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Rage Against the ICE Machine
Season 1 Episode 20
Trent and Caitlin check in with journalist Steven Monacelli, a special investigative correspondent for the Texas Observer, about the evolution and cu…
1 year, 1 month ago
Authoritarian Overreach in Texas Libraries
Season 1 Episode 19
Caitlin and Trent reconnect with librarian and intellectual freedom advocate Katie Talhelm for an update about the legislative attacks on public and …
1 year, 1 month ago
Execution in America
Season 1 Episode 18
Trent and Caitlin talk to their old friend Clay Jackson, a former litigator and current licensed attorney in Texas. They discuss his plans to embrace…
1 year, 2 months ago
Everything Is Cuck
Season 1 Episode 17
Caitlin and Trent talk with Maureen Kosse, a linguist from Colorado who researches the semiotics of alt-right and far-right discourse. We talk about …
1 year, 2 months ago
Palestine in Context
Season 1 Episode 16
Trent and Caitlin talk to Layla al-Sheikh, who provides the history and context of the establishment of the Israeli state on Palestinian land, the ma…
1 year, 2 months ago
Showing Their Buts
Season 1 Episode 15
Trent and Caitlin talk to…each other??? Caitlin presents the reasoning behind her recent Liberal Currents essay on the rhetorical strategies used by …
1 year, 2 months ago
Anti-DEI or Just Segregationist?
Season 1 Episode 14
Caitlin and Trent join Associate Professor Victor Ray to talk about DEI. What is meant by DEI depends on who is using it and what they’re trying to g…
1 year, 3 months ago
Science vs. Propaganda: Trans Women in Sports
Season 1 Episode 13
Trent and Caitlin talk to Liberal Currents author Vikas Valiveti about the current state of scientific consensus on how trans girls and women compete…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why Did the Secret Police Visit Clay Jackson?
Season 1 Episode 12
Caitlin and Trent talk to Clay Jackson, a litigator from Dallas, Texas. Clay describes the disconcerting experience of having secret police show up t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why We Fear AI
Season 1 Episode 11
Trent and Caitlin speak with cognitive scientist, linguist, and AI researcher Hagen Blix about his book, co-authored with Ingeborg Glimmer, called “W…
1 year, 3 months ago