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Palo Alto’s ghosts, with Malcolm Harris
Hello from the Bay Area!
This week, it’s just Jay speaking with Malcolm Harris, the author of the recently published Palo Alto: A History of Californ…
2 years, 9 months ago
The kids (and parents) aren’t all right, with Bryce Covert
Hello from Jay’s flooded basement! (Apologies for our less-than-ideal audio.)
This week, our guest is Bryce Covert, a writer who covers the culture a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ten long years of socialist politicking, with Kshama Sawant
Hello from Tammy’s COVID bunker!
This week, after a short tribute to Montana’s “dean of journalism,” Chuck Johnson, R.I.P., Tammy speaks with Kshama …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Asian Oscars, tradwives, and Korean feminists
Hello from Jay’s tradlife mancave!
It’s just us this week, dissecting all the ways our culture has gone too far. We begin with [0:20] a debrief of th…
2 years, 9 months ago
‘100% authentic fake:’ Corky Lee’s Asian America, with Ken Chen
Hello from a D.C. hotel!
This week, our guest is Ken Chen, writer, professor, and former director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW). We …
2 years, 10 months ago
When the right wing co-opts identity politics
Hello from our normal, boring lives!
Tammy returns from her reporting trip out West, and Jay is back at work after taking half his parental leave. It…
2 years, 10 months ago
What can’t A.I. replace, with Ben Recht
Hello from a sci-fi future!
Tammy’s on a reporting trip this week, so it’s just Jay talking to our guest Ben Recht, a professor of computer science an…
2 years, 10 months ago
Another train derails, with freight conductor Nick Wurst
Hello from an ongoing ecological disaster!
Our guest this week is Nick Wurst, a freight-rail conductor and a member of the SMART-TD union, who joined…
2 years, 10 months ago
“Tár,” a film for the chattering class, with Vinson Cunningham
Hello from Juilliard!
This week, our friend Vinson Cunningham, award-winning critic at The New Yorker, joins Tammy and Jay to discuss 2022’s wokest(?…
2 years, 11 months ago
How many cops is enough?
Hello from our culture of violence!
This week, Tammy and Jay talk through some painful questions following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memph…
2 years, 11 months ago