But the parents? Meh. 

When fascism rises, and some young people are drawn into its orbit, because everyone from Jordan Peterson to Andrew Tate has figured out how to exploit resentment at the failures of capitalism, we have an opportunity to give our kids a lot more than moralistic calls for a return to normalcy, compliance, warnings about screen time, striving to be better students, doing more sports, and not making too much of a ruckus (as Marco Rubio calls it). 

The kind of parenting that limits itself to restoring the status quo for younger people in an age of fascism is not engaged parenting. 

It’s not enough to be a good boy or girl. Antifascism takes more than that.

In this Part One, Matthew previews our main feed discussion of Adolescence (coming this Thursday), parses a speech by Gareth Southgate, wonders why Jonathan Haidt knows nothing about gaming, and remembers Sophie Scholl. 

Show Notes

Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions 

Death toll since Israel's aggression on Gaza on October 7 rises to 31,819 (March, 2024) 

Austerity Has Always Been a Project to Empower Capital at the Expense of Workers 

It's Not Them; It's Us: Thoughts on the Show Adolescence

Adolescence is a really well made depiction of misogyny that fails to critique it | by Mallory Moore | Mar, 2025

Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Taps Into the Latest Moral Panic   

Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers | Techdirt 

UK government's own estimate says welfare cuts to push 250,000 into poverty | Reuters

Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show – Disability News Service

55: Games Against Humanity (w/ Thi Nguyen) — Conspirituality

207: Gaming Realities (w/Thi Nguyen) — Conspirituality  

Reminder to the media: Research video games before reporting on them 

Out of the Ruins:The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces

Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader 

The People's Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State  

Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work

Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom

TRUST KIDS! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

Refusing Complicity: The Bravery of Sophie Scholl - Radical Tea Towel

Sophie Scholl and the youth resistance against the Nazis – DW – 02/22/2023

The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds 

An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music 

The politics of The Sound of Music | Peter Levine 

Edelweiss Pirate Walter Mayer

The Edelweiss Pirates: A Story of Freedom, Love and Life

Walter Meyer describes his 1943 trial for looting, and the impact of his role in the Edelweiss Pirates on the sentence he received | Holocaust Encyclopedia

The Edelweiss Pirates

The Child and Its Enemies | The Anarchist Library —Emma Goldman

DECLARATION OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS—Janusz Korczak 

The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak - Betty Jean Lifton

Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

Remember the Mac-Paps - rabble.ca 

The Canadians In The Spanish Civil War 

'Gentleman Jules' lived for just causes | Sudbury Star 

Poetry – Friends and Veterans

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