegel to discuss the extremely effective, extremely racist rightwing outrage over drug kits and how the Democrats refusing to defend...
10 Feb 202228min
