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The Glory of Small Things: Ian Bogost on How To Be Enchanted by Diet Coke Cans & Plane Tickets
Episode 2967
“I crack the tab open, and I feel the cold metal… I hear the tink and give of the aluminum. And maybe when I’m done, I crush it into a small patty.” …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Democrats Screwed Bernie: Tad Devine on the 2016 Campaign, the Rigged Economy, and What’s at Stake in 2028
Episode 2966
“America has a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt system of campaign finance.” — the message Tad Devine and Ben Tulchin developed for Bernie S…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Sudden Flicker of Light: Has David Thomson Fallen Out of Love With the Movies?
Episode 2965
“For all the paperwork of democracy — government by and for the people — we have become a citizenry of spectators who simply want to be entertained. …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Was the Colonization of North America a Genocidal Project? David Silverman on the Tragic Fate of Native Americans
Episode 2964
“White Americans considered themselves chosen by God to possess the continent and lord it over others — and they saw Native people as indelibly savag…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Universal Basic Capitalism: The Next American Revolution Or More Trickle Down Economics?
Episode 2963
“The pinnacle of capitalism is still flawed. Any idea that it’s perfect — this idea of the perfect union — is deeply flawed as a concept and always h…
3 months ago
The United States of Oddity: Madeleine Schwartz on How the World Sees America at 250
Episode 2962
“What is happening today in America is part of a global political turn — and what’s odd is how little the American people seem to realize it.” — Made…
3 months ago
America's Grand Faustian Bargain: Alexander Mikaberidze on How the Louisiana Purchase Made the United States
Episode 2961
Tomorrow, America will celebrate its birth. But the decisive moment, even the real birth of modern America, argues Alexander Mikaberidze in his new b…
3 months ago
Dear America — Happy Fucking Birthday: Christopher Hooks on an Exhausted United States at 250
Episode 2960
“There’s a kind of exhaustion and resentment — maybe sometimes feeling a little foolish about still feeling attached to some idea of this country tha…
3 months ago
How We Disappear: Thomas Mullaney’s All-Too-Personal History of Information
Episode 2959
“The second law of thermodynamics is not to be negotiated with.” — Thomas S. Mullaney
The second law of thermodynamics is non-negotiable. The univers…
3 months ago
If I Perish, I Perish: Katie Gaddini on the Army of Esthers Powering the American Right
Episode 2958
“If I perish, I perish.” — the chant Katie Gaddini heard from Esther’s Army at the National Mall, weeks before the 2024 election
Back in 2021, at the…
3 months ago