Podcast Episodes

Trump condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene, praises Mamdani; plus Alice Waters on ‘A School Lunch Revolution’ / Start Making Sense

Last Friday Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she was quitting after Trump excommunicated her from MAGA, while the same day Trump welcomed Zohran Mamd…

9 months ago

Chinese Prestige: From May Fourth to Mao w/ Yidi Wu | American Prestige

In lieu of a typical Tuesday episode this week, we are releasing the first episode of our new miniseries Chinese Prestige. Annual subscribers already…

9 months ago

Angelo Herndon and the Radical Politics of Free Speech w/ Randall Kennedy | The Nation Podcast

Angelo Herndon was a Black coal miner turned Communist activist who was repeatedly “arrested, convicted of vagrancy, and incarcerated” for his effort…

9 months ago

The Age of Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Doug Henwood | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer

The famed economist Larry Summers, not for the first time, finds himself the center of a

scandal. He’s had to take a leave from Harvard, where he teac…

9 months ago

Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters | Reading Writers

Charlotte overcomes her resistance to novels about sexual abuse in order to read Kate Elizabeth Russell’s excellent My Dark Vanessa, after which Jo i…

9 months ago

MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza | American Prestige

Danny and Derek are praying for Kim Kardashian to pass the bar. In this week’s news: Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia visits the White House (1:56…

9 months ago

Peter Thiel is the Real Antichrist w/ Gil Duran | Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Gil Duran to discuss how Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the antichrist is really a desperate and embarrassing attempt t…

9 months, 1 week ago

House Republicans Defy Trump; plus, when WWII Vets Came Home | Start Making Sense

After almost a year of Trump stonewalling about the Epstein files, Republicans in the House finally took a stand against him. More than a hundred Rep…

9 months, 1 week ago

Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi | American Prestige

Danny and Derek speak with political theorist and author Lea Ypi about her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which explores how personal memory …

9 months, 1 week ago

Jeffrey Epstein and the American Empire w/ Van Jackson | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer

The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cell

in 2019, has never gone away. It continues to explode…

9 months, 1 week ago