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Taming the Wild: The Complex Story of Animal Domestication with Joy

The domestication of plants and animals represents one of the most profound transformations in our species' history—yet few of us understand how dramatically it has reshaped not just the organisms involved, but our entire planet's ecology. In t...

June 30, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 20 • 1:48:42

Liberal Socialism and the Challenge of Right-Wing Politics with Matt McManus

Professor Matthew McManus joins us to explore liberal socialism, the right's evolution, and the shifting global political landscape.• Carlo Rossellini's work articulates a socialism that confronts both Marxist determinism and fascism

June 23, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 19 • 1:20:51

From Dawn To Decadence, part 4: Aufheben's Decline of Theory

Capitalism's crisis theories reveal more about leftist political failures than economic reality, as deterministic approaches miss the cultural dimensions of decay while simultaneously failing to deliver the promised revolutionary outcomes.<...

June 16, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 19 • 2:06:23

The Poetry of Diasporic Memory with Ben Meyerson

Flamenco's haunting rhythms carry centuries of suppressed memories—the echoes of Spain's Jewish and Muslim communities, expelled and erased through centuries of ethnic cleansing. Yet somehow, these cultural memories persist through sound and ve...

June 09, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 18 • 1:43:06

End of Liberal Dreams with Nicolas Villarreal

The foundations of modern liberal democracy weren't forged in the ideals of freedom and equality alone, but in the disciplined halls of Prussian military academies. In this wide-ranging conversation, Nicolas Villarreal reveals how the professio...

June 02, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 17 • 3:32:54

Fan Mail

Hey there human-I-assume-is-on-the-other-side-of-this, I'm listening in from West Virginia and while I get a good doompilling when I listen in about the wider world, I'm wondering if there's a focus on the periphery i.e. in the rural areas or the rust belt specifically especially regarding farming in any past or upcoming episode. Passing references have been made to a "rural strategy" that should be adopted by either a movement or current political entity so it isn't left to rot like it currently is. Anything in the works that shines a light on my little corner of the world?

Wheeling, West Virginia

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