Podcast Episodes

Bonus Sample: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 2)

Part 2 of Matthew’s conversation with historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley), who hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of t…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Brief: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 1)

Historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley) hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an exc…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

254: The Great MAHA Purity War of 2025

Someone’s got dirt on RFK Jr. MAHA voters went MAGA because Bobby said he was going to end vaccine mandates—their code for ending vaccines, period. N…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Bonus Sample: God is a Cloned Alien Love-Machine!

When the aliens landed, they told a young musician and wannabe race car driver that he was the chosen one, and they were the real gods. He should bui…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Brief: The Cult of Crossfit

When cultural and psychological anthropologist Katie Rose Hejtmanek set out to study Crossfit, she knew she had to throw herself into it fully. For s…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

253: The Politics of Abundance

"In order to have the future we want, we have to build and invent more of the things we need."

That’s the central claim of Ezra Klein and Derek Thomp…

11 months ago

Bonus Sample: We Already Know What September Will Bring

It's been quite the week at HHS with Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge. Derek considers what's been going on: Bobby's announcement that he's going to "de…

11 months ago

Brief: Karma & Christ at the NIH

Jay Bhattacharya, Covid contrarian and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, is now the Director of the NIH. The day before beginning his ne…

11 months ago

252: Netflix vs. Andrew Tate (On “Adolescence”)

There’s a mystery of violence swirling in and amongst the kids these days. Especially boys. What could it be? Snapchat? Video games? Andrew Tate? A h…

11 months, 1 week ago

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Woodshed 3.1: The Kids are Alright

Part Two: Matthew remembers the snow job of “The Sound of Music.” Also: more on Sophie Scholl, introducing the Edelweiss Pirates, the “adult gaze”, w…

11 months, 1 week ago