writer | podcaster | sound artist | maker | educator
writer | podcaster | sound artist | maker | educator
This episode introduces Exhibits. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) stages the architecture of visible cruelty. A fugitive arrives. The town agrees to hide her, on terms. The terms continue to grow: refuge becomes labor, labor becomes ownership. By the end,…
“Liberalism” does heavy lifting in describing American politics and gets used in incompatible ways. After all, the mainstream of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the 20th century were committed to liberalism. This episode defines “it “liberalism” through what…
Republicans Blamed Trans People and Iran to Protect Fascists A Nazi manifesto should be enough. The San Diego mosque attackers told the world what they were: Nazis, Hitler fans, Great Replacement conspiracy believers, fascists who wanted Muslims dead. Fox News…
AVAILABLE SOON ON PATREON AND YOUTUBE Part 1 ended on a wager: if denial is obedience, the dead should be countable. Part 2 counts them. The episode provides an original comparative-mortality argument from peer-reviewed sources, built on the anti-vaxxer’s own…
AVAILABLE NOW ON PATREON – COMING SOON TO YOUTUBE Why do people on the right reject overwhelming scientific evidence and experience that rejection as freedom? Part 1 takes up vaccine refusal as the case where this question can be answered…
What does the Good Germans problem mean when the Good Germans are Americans? This episode examines one of the most durable moral lessons of the twentieth century and turns it toward the present. Not to flatten history, and not to…
Adjunct professors now make up the majority of instructional labor in U.S. higher education, but their working conditions remain largely invisible. This episode examines adjunctification not just as a labor practice, but as a process that shapes how people think,…
Back in 2021, I did an interview with “Against the Grain” on KPFA. I discussed my article, “Policing Race and Racing Police,” and the book I was working on at the time, later published as Race & Police in 2023 by Rutgers University Press.