American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
Caitlin and Trent talk with Jonathan Howard, a neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of Everyone Else Is Lying to You and We Want Them Infected, both books analyzing the policies and discourses around the COVID-19 pandemic. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, and
Eleanor Roosevelt remains a striking example of the struggle against authoritarianism in dark times.
Nazism and the moral collapse of German Christendom.
What Liberal Currents is already doing for liberalism in this country, what we will continue to do.
The casualties of the war on research will mount for years.
Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inflicted when officers, agents, and soldiers engage in the inhumane and depraved acts that are demanded of them. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple,
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
Investing in a positive vision for a liberal future, rather than remaining in a defensive crouch on behalf of a liberal past.
Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of The State and the Soldier, as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. National Guard units are deployed in the streets; DHS rappels from Black Hawks onto civilian homes.
Sunstein’s book adopts a small-c conservative defensiveness that belies a now-requisite rejuvenating liberal imagination.
Epstein, elections, the shutdown, and more.