In Bed With The Right

Episode 134: Natural Law

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Moira and Adrian discuss the natural law tradition -- its origins, its long varied history, the many uses to which it has been put, an...

Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibbole...

Episode 131 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Dining, Flavortowns and Gender

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, Adrian and Moira talk about gender and food -- specifically about the figure of the chef, visible and invisible labor and masculinit...

Episode 130 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902). Famous as a pioneering feminist intellectual and crusad...

Episode 129 -- Looksmaxxing

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the strange, disturbing world of looksmaxxing. We try to spend less time asking where this phenomenon come...

From behind the Paywall: Episode 105 -- Richard Wagner's Parsifal

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Adrian and Moira are both traveling -- Adrian is finishing work on the newly titled Project 1933: Fascism Then and Now (available for preor...

Episode 128 -- Queer Women in Nazi Germany

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Expanding on our Project 1933 series, for this episode we talked to historian Sam Huneke about the fate of queer women in Nazi Germany, 1933 and onwar...

Episode 127 -- Bari Weiss, Part 2

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the second half of our two-part series on one of In Bed with the Right's bêtes noires, Adrian and Moira chart the resistible rise of Bari Weiss's ...

Episode 126 -- Bari Weiss, Part 1

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's the first half of our (possibly? hopefully?) two-part series on In Bed with the Right final boss, Bari Weiss: reactionary centrist extraordinaire...

Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In ...

Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of the men whose presence in the Epstein Files has been making a lot of news is Bard College's forever president Leon Botstein. While there is no ...

Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco ...

Episode 121 -- Moira's in the Epstein Files

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Epstein files are many things: a study in elite impunity, a deep core sample of societal misogyny, a record of institutional failure. But they als...

Episode 120 -- The Murder of Alex Pretti

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by Border Patrol ag...

Episode 118 -- The Romantasy Boom

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Abby Kluchin from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast to discuss a recent publishing phenomenon and its ...

Episode 117 -- Birth Control Misinformation

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the conservative attack on birth control, and in particular the influencer-led, MAHA-adjacent surge of mi...

Episode 116 -- A Murder in Minneapolis

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a killing that was captured by multiple camer...

Episode 115 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto with Michael Hobbes

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

To start the year off right, Moira and Adrian were joined by Michael Hobbes to discuss Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto, the media hubbub about it, and w...

Episode 114 -- Project 1933, Part X: December 1 - December 31

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

From the Vaults: Andrew Sullivan, Part 2

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a special Holiday treat, out from behind the paywall, here's the second part of our Andrew Sullivan episode -- or "Andrew 2: Electric Boogaloo", as...

From the Vaults: Andrew Sullivan, Part 1

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Holidays from In Bed with the Right!!! Unfortunately, the festive season has gotten away from us and the two remaining episodes on our schedule ...

Episode 113: The 2025 Daytime Cursties (with Michael Hobbes)

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's cold outside, the Holidays are here, and you know what that means: It's Cursed-Discourse Awards-Season, motherf@ckers! Not-even-close-to-live fro...

Episode 112 -- The Natural Childbirth Movement

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira walks Adrian through the strange, diagonalist history of the idea of "natural birth" -- from 1930s eugenicists to hippie communes, from radical ...

Episode 110 -- Project 1933, Part IX: November 1 - November 30

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 108 -- Live from San Francisco, It's Moral Panic Bingo Night!

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate our 100th episode (belatedly), your intrepid hosts recently took to the stage of San Francisco's Swedish-American Hall for a special live...

Episode 107 -- Did Women Ruin Everything?

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through "The Great Feminization" -- a recent talk/essay that took the right wing by storm, and that subsequently g...

Episode 106 -- Spousal Rape and the Rideout Case

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, writer Sarah Weinman walks Moira and Adrian through the story of the 1978 case Oregon v. Rideout and how spousal rape became a crime ...

Episode 104 -- Project 1933, Part VIII: October 1 - October 31

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 102 -- Powers of Horror (Film), Part 2

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To get you ready for spooky season, here's In Bed with the Right with a second look at some classic horror films, asking: What's scary about gender? A...

