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Hermès Burning // 272
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We discuss cannibalism, the communicative value of rioting, and the English news coverage of the Fre…
12 hours ago
The Scapegoat - René Girard // 271 (preview)
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René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between der…
6 days, 7 hours ago
René Girard on Blood Sacrifice // 270
René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topi…
1 week, 6 days ago
Learning Fake Economics in a Fake Economy // 268
We ask Cahal Moran what leftists need to get straight on economics, talking through "orthodox" vs. "heterodox" economics, the labour theory of value,…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Fit Fascists v. Fat Foucauldians // 266
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Is health fascism? Is Ozempic Zyklon-B? Shou…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Palantir's "Marxist Critical Theory" CEO // 263
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The business press has pushed the "leftist-outsider-dishevelled-genius" about Palant…
2 months ago
Today is' Arday // 264
The Pill Pod debates the academic and ethics perspectives' following the terminal end of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal.
2 months, 1 week ago
The Right's Recycled Mythology of Far-Left Terrorism // 261
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Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio are calling The Left strange combin…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Nature's Leftist Conspiracy against Western Civilization: Contemporary Mythology // 260
Socialist are to blame for the Forest Fires. Antifa caused Algae to take over the reflecting pool. Conservatives believe that nature has allied with …
3 months, 1 week ago
LLMs prove Structuralism was Correct all Along // 258
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There's only been about a century of structuralism. It had a day, then in the …
3 months, 3 weeks ago