Podcast Episodes

Revolution and Ruin: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

A young man goes home to announce his exciting new political and philosophical ideas to his family, only for the family dinner to devolve into shouti…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Ladies Ruin Everything

Season 2 Episode 85

Did women ruin the workplace? Is wokeness feminine? Is this credit card my friend? Is cancel culture Malthusian? etc etc. Yes, the political right wi…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Copaganda Returns

Season 2 Episode 84

PBS recently decided to schedule the documentary The Last 600 Yards, about American troops fighting in Fallujah, after having shelved it for over a d…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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American Heroes

Season 2 Episode 83

Once an archetype has been constructed, it's really difficult to dismantle it. And one of the prevailing archetypes of the 20th century was that of t…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

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Trickle Down Morality

Season 2 Episode 82

In the new book Motherland, Julia Ioffe discusses how the Soviet feminist revolution was state sponsored. During and after 1917, the government manda…

8 months ago

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The American Uncanny on Film

Season 2 Episode 81

Nico's got that funny feeling again, that the program the United States ran in South America for decades has come home. We talk about the uncanny fee…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Revolution and Ruin: Charlotte Bronte's Shirley

In the industrial age, there was a widespread disruption of communities. Traditional methods of charity and redistribution of resources were undermin…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Exploit or Be Exploited

Season 2 Episode 80

In the creative economy, it is more profitable to be a dead creator than a living working writer. Or that is the lesson learned from the lawsuit the …

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Recovered Panic

Season 2 Episode 79

One of the bestselling nonfiction books of the moment is a memoir about a wealthy and successful woman dealing with memories of horrific sexual assau…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Charlie Kirk Effect

Season 2 Episode 78

The political right has been looking for a George Floyd figure, a martyr they can name streets after and get protests around and use to pass sweeping…

9 months ago

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