Episode 101 -- Powers of Horror (Film), Part 1

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just in time for spooky season, here's In Bed with the Right with a look at some classic horror films, asking: What's scary about gender? And what's g...

Episode 100 -- Mailbag, Part 2

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You guys, IBWTR just hit 100 episodes! And we'll be honest, this milestone snuck up on us. We'll be celebrating this anniversary over the next few epi...

Episode 99 -- Fetal Personhood

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fetal personhood is one of those doctrines that have moved from the fringes of the conservative legal movement (and even from the fringes of right win...

Episode 98 -- Project 1933, Part VII: September 1 - September 30

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 96 -- Phyllis Schlafly, Part 2

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second part of our epic deep dive into the life of Phyllis Schlafly -- the far-right firebrand who brought down an amendment and arguably ...

Episode 94 -- Phyllis Schlafly, Part 1

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the life and times of Phyllis Schlafly -- the far-right firebrand who brought down an amendment and arguab...

Episode 93 -- Project 1933, Part VI: August 1 - August 31

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 91 -- The Mailbag Episode, Part 1

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's taken us forever to do this, but here it is at last: In Bed With the Right's first ever mailbag episode! We asked our Patreon supporters to send ...

Episode 89: IQ Fetishism with Quinn Slobodian

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek's Bastards, and the forthcoming Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed) walks Moira and Adrian throu...

Episode 88 -- Project 1933, Part V: July 1 - July 31

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 87: The Epstein Files with Patrick Blanchfield

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

2025's strangest scandal involves facts that have been known for years and absolutely no new information. And yet it has managed to keep consummate bu...

Episode 85: The Moonies

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira walks Adrian through the long, twisty story of the Moonies -- a story that, somewhat improbably, brings together North Korea, the Hudson Valley,...

From behind the Paywall: Episode 51: The George Circle

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We first recorded this episode -- on the gaggle of bizarre right-wing cranks around the German poet Stefan George (1868 - 1933) -- for IBTWR's Patreon...

Episode 82 -- Project 1933, Part IV: June 1 to June 30

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 81: MLM Nation with Bridget Read

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Bridget Read talks with Moira and Adrian about the most American of scams, the multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme. Companies like Amway, Ma...

Episode 78 -- Project 1933, Part III: May 1 to May 31

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 77: San Francisco

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via...

Episode 76: Depp v. Heard with Kat Tenbarge

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by journalist Kat Tenbarge for a look back at the media spectacle that was actor Johnny Depp's April/May ...

Episode 74: The Trustees (with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd)

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you been enjoying stories about all-powerful student activist groups shutting down vigorous debate on college campuses? Of the insidious cabals o...

Episode 73 -- Roy Cohn with Matt Sitman (Part 2)

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The second part of Moira and Adrian's long conversation with Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy on Roy Cohn -- lawyer to various deplorables, closet case ...

Episode 71 -- Roy Cohn with Matt Sitman (Part 1)

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy to discuss the life of Roy Cohn -- lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire. Th...

Episode 70 -- Project 1933, Part II: March 15 to April 15

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did t...

Episode 68 -- Republican Makeup with Jessica DeFino

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the protagonists of MAGA world, they -- like Roxette circa 1990 -- have THE LOOK. You know the one: hair that rises and crests like a...

Episode 67 -- Project 1933, Part I: January to March 15

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Germany 1933 is having a bit of a moment. Which made us at In Bed with the Right decide to explore that year in detail. In this series, Adrian and Moi...

Episode 65 -- "So Long, Pamela Paul" with Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri of If Books Could Kill visit In Bed with the Right to talk about the life, times and very, very milquetoast opinion...

Episode 64: Whither the Preachers? With Kristin Kobes Du Mez

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian welcome historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Jesus and John Wayne) to talk about what happens to conservative "preacher" masculinity in th...

