Podcast Episodes

Record Trap Ep 3 - The Devil in the Music, Part Two (PREVIEW)

Justin Farrar and I continue our conversation about rock music and the occult by watching the incredibly disturbing Paradise Lost documentary series…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 334: Manufacturing Noam Chomsky, Part Three w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

On the third and final installment of our series on the life, work, and legacy of Noam Chomsky, Justin and I talk about Chomsky the Doomer: between n…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 333: Manufacturing Noam Chomsky, Part Two w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW 2)

Here's another quick clip from Part Two of our trilogy with Justin Rogers-Cooper on the complicated life, work, and legacy of Noam Chomsky. 

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3 years, 8 months ago

Record Trap Ep 2 - The Devil in the Music, Part One

Where does American popular music come from, and what does the devil have to do with it? On Part One of a two-part series on music and the occult, Ju…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 333: Manufacturing Noam Chomsky, Part Two w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)

Our series on the life, work, and legacy of Noam Chomsky continues with a critical look at Chomsky's signature intellectual work, Manufacturing Cons…

3 years, 8 months ago

Gender Trap - Ep 6 : Girls, Working (PREVIEW)

This week Yasmin and I watch two films, Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986) and Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988), as we think about the intersection…

3 years, 8 months ago

Campus Trap Ep 4 - Slow City Vibes (PREVIEW)

Ryan's recent trip to Montreal gets us thinking about the connections between cities and college campuses, as we try to imagine more vibrant institut…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 332: Manufacturing Noam Chomsky, Part One w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper

In the first of a trilogy of episodes examining the life, work, and legacy of Noam Chomsky, Justin Rogers-Cooper joins us for a discussion of Chomsky…

3 years, 8 months ago

Gender Trap - Ep 5 : Roe is Me (PREVIEW)

On our first episode after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, Yasmin Nair and I take a moment to consider the implications: What does this mean…

3 years, 8 months ago

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 331: Winter in America w/ Dan McClure

Historian and writer Dan McClure returns to the Trap for a talk about his incredible new book Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism…

3 years, 8 months ago