Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism
As Trump ramps up his immigration raids in California and brings the armed forces to bear against peaceful citizen protesters, I want to talk more about the long, racist history behind similar immigra...
17 Juni 202550min
Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis
In this episode, I discuss the history of the controversial wartime power that Trump has invoked to justify his mass deportations and the importance of the inalienable rights of due process and habeas...
3 Juni 20251h 4min
Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions
In this episode, in response to Trump's order supposedly "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," I look at the many ways he and his handlers/enablers distort and whitewash history and "sanew...
20 Maj 202545min
Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies
In this episode, I tell the history of the US through the history of controversial tariff policies, and I examine speculation about the motivations behind Trump's disastrous tariff hikes. For an ea...
6 Maj 202548min
Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday
From claims about the pagan origins of Easter traditions to biblical literalists asserting that the miraculous darkness at the crucifixion is historically provable, I explode all kinds of myths in thi...
22 Apr 202553min
The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome
Throughout the Middle Ages and the Reformation, a story was told of the first female Pope, who had hidden her sex and been elevated to the highest position within the Church by accident. The story of ...
8 Apr 202543min
Empress Elagabalus
In the face of trans erasure and genocide, this episode affirms the existence of transgender people throughout history, focusing on the trans empress of the Roman Empire, long misgendered and called E...
25 Mars 202557min
The Erasure of Aspasia
An examination of Aspasia, a woman of ancient Athens who was universally agreed to have been extremely influential in politics and philosophy, depicted as both a harlot and a sage. Get 3 months of pr...
11 Mars 202558min
