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What's a Bernie person supposed to do now?: A pre-election special with Brooke Adams and Tobita Chow
Bonus pre-election episode!
Two weeks ahead of the last judgment, Andy talks with two organizers about the “existential battle” over the soul of the D…
5 years, 7 months ago
Korean wig stores, with Jenny Wang Medina; and Hunger Games in Thailand
Welcome to the Terrordome!
This week, we have a brilliant guest, TTSG pal and Korean literature scholar Jenny Wang Medina, who grew up in her family’s…
5 years, 7 months ago
Abolishing Silicon Valley: Wendy Liu
A bonus deep-dive episode into the culture and politics of Big Tech and Silicon Valley!
Today Andy chats with the writer Wendy Liu (no relation) abou…
5 years, 7 months ago
SCOTUS trouble, working-class white people, and Taiwan's military
Hello from the National Speech & Debate Tournament!
This week, we unpack the idea of court packing, look for common cause with working-class whites, a…
5 years, 7 months ago
Trump has Covid! Is the virus totally random? And listener questions.
Happy belated Mid-Autumn Festival!
We pried Andy away from doomscrolling 45 to bring you this late-night episode of semi-coherent thoughts on the Ame…
5 years, 8 months ago
"Itaewon Class" and class politics; and what to make of left-wing utopias
Hello from Andy’s Zoom lecture!
This week: the class politics of the Netflix K-drama “Itaewon Class” (이태원 클라쓰), success and failure in leftist utopias…
5 years, 8 months ago
The 1776 Project, TikTok nationalism, and four listener questions
Hello from the TTSG drop-out commune!
This week, a longer-than-we-intended show about the TikTok saga, Chinese/US hegemony, and nationalist traps. We…
5 years, 8 months ago
From 9/11 to 45: How Will We Remember Trump, USA?
Whither memory: Guantanamo W. Bush paints over his legacy.
Hello from the future!
Inspired (triggered?) by last week’s commemorations of 9/11, we get …
5 years, 8 months ago
Race Fakes, Disparity Discourse, and Mulan in Xinjiang
Greetings from Jay’s 95-degree basement!
This week, we start, inevitably, with our takes on Jessica Krug, the historian caught assuming a series of br…
5 years, 9 months ago
Basketball Revolution? Plus Death and Fear in Kenosha and Portland
Greetings from our virtual union hall!
This week, we talk protest and death in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon, and consider what to make of…
5 years, 9 months ago