Lessons for Today's Movements from the Radical "Young Lords" (w/ Johanna Fernández)
Johanna Fernández is a historian of social movements who is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History, a deeply researched history of one of the most vibrant and fascinating social movements of...
27 Nov 202352min
How Right-Wing Propaganda Gives People "Brain Worms" (w/ Adam Glenn)
Adam Glenn is a Current Affairs reader who has produced a free online book called Brain Worms: How Right-Wing Propaganda Destroys Reason, Conscience, and Democracy. Today he joins to discuss how (and ...
24 Nov 202341min
Banishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart)
Alissa Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the author of the new book Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream. Her book looks at the cruel...
22 Nov 202337min
How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)
R.S. Benedict is a speculative fiction writer whose popular 2021 essay "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny," published in Blood Knife, argued that the disappearance of sex from movies is linked...
20 Nov 202344min
How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)
Khaled Beydoun is a professor of law at Wayne State and the author of two books, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War o...
17 Nov 202346min
Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)
Émile P. Torres is an intellectual historian who has recently become a prominent public critic of the ideologies of "effective altruism" and "longtermism," each of which is highly influential in Silic...
15 Nov 202355min
How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of the school's Center for Environmental and Animal Pr...
13 Nov 202342min
How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)
Van Jackson is a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals, a harsh critic of the infamous "Blob." His Un-Diplomatic newsletter is essential reading (and its accompanying podcast essential listenin...
10 Nov 202350min
