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Back to SearchEp 402 - The Bookshop w/ Evan Friss
This week I'm joined by Evan Friss, author of the current New York Times bestseller The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, which traces …
1 year, 2 months ago
News Trap 1.10.25 - Let 'Em Burn w Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
Fires in Los Angeles unleash a wave of online hate from the left and right. What chance do we have to mitigate the coming climate change disasters if…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep 401 - Love Means Research w/ David Humphries
This week I talk with David Humphries, a professor of English at Queensborough Community College in New York City, about his excellent project Happy…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep 400 - The Disney Revolt w/ Jake S. Friedman
A critical but often overlooked chapter in American labor history, the animator's strike that shook the Walt Disney Corporation in 1941 was part of a…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ep 399 - Severance/Doppelganger w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
This week we watched the excellent Apple TV series Severance and put it in conversation with Naomi Klein's latest book Doppelganger: A Trip into the…
1 year, 3 months ago
News Trap 12.6.24 Survival of the Fittest w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
A United Healthcare CEO is assassinated and the world laughs, fitness and nutrition culture goes fascist, Europe in collapse while China salivates, T…
1 year, 4 months ago
News Trap 11.29.24 - The Internet Eats America w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
It's Black Friday, so between insane binges of online shopping, Justin and I sat down to record a conversation about the Netflix documentary The Anti…
1 year, 4 months ago
News Trap 11.25.24 - Tending the Light
Musk's endgame on environmental regulations, universities bracing for a war on DEI and critical race theory, Houthi pirates drawn to their deaths in …
1 year, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Ep 398: In Levittown's Shadow w/ Tim Keogh
Tim Keogh is an Associate Professor of History at the Queensborough Community College in New York City. His book In Levittown's Shadow: Poverty in A…
1 year, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Ep 397: Vincent Van Gogh to the Polls w/ Peter Sabatino
This week I'm joined by my good friend Peter Sabatino for a conversation all about Vincent Van Gogh's personal and artistic legacy. We both read the …
1 year, 5 months ago