Podcast Episodes

Failing "The God Test" (w/ Robert Wright) - Members Only #333

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Robert Wright’s new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Ou…

11 hours ago

Are We the Baddies? The Graham Platner Reckoning (w/ Kat Rosenfield) - #565

The great Kat Rosenfield joins us to discuss the ongoing fallout from rape allegations against Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner published M…

2 days, 18 hours ago

The Revolution Will Be Staffed by PhDs (w/co-host Peter Meijer) - #564

-The Fifth Column whiskey racket begins

-Matt moves during a heat wave… Peter Meijer reports for duty

-Meijer, class traitor, explains the pied-à-terre…

1 week, 1 day ago

Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)

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Also: a serious discussion of the cinematic category known as “movies…

1 week, 2 days ago

One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #331)

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We are lucky to be joined once again by Executive Editor of SCOTUSblo…

1 week, 3 days ago

The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)

-Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era

-Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didn’t know were covers

-Puerto Rico’s revenge

-The cadres are…

2 weeks ago

One Hitter: The DSA Takes NYC w/ Michael A. Cohen (Members Only #330)

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Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts U…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)

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-Ethnicity as performance

-Manhattan politics with the president of th…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)

-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans

-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse

-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal

-Strait of Hormuz, …

3 weeks ago

Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)

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Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with…

3 weeks, 2 days ago