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082: Reclaiming the Internet (w/ Mike Masnick)
Episode 86
What's happened to Twitter, or now X, is the clearest example of why it's actually not great that so much of our digital communication is controlled …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
081: How Trump is Using the Surveillance State Against Us (w/ Patrick G. Eddington)
The government's power to see is its power to oppress. The more the state knows about us, the more levers it has to control us. Understanding that co…
7 months ago
080: Liberty Means Taking Equality Seriously (w/ Jonathan Blanks)
Equality is central to the liberal project. Thomas Jefferson failed, dramatically and unforgivably, to live up to this ideal, but he stated in correc…
7 months, 1 week ago
079: What the Right Gets Wrong About Men (w/ Toby Buckle)
The Trumpist right has a very clear picture of what they imagine masculinity to be, and are quite upset that it's not a picture all men find all that…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
078: Why the Far-Right Pretends to Like Democracy (w/ Zack Beauchamp)
The authoritarian right loves to talk about how they're upholding democracy. Trump didn't lose the 2020 election, because if he had, democracy would'…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
077: Forging an Opposition to Trump (w/ Adam Gurri)
The first few months of the Trump administration have proven not just how willing much of America was to embrace and celebrate fascism, but how cruci…
8 months, 1 week ago
076: The Crank Theory of Everything (w/ Alysia Ames)
As we've talked about a fair amount on the show, gender is at the center of the ideological clashes defining our political moment. Trumpism is, at it…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
075: Ayn Rand Would've Hated Elon Musk (w/ Paul Crider)
Many very rich men who support Trump fancy themselves heroes from the novels of Ayn Rand. I've never done an episode of this show on Rand's ideas, be…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
074: How State Attorneys General are Taking the Fight to Trump (w/ Carolyn Fiddler)
I wanted to try to do a hopeful episode. The world look pretty grim right now, and many of us feel discouraged. The unlawful and authoritarian action…
9 months ago
073: Conservatism Falsely Promises Certainty (w/ Matthew McManus)
The right-wing ideologies we see most active in the world right now aren't intellectual by any stretch of the imagination. But there is a rich tradit…
9 months, 2 weeks ago