Podcast Episodes

Episode 131 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Dining, Flavortowns and Gender

Season 5 Episode 109

For this episode, Adrian and Moira talk about gender and food -- specifically about the figure of the chef, visible and invisible labor and masculini…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 130 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Season 5 Episode 108

For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902). Famous as a pioneering feminist intellectual and crusa…

3 months ago

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Episode 129 -- Looksmaxxing

Season 5 Episode 107

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the strange, disturbing world of looksmaxxing. We try to spend less time asking where this phenomenon com…

3 months, 1 week ago

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From behind the Paywall: Episode 105 -- Richard Wagner's Parsifal

Season 5 Episode 106

This week, Adrian and Moira are both traveling -- Adrian is finishing work on the newly titled Project 1933: Fascism Then and Now (available for preo…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 128 -- Queer Women in Nazi Germany

Season 5 Episode 105

Expanding on our Project 1933 series, for this episode we talked to historian Sam Huneke about the fate of queer women in Nazi Germany, 1933 and onwa…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 127 -- Bari Weiss, Part 2

Season 5 Episode 104

In the second half of our two-part series on one of In Bed with the Right's bêtes noires, Adrian and Moira chart the resistible rise of Bari Weiss's …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 126 -- Bari Weiss, Part 1

Season 5 Episode 103

It's the first half of our (possibly? hopefully?) two-part series on In Bed with the Right final boss, Bari Weiss: reactionary centrist extraordinair…

4 months ago

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Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights

Season 5 Episode 102

Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In …

4 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files

Season 5 Episode 101

One of the men whose presence in the Epstein Files has been making a lot of news is Bard College's forever president Leon Botstein. While there is no…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse

Season 5 Episode 100

A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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