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Migrants and Refugees on Fortress Earth: Our politicized, fortified, industrialized borders in the US and Europe
Episode 1639
Air Date 7/2/2024
Border security around the world continues to take turns for the dark and dystopian as right-wing sentiment against migrants and re…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bonus Sample: The Torment Nexus
Episode 310
Air Date: 6-30-24
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- the baffling trend of tech companies using cautionary tales from dystopian fiction as…
2 years, 2 months ago
AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum
Episode 1638
Air Date 6/28/2024
AI, like all new technologies, won't be all good or all bad. In fact, my favorite understanding of emerging technologies is that t…
2 years, 2 months ago
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Throwback)
Episode 1590
Original Air Date: 10/23/2023
The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a small minority of the population hav…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: Of Kidults and Puppets
Episode 309
Air Date: 6-23-24
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- The Kidult trend in depth (since we had to cut it short last time)
- A right-wing att…
2 years, 2 months ago
Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity
Episode 1637
Air Date 6/21/2024
The European elections could have been worse but they weren't great. Shifting politics among mainstream parties is legitimizing fa…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)
Episode 1460
Original Air Date: 12/11/2021
Today we take a look at the many structures of American government that tilt to favor minority rule and conservatism wh…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: Let the Kids (and Adults) Play
Episode 308
Air Date: 6-16-24
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- The importance of unsupervised playtime for children and why it's disappearing
- The …
2 years, 2 months ago
The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
Episode 1636
Air Date 6/14/2024
We're in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for non-extreme conservatives in the country, at the …
2 years, 2 months ago
Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail
Episode 1635
Air Date 6/11/2024
Democracies don't break all of a sudden in a moment of crisis, they fail slowly over time and only by knowing the warning signs an…
2 years, 2 months ago