Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Radical Alice in Wonderland w/ Claudia Moreno Parsons (PREVIEW)
Season 3 Episode 254
This week Claudia joins us to consider the magical cinematic collaborations of John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. We discuss The Thing (1982), Big Trou…
5 years, 1 month ago
Common Phantoms w/ Alicia Puglionesi
Season 3 Episode 253
Alicia Puglionesi is a writer and historian whose book Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science tells the story of how researchers in …
5 years, 1 month ago
Doctor Feelgood w/ Sam Adler-Bell
Season 3 Episode 252
Sam Adler-Bell is a writer and host of the excellent podcast Know Your Enemy. In this conversation, we discuss his recent piece in The Drift, "Docto…
5 years, 2 months ago
Contagion of Atrocity w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Season 3 Episode 251
Justin Rogers-Cooper joins us for a conversation about the Netflix true crime documentary series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. Our fo…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Three-Cornered War w/ Megan Kate Nelson
It's our 250th episode (!) and historian Megan Kate Nelson joins us for a very Nostalgia Trap conversation about the deep, unresolved contradictions …
5 years, 2 months ago
Lost in New York w/ Claudia Moreno Parsons (PREVIEW)
Season 3 Episode 249
After Hours (1985) and Life Lessons (1989), two of Martin Scorsese's most underrated films, share an obsession with the downtown New York art scene o…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Human Disease w/ Erik Baker
Season 3 Episode 248
Erik Baker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, researching the history of scientific and cultu…
5 years, 2 months ago
Vaya Con Dios w/ Claudia Moreno Parsons (PREVIEW)
Season 3 Episode 247
Point Break (1991, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) is a classic of 90s action cinema, combining an absolutely ludicrous plot (a gang of surfing bank robbers i…
5 years, 2 months ago
Perfect Storm w/ Jason Wilson
Season 3 Episode 246
Jason Wilson is an independent journalist whose work focuses on the American far right, extremist groups, and the U.S. security state. He joins us in…
5 years, 2 months ago
A Year in Hell w/ Luke O'Neil
Season 3 Episode 245
Luke O'Neil's Hell World newsletter collects stories and transmissions from the darker corners of modern American life, which at this point seems lik…
5 years, 2 months ago