Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBonus Sample: A Theory of Motivation
We’ve spent the last three-and-a-half years criticizing a range of wellness ideas, charismatic charlatans, abusive self-styled gurus, and conspiracy …
2 years, 5 months ago
Brief: Russell Brand
In light of the recent allegations, Matthew offers a backgrounder on what we’ve learned about Brand through conspirituality and cultic studies and fr…
2 years, 5 months ago
172: Why Always the Jews? (w/Mike Rothschild)
Who could be a better guide through the fever dream of modern anti-semitism—the socialism of fools—than a scrappy young scion of the House of Rothsch…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bonus Sample: You Can’t Just Take Things Away from People
When we deconstruct harmful ideas and beliefs—from antivax positions to reactionary social views—we will inevitably be seen or felt as attacking the …
2 years, 6 months ago
Brief: The Planet is Burning, Man (w/Tommy Diacono)
Burning Man 2023 will forever be burned in memory with two images: a group of climate activists blocking the single road into Black Rock City and the…
2 years, 6 months ago
171: Cracking the Mirror World (w/Naomi Klein)
Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a polymathic work that serves up new political heuristics with the firepower we’ve come t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 2: Roger Stone
The Forrest Gump dandy of right-wing dirty tricks is in the news again. Strategizing from the Willard Hotel as January 6 unfolded; protected by a cot…
2 years, 6 months ago
Brief: Review of Naomi Klein’s "Doppelganger"
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is an exuberant, polymathic effort, in which Klein develops several new political heuristics that pack the…
2 years, 6 months ago
170: The Age of Insurrection (w/David Neiwert)
Do you ever feel like American society is caught in limbo? The bardo-realm between two election cycles. The dial-up static between invasive social me…
2 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Perils of "Free Speech"
Claiming your First Amendment rights are being violated is a sure way to have the spotlight shone on you. It's also an effective way to shut down cri…
2 years, 6 months ago