Episode 62: AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic with Roland Meyer

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why have our new right-wing overlords taken such a shine to chintzy, shiny AI slop? What is persuasive about these phony, artless, slightly desperate ...

Episode 60: Emergency Episode: The German Elections

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Germany voted for a new parliament last Sunday, and if you weren't ready for the words "far right" "Germany" and "20% of the vote" to pop up on your d...

Episode 58: The Pelicot Trial with Manon Garcia

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TW: This episode is almost entirely about a horrifying case of sustained and organized rape. On December 19, 2024 a court in Avignon, France convicte...

Episode 57: Mark Zuckerberg

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian delve into the career and political trajectory of Mark Zuckerberg. From Facemash to The Facebook to the Metaverse to putting on an ab...

Episode 55: Emergency Episode: Mark Joseph Stern on Executive Action

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump is issuing executive orders faster than people seem to be able to metabolize what's happening. And many of them have to do with gender, s...

Episode 53: The Moynihan Report

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Moynihan Report (1965) written by later New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) is an important document in the backlash against the ...

Episode 50: The Second Annual Cursties, Part II

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In what is already being described as a Festivus miracle, we present you -- at long last! -- the second part of the Second Annual Cursties! It's Moira...

Episode 49: The Second Annual Cursties, Part I

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024's hottest awards show is THE SECOND ANNUAL CURSTIES. Conjured up by Adrian, Moira and special returning guest Michael Hobbes, this all-gay gabfes...

Episode 47: Trans Kids

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira walks Adrian through the right wing fixation on trans kids and the way it is reshaping our politics. In early December, the US Supreme Court hea...

Episode 46: Live from City Lights Books it's THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in September, Adrian and Moira did an event at San Francisco's legendary City Lights Bookstore for an event launching Adrian's new book The Cance...

Episode 44: So You Want to be a Right-Wing Grifter... with Matt Bernstein

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a special holiday treat, podcaster extraordinaire Matt Bernstein (A Bit Fruity) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about the right wing grift machine. ...

Episode 42: 2024 Election Debrief, Part I

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian delve reluctantly into the horror, the horror -- aka the results of the 2024 presidential election. We didn't realize it when we reco...

Episode 41: George Gilder and the Birth of Right-Wing Silicon Valley

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stanford researcher Becca Lewis talks Moira and Adrian through the life and influence of George Gilder, who started out as a standard anti-feminist an...

A Very Special Announcement from In Bed With the Right

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Bed With the Right has an announcement: the show is coming to Patreon! You can sign up for extra content (2 episodes per month!) here! But our main...

Episode 39: The Meme Wars with Morgan Sung

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Morgan Sung (who hosts the terrific podcast Close All Tabs ) talks Moira and Adrian through the memes, stan armies, influencers, hatewatche...

Episode 38: The 2024 Election

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hey, did you know there's an election coming up? And that gender might have something to do with the outcome? In this special emergency episode (recor...

Episode 37: We Need to Talk About Usha

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian talk with New York writer and CNN contributor Irin Carmon about Usha Vance and the liberal-coded women in the orbit of the various MA...

Episode 36: Jordan Carroll on Science Fiction and the Alt Right

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Carroll, author of the new book Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (which you can buy here) walks Moira and Adrian throug...

Episode 35: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right's View of Marriage/Parenting

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Author Talia Lavin (whose Wild Faith is out on 10/15/24) talks Moira and Adrian through the Christian Right's takeover of American life, through objec...

Episode 34: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian grab their Stanley cup and identical hair extensions to follow guest Kate Kelly into the reality show phenomenon "The Secret Lives of...

Episode 33: The VP Debate

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's debate night in America, and you know what that means: MASCULINITY THUNDERDOME! In this special emergency episode, Moira and Adrian discuss the d...

Episode 32: In-Vitro Fertilization

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira talks Adrian through the latest fissure in the war on reproductive freedom: in-vitro fertilzation! A fixation of conservative Protestants and th...

