Podcast Episodes
Back to Search258: Pope Bob Vs. Trump World
The most annoying convert TradCath in the world, JD Vance, whose cherubic face belies all his bootlicking aggression, gets his moment with Pope Bob. …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Sample: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 2)
Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Brief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1)
You may have grown up with the term “nonviolence” shining like a pole star over every discussion of how we accomplish socio-political change. But wha…
10 months ago
257: AI Gurus
The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath thos…
10 months ago
Bonus Sample: The UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!
It begins with a failed human sacrifice in Detroit in 1932. Some would say it actually starts with an evil god-scientist who created the first white …
10 months ago
Brief: What Will Universal Healthcare Actually Require?
In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As …
10 months, 1 week ago
256: Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille)
Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling …
10 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Sample: How Did Gen X Go MAGA?
Gen X went from leaning slightly right in 2016 to become, as one analysis puts it, “the bedrock of Trumpism.” Derek meditates on what happened to his…
10 months, 1 week ago
Brief: The New Media Order
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a little different this year. No president. No comedian. The event featured a mea culpa from an Axios jour…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
255: A MAHA Wellness Scam at Ontario Place
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has leased the public space of OP to the Therme Spa company, which promises to bring welln…
10 months, 2 weeks ago