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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 29: After Virtue Pt. I: Emotivism and Its Discontents
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emmet and John begin their reading series on Alisdair MacIntyre's classic work After Virtue. This episode's a more granular look at MacIntyre&...
Episode 28: What Happened In Texas?: Grading Without a Curve ft. Mark Nelson
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emmet talks with energy analyst Mark Nelson about how the Texas grid almost completely collapsed in mid-February and what that means for our future. M...
Episode 27: [teaser] Vax Traxx III: Medical Nihilism, mRNA Production Rundown, and the Downfall of the CDC ft. Canada Mike
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a teaser from our first Patreon episode. Subscribe here to listen to the full thing! We talk with Canada Mike about the stastical efficacy of...
Episode 26: Line Go Down: A GameStop Debrief ft. Matt Stonks
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our dear friend Matt Stonks joins us to talk about the whole GameStop thing. Matt helps us with some Markets 101 terminology, and then we talk about t...
Episode 25: Democracy Under Siege ft. Frank Furedi
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emmet sits down with Frank Furedi to discuss his latest book, Democracy Under Siege: Don't Let Them Lock It Down! They discuss Athenian Democracy,...
Episode 24: The Self-Design of American Nihilism
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk through three pieces: Leo Strauss's lecture on German Nihilism, Bradley Troemel's (recently banned from YouTube) video essay on QAnon,...
Episode 23: Vaccine Breakdown II: Decentralization Boogaloo ft. Canada Mike
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Canada Mike joins us to talk about why America's vaccine rollout plan doesn't make sense and why it's not going well. First, Emmet talks a...
Episode 22: Poe, Emerson, and Literary National Identity
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We conclude (for now) our readings of Poe and Emerson by taking a look at how they conceived of American literary nationalism. John goes deep into Eme...
Episode 21: Two Piece: Anger And Its Limits
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We muse on two articles listed just below and try to think through the problem of anger in politics and in personal life. Does anger corrupt? Is it cl...
Episode 20: We Are the Information Supervisors
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the docu...
Episode 19: Who Will Entertain In America?
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode of 2021 we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. We talk about Twitch s...
Episode 18: Single Use System Shock: Vaccine Production Problems ft. Canada Mike
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our end of year recap, we first talk reflect on the year before discussing how vaccines are made, how that's changed, and what that will mean f...
Episode 17: The Eclipse of the Demos ft. Kyong-Min Son
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with scholar Kyong-Min Son about his book The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism. We cover ...
Episode 16: American Canon: Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death"
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second installment in our American canon series, we look at our beloved failson Edgar Allan Poe. We discuss his life, legacy (especially his im...
Episode 15: The Jesus Campening of American Politics
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to und...
Episode 14: Two Piece: Con Jobs in Coal Country and Foxconn Jobs in Wisconsin
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We read two articles: one about a failed jobs program in coal country and another about a bad deal with Foxconn in Wisconsin. They were depressing and...
Episode 13: American Canon: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've decided to begin a running series dedicated to the American Canon. We open the episode by talking about why we're doing this before laun...
Episode 12: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. IV: Black Bloc Patrick Bateman Ft. Geoff Shullenberger
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's C...
Episode 11: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. III: Democratic Discourse in Crisis
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book about the challenges facing democratic discourse. We talk about education, the press, and how &quo...
Episode 10: Putting the Neocon in Neoconfuscianism: Conservative Responses to East Asia's Rise ft. Jennifer Miller
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Jennifer Miller joins us to talk about two papers she's written on conservative responses to the rise of East Asia in the latter part of...
Episode 9: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. II: Martyrs Don't Run the Church
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emmet and John continue their reading of Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. This time, they talk about democratic sub...
Episode 8: The Lasch Files: The Revolt of the Elites Pt. I
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emmet and John begin their investigation of Christopher Lasch's last book, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. They take Lasch...
Episode 7: Animalization, Anglo-Saxon Masochism, and Entrepreneurbrain
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John and Emmet have a sprawling conversation about narcissism, how efficiency maximization can encourage pleasure obsession, how we're all entrepr...
Episode 6: Pacific Rim: Blockchain, Techno-Utopianism, and American Soft-Power ft. Olivier Jutel
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Olivier Jutel, a research of political theorist from the University of Otago, joins Emmet and John to talk about blockchain, techno-utopianism, and Am...
Episode 5: The Parasocial Music Marketing Machine ft. Ian Cory (Pt. II)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lads finish up talking to Ian about the question of newness in music and whence artistic innovation comes. The song you year at the end is from th...
Episode 4: The Parasocial Music Marketing Machine ft. Ian Cory (Pt. I)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lads to talk Ian Cory of the band Lamniformes about being a musician, the shape of the music industry, and how the internet has changed over our l...
Episode 3: Two Piece: Dumbbells and the Death of Lucent Technologies
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about two articles: one from Vox about why no one in American can buy dumbbells, the other from American Affairs about the death of Lucent tec...
Episode 2: American Dharma ft. Canada Mike
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our friend Canada Mike joins us to review Errol Morris's American Dharma, his movie about Steven Bannon. It was disappointing to all of us, who lo...
Episode 1: Ground Zero
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the major themes of the podcast and what brought us to create it.