Episodes

  • The Rationality Wars #2: The (ir)Rational Rainbow

    The Rationality Wars #2: The (ir)Rational Rainbow
    Jul 2 2024
    The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of gays and lesbians fought back. But in the process, who did they leave behind?
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • The Rationality Wars #1: The (ir)Rational Mob

    The Rationality Wars #1: The (ir)Rational Mob
    Jun 24 2024
    Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it last?
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    53 mins
  • Introducing: The Rational Wars (Series Trailer)

    Introducing: The Rational Wars (Series Trailer)
    Jun 17 2024
    This week, we play a trailer to introduce our new series, the Rationality Wars. The Rationality Wars tells stories about the political and intellectual battles to define rationality and irrationality.
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    5 mins
  • EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)

    EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)
    Oct 6 2023
    There's a story you can tell about the post-Occupy left gravitating towards a more state-oriented kind of politics. However, this misses strong autonomous and anarchist-inflected social movements. In this episode, we examine the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing, including the Kurds within the area formerly known as Rojava.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)

    EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)
    Aug 29 2023
    Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing -- personal revelation, cosmic oneness, spiritual enlightenment, whatever people have called it -- and make it just another commodity? We look at the deep rifts in and around psychedelic medicine, as different camps vie for the future of these drugs.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)

    EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)
    Jul 24 2023
    The WEF is yet another example of the scrambled ideologues of our moment. Conservatives condemn the WEF, and news organizations like Rebel cover it doggedly; at the same time, left-leaning NGOs speak there, and progressive news organizations say little. On this episode, we examine the shifting politics around our global financial elites.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder

    EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
    Jul 10 2023
    What's safer than baby powder? Parents have been using it for over 100 years to powder their baby's bottoms, and they've found one brand especially trustworthy: Johnson & Johnson. Yet, numerous studies have revealed the presence of trace amounts of asbestos in this talc-based powder.
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    55 mins
  • EP81: Introducing Academic Edgelords & Reading the Unabomber

    EP81: Introducing Academic Edgelords & Reading the Unabomber
    Jun 28 2023
    We're excited to announce Academic Edgelords. This is a scholarly podcast about scholarly provocateurs. Gadflys, charlatans, and shitposters sometimes get tenure, believe it or not. This is a leftist podcast that takes a second look at their peer-reviewed work, and tries to see if there’s anything we might learn from arguing with them. We start with the ultimate academic edglelord: Ted Kacynski, the domestic terrorist.
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    1 hr and 13 mins