Podcast Episodes

Episode 27: Biden

Season 5 Episode 28

Moira and Adrian talk about Joe Biden's campaign, about the age question and the fallout from the calamitous presidential debate. NOTE: We recorded t…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Episode 26: J.D. Vance with Gabe Winant

Season 5 Episode 27

In a special emergency episode, Moira and Adrian talk with historian Gabe Winant about J.D. Vance, Donald Trump's pick for vice president. Gender, cl…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Episode 25: Richard Wagner: Act II

Season 5 Episode 26

Adrian and Moira return for another episode on the life and works of Richard Wagner, investigating the radical political/philosophical influences tha…

2 years ago

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Episode 24: LIVE SHOW Anita Bryant with Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About

Season 5 Episode 25

For this live show, Moira and Adrian blinking step into the big world and come face to face with other human beings! Specifically Sarah Marshall of t…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Episode 23: RFK Jr.

Season 5 Episode 24

Moira walks Adrian through the strange, tragic, enraging life of RFK Jr.—vaccine skeptic, presidential candidate, and literal brain worm survivor. Al…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Episode 22: Richard Wagner: Act I

Season 5 Episode 23

Adrian leads Moira through the life and career of composer Richard Wagner—a not-so-great man with some of world history's worst fans. Aesthetics, pol…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Episode 21: "The Campus" in the American Imagination with Samuel Catlin

Season 5 Episode 22

Samuel Catlin (University at Buffalo) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about "The Campus" -- about the peculiar mental image Americans seem to have, ho…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Episode 20: Conservatism's Daddy Issues

Season 5 Episode 21

Moira and Adrian speak to political scientist Jeff Dudas about his 2017 book Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism. The conversati…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Episode 19: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?

Season 5 Episode 20

In this episode, Moira and Adrian delve into Judith Butler's latest book -- about the worldwide movement against "gender" and the role it plays in ri…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Episode 18: Trad Wives

Season 5 Episode 19

Moira guides Adrian through the strange, troubling world of tradwifery -- the latest trend in butter-churning, vaguely religious gender conservatism …

2 years, 3 months ago

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