Episodios

  • Hyperfixed - Third Eye Blind

    Hyperfixed - Third Eye Blind
    Nov 27 2025
    Danny speaks with Alex Goldman about his new podcast ⁠Hyperfixed⁠, in which he works to get to the bottom of listeners’ complex problems, or at least enough of an explanation that they’re ok with the annoyance. We have then provided the full episode of “Third Eye Blind,” where one Mitchell finds out he's missing something almost everyone else has, and he wants to know -- who would I be if I had it? If you like what you hear, why not support Alex and ⁠join Hyperfixed⁠? Otherwise, have a great holiday, and keep your eyes peeled for the second episode of ⁠Chinese Prestige⁠ on the AP feed tomorrow!
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    42 m
  • Chinese Prestige: From May Fourth to Mao w/ Yidi Wu

    Chinese Prestige: From May Fourth to Mao w/ Yidi Wu
    Nov 25 2025
    In lieu of a typical Tuesday episode this week, we are releasing the first episode of our new miniseries Chinese Prestige. Annual subscribers already have access, while everyone else can get the 8 episodes for a whopping $5 for two weeks only. Enjoy! In this first episode of Chinese Prestige, Yidi, Danny, and Derek trace the origins of the Chinese Communist Party from the May Fourth Movement to the civil war with the Nationalists. They explore the party’s strategic shift from cities to the countryside, the role of land reform and mass mobilization, the impact of the Japanese invasion and World War II, and the rise of Mao Zedong. The episode follows the party through its victory in 1949, the founding of the People’s Republic of China, early state-building, and China’s entry into the Korean War. The group concludes in 1953 with the launch of the first five-year plan and its push for rapid industrial development. Theme music by Jake Aron, based on the song “The East is Red.”
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    56 m
  • Special - Radio War Nerd in Print! w/ Mark Ames

    Special - Radio War Nerd in Print! w/ Mark Ames
    Nov 24 2025
    Mark Ames of Radio War Nerd is on the program to tell us a little about the new book penned by his partner in podcast crime, John Dolan, titled They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War.
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    20 m
  • Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ David Klion (Preview)

    Bonus - Liberal Zionism After Gaza w/ David Klion (Preview)
    Nov 23 2025
    Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all of our bonus Danny and Derek speak with writer and editor David Klion about the collapse of the liberal Zionist project and how the moral and political implication of the Gaza genocide have reshaped American Jewish identity. They discuss how October 7 and Israel’s assault on Gaza forced a reckoning among liberals who once believed in the two-state promise; the fracturing of institutional life and why so many public figures have avoided accountability; the generational realignment in American Judaism; legacy news organizations managing and obscuring this shift; x and also Barry Weiss’s rise to CBS and what it tells us about the future of American media. Read David’s piece in The Nation, “To Those Who Have Just Awakened to the Horrors in Gaza.”
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    11 m
  • What Was Sarah Hurwitz Thinking? w/ Emily Tamkin (Preview)

    What Was Sarah Hurwitz Thinking? w/ Emily Tamkin (Preview)
    Nov 22 2025
    Subscribe now to listen to the full episode. Danny and Derek are joined by the writer ⁠Emily Tamkin⁠ to discuss Sarah Hurwitz’s comments on the Holocaust, education, and the Jewish people.
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    6 m
  • News - MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza

    News - MBS White House Visit, US Pushes New Ukraine Deal, UN Votes on Gaza
    Nov 21 2025
    Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. 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); the U.S. pushes a new Ukraine peace deal (8:58); Israel continues killing people in Gaza (12:30), Palestinians’ shelters are failing in heavy rain (13:57), the UN votes on Trump’s Gaza plan (15:22), and Palestinians seeking relief are put on flights to South Africa, raising ethnic cleansing concerns (18:11); Israel continues to bomb and move borders in Lebanon and Syria (21:50); the U.S. and South Korea agree on a nuclear submarine deal (25:21); an attack on a church in Nigeria draws international attention (27:46); the DRC and M23 sign a new peace framework (29:53); an elections update for Chile (31:17) and Ecuador (33:03); Trump reopens a backchannel to Venezuela (34:47); and an update on Operation Southern Spear (38:14).
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    44 m
  • E335 - Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi

    E335 - Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi
    Nov 18 2025
    Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek speak with political theorist and author Lea Ypi about her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which explores how personal memory intersects with imperial collapse, nationalism, and the surveillance state. They discuss her grandmother’s journey from Ottoman Salonika to Albania amid the rise of competing political projects; archives and the stories they erase; the challenge for universalist ideals in a capitalist world; the parallels between the 1930s and today’s anti-migrant politics; and whether collective political action remains possible as we’re shaped by platforms, algorithms, and anonymous economic power.
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  • Bonus - The Trump Tariff Order and the Future of U.S. Influence w/ Nicholas Mulder

    Bonus - The Trump Tariff Order and the Future of U.S. Influence w/ Nicholas Mulder
    Nov 16 2025
    Danny and Derek welcome back historian Nick Mulder, writer at Weltinnenpolitik, to discuss Trump’s new tariff regime. They get into Trump’s focus on taxing goods while leaving finance untouched; how U.S. allies are obediently eating higher economic costs; why this approach resembles a “subscription model” of empire rather than a coherent industrial strategy; early signs of backlash in places like India, Brazil, and Europe; how immigration enforcement and H-1B restrictions now operate as tools of economic coercion; and why sanctions under Trump increasingly fall on partners instead of adversaries.
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    11 m