Episode 31: Pro-Natalism

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of In Bed With The Right, Moira walks Adrian through the long, creepy history of pro-natalism, and its resurgence amongst conservative...

Episode 30: The Olympic Games (of Gender Panic)

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of the Olympic Games in Paris and of the way conservatives seem intent to freak out about them almost daily, Adrian walks Moira through the v...

Episode 29: Harris

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In another emergency episode in a veritable era of emergencies, Adrian and Moira discuss the gender politics surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris'...

Episode 28: Richard Wagner: Act III

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker and author of the book ‘Wagnerism’ joins Moira and Adrian to talk about Siegfried, the Wagner clan, and...

Episode 27: Biden

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian talk about Joe Biden's campaign, about the age question and the fallout from the calamitous presidential debate. NOTE: We recorded th...

Episode 26: J.D. Vance with Gabe Winant

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a special emergency episode, Moira and Adrian talk with historian Gabe Winant about J.D. Vance, Donald Trump's pick for vice president. Gender, cla...

Episode 25: Richard Wagner: Act II

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian and Moira return for another episode on the life and works of Richard Wagner, investigating the radical political/philosophical influences that...

Episode 24: LIVE SHOW Anita Bryant with Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this live show, Moira and Adrian blinking step into the big world and come face to face with other human beings! Specifically Sarah Marshall of th...

Episode 23: RFK Jr.

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira walks Adrian through the strange, tragic, enraging life of RFK Jr.—vaccine skeptic, presidential candidate, and literal brain worm survivor. A...

Episode 22: Richard Wagner: Act I

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian leads Moira through the life and career of composer Richard Wagner—a not-so-great man with some of world history's worst fans. Aesthetics, po...

Episode 21: "The Campus" in the American Imagination with Samuel Catlin

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Samuel Catlin (University at Buffalo) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about "The Campus" -- about the peculiar mental image Americans seem to have, how...

Episode 20: Conservatism's Daddy Issues

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian speak to political scientist Jeff Dudas about his 2017 book Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism. The conversatio...

Episode 19: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Moira and Adrian delve into Judith Butler's latest book -- about the worldwide movement against "gender" and the role it plays in rig...

Episode 18: Trad Wives

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moira guides Adrian through the strange, troubling world of tradwifery -- the latest trend in butter-churning, vaguely religious gender conservatism t...

Episode 17: Otto Weininger, or Gender and Anti-Semitism

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian takes Moira into the wild, wildly misogynist and deeply depressing world of Otto Weininger (1880-1903). A posterchild for all manner of fin-de-...

Episode 16: Kate Manne on Anti-Fatness

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Philosopher Kate Manne (Down Girl, Entitled) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about the politics of anti-fatness – where fatphobia came from historica...

Episode 15: Taylor Swift

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Follow Adrian following Moira following various conservative pundits down what is already shaping up to be one of 2024 weirder rabbit holes: the Great...

Episode 14: Prisoner of Sex – Norman Mailer vs. Kate Millett and Women

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In her 1970 book “Sexual Politics” feminist critic Kate Millett devoted 20 pages to a critique of novelist and public intellectual Norman Mailer. ...

Episode 13: The Cursties with Michael Hobbes

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

2023 was a year rich in truly cursed discourses, In Bed With the Right has already analyzed many of them. In this episode — our first annual CURSTIE...

Episode 12: The Morehouse Man with Saida Grundy

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Morehouse College in Atlanta remains one of the most elite HBCUs. As Prof. Saida Grundy argues, t...

Episode 11: Homocons

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Together with their guest, historian Samuel Hueneke, Moira and Adrian delve into the history of the homocons. Gay (and sometimes, very sometimes, lesb...

Episode 10: Nietzsche and his Heirs

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Moira and Adrian continue their earlier discussion of the thought and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche — morality and the critique of metaphysics, a...

Episode 9: Marriage Boosters with Rebecca Traister

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Every few years, it seems, a set of academics and pundits discovers marriage as a panacea for a host of social ills — poverty, unhappiness, social c...