Podcast Episodes

Episode 145: How Real Estate-Curated 'Mom & Pop Landlord' Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections

"The eviction moratorium is killing small landlords" CNBC cautions. "Some small landlords struggle under eviction moratoriums," declares The Washingt…

4 years, 6 months ago

Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions

"Write from experience." "Show, don't tell." Self-knowledge. Self-discipline. Well-known conventions like these, whether delivered in classrooms, wri…

4 years, 6 months ago

Episode 143 - PR and Prop 22: How Silicon Valley Uses Hollow "Anti-Racist" Posturing to Sell Its Exploitative Business Model

In June 2020, founders of the ride-request app Lyft announced that they had launched "allyship dialogues" and were committed to fighting "systemic ra…

4 years, 6 months ago

Ep 142: The Summer of Anti-BLM Backlash and How Concepts of "Crime" Were Shaped By the Propertied Class

"Concerns rising inside White House over surge in violent crime," CNN tells us. "America's Crime Surge: Why Violence Is Rising, And Solutions To Fix…

4 years, 8 months ago

Live Interview: How the 'Pandemic Games' Expose the Neoliberal Scam of Global Sporting Events

In this recording of a Live Interview for Patrons from 7/22, we discuss the scheduled shock doctrine of global sporting events like FIFA and the Olym…

4 years, 8 months ago

Episode 141: How "Most Livable Cities" Lists Center Upwardly Mobile White Professionals

"America's 50 best cities to live in," reveals USA Today. "These rising U.S. cities could become the top places to live and work from home," reports …

4 years, 8 months ago

Episode 140 - Kicking the Hollywood Habit: Addiction Morality Tales in Film and TV [Virtual Live Show]

4 years, 8 months ago

Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination

"Beef. It's what's for dinner," the baritone voices of actors Robert Mitchum and Sam Elliott told us in the 1990s. "We're not gonna let Joe Biden an…

4 years, 9 months ago

News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'

In this public News Brief, we examine 24 hours of CNN's mindless police stenography undermining modest bail reform in New York.

4 years, 9 months ago

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

In this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depres…

4 years, 9 months ago