Podcast Episodes

News Brief: Boudin Recall Coverage and how the NYT Sells 'Tough on Crime' Dogma to Squishy Liberals

In this News Brief, we examine two New York Times articles—one about Chesa Boudin and one about Eric Adams—and how they serve as object lessons in ho…

3 years, 9 months ago

Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics

"Follow The Data" is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. "How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing," a 2018 NPR headline r…

3 years, 10 months ago

News Brief: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings

In this public News Breif, we discuss the phoned-in, cynical response by Republicans to mass shooting and how they've devolved into a dark, meta self…

3 years, 10 months ago

News Brief: Tucker & Co Try to Lawyer Their Way Out of Trafficking in Great Replacement Rhetoric

After a white nationalist kills 10 in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, those most responsible for mainstreaming white nationalist talking points tr…

3 years, 10 months ago

Ep. 161: The Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of "Criminal Profiling"

Criminal Minds. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Inside the Criminal Mind. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

Each of these is the title …

3 years, 10 months ago

Ep.160: The 'Last $100 in Your Bank Account' Economy - How Media's Love Affair with Crypto, NFTs and Gambling Prey Upon Working People

"NFTs May Seem Like Frivolous Fads. They Should Be the Future of Music," argues Rolling Stone magazine. "How to Buy Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencie…

3 years, 11 months ago

Ep. 159: The Anti-Worker Pseudo-psychology of Corporate Personality Testing

"Is it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or b) a consistently reasonable person?" "Are you more successful at a) followi…

3 years, 11 months ago

Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage

In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Li…

3 years, 11 months ago

Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples

"It is safe to say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums," wrote New York City official Robert Moses in 1945. "Our ancestors came across the o…

3 years, 11 months ago

News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell Criminalizing Homelessness

In this News Brief, we examine the convoluted, vague rhetorical labor involved in making purging unhoused populations with cops seem humane and anody…

4 years ago