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Back to SearchEpisode 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, 4 months ago
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, 5 months ago
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, 5 months ago
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, 5 months ago
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, 5 months ago
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, 6 months ago
Episode 17: Otto Weininger, or Gender and Anti-Semitism
Season 5 Episode 18
Adrian takes Moira into the wild, wildly misogynist and deeply depressing world of Otto Weininger (1880-1903). A posterchild for all manner of fin-de…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 16: Kate Manne on Anti-Fatness
Season 5 Episode 17
Philosopher Kate Manne (Down Girl, Entitled) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about the politics of anti-fatness – where fatphobia came from historical…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 15: Taylor Swift
Season 5 Episode 10
Follow Adrian following Moira following various conservative pundits down what is already shaping up to be one of 2024 weirder rabbit holes: the Grea…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 14: Prisoner of Sex – Norman Mailer vs. Kate Millett and Women
Season 5 Episode 9
In her 1970 book “Sexual Politics” feminist critic Kate Millett devoted 20 pages to a critique of novelist and public intellectual Norman Mailer. In …
2 years, 9 months ago