Podcast Episodes

Episode 139 -- Mifepristone

Season 5 Episode 120

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the history of Mifepristone. Developed in France in the 1980s, this medication (which, together with Miso…

4 months ago

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Episode 138 -- The Politics of Plagiarism-Hunting

Season 5 Episode 118

In this episode, Adrian walks Moira through the strange politics of plagiarism hunting -- an (initially non-partisan) German preoccupation that becam…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 137 -- Catching Up with the Cinema of Cancellation

Season 5 Episode 116

For a while now (though mostly on Patreon), Moira and Adrian have examined a strange canon of films and texts about. powerful people being taken down…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 136 -- Marilyn Monroe

Season 5 Episode 114

For this episode, Moira guides Adrian through the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe, and the role gender played in all three. Monroe was born…

5 months ago

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Episode 134: Natural Law

Season 5 Episode 112

In this episode Moira and Adrian discuss the natural law tradition -- its origins, its long varied history, the many uses to which it has been put, a…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"

Season 5 Episode 110

In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibbol…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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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…

6 months 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…

6 months, 1 week 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…

6 months, 2 weeks 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…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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