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#679 - Manufacturing Consensus
What happens when a historian who loves the American presidency is faced with a president like Donald Trump? We discuss the HBO documentary THE SOUL …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #678 - 2020 Dinesh's America
On the eve of the 2020 election, legendary conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza declared war against socialism - which, according to him, encompasse…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
#677 - Guilty Pleasures
On this episode, the hosts divulge some of their guiltiest pleasures, from Judge Judy to Kenny G to the writings of a couple of bona-fide right-wing …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #676 - Politics and the English Language
George Orwell's famous essay "Politics and the English Language" leads us into a discussion of good language, good thought, and their relationship. P…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
#675 - Where the Lions Weep
Ten years before Siri and quarter-century before Grok, Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick considered a new form of humanity in A.I. ARTIFI…
7 months ago
PREVIEW - #674 - Waldorf Salad
As a coda to our exhaustive study of his show The Dinosaur Hour, we thought it was only fair to discuss John Cleese from when he was at his peak. We …
7 months, 1 week ago
#673 - Virtual Encountering on a Global Scale
In A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (2016), Tom Hanks is a depressed American businessman trying to find himself in Saudi Arabia. It's the lamest fish-out-of-…
7 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #672 - Happiness Where Are You
A year before American Beauty offered its Oscar-ready glimpse beneath the placid surface of suburbia, Todd Solondz offered a truly unsparing depictio…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
#671 - The Discreet Charm of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie
Set in a world of young people and old money, Whit Stillman's METROPOLITAN (1990) offers an affectionate but melancholic view of the elite. We sort t…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #670 - Space Oddity
A few years after Stanley Kubrick envisioned humankind ascending to a new plane with the dawn of space exploration, John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's…
7 months, 3 weeks ago