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Donald Ray Reynolds, Jr. - a young black Knoxvillian with no prior trouble with the law, who owned four small businesses and possessed a Tennessee open-carry permit - has now spent a decade of a remarkable life + 75 year sentence in a controversial Bureau of Prisons Communication Management Unit in Knoxville, Tennessee: institutions set up in the George W. Bush years to house accused terrorists. New Right journalist and friend of The Popular Show, J. Arthur Bloom has been researching Reynolds' case, and sets out for us the spine-tingling evidence that Donny is in fact being detained for turning down the offer to act as an informant on Mexican cartels, in a case remarkably similar to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal of the Obama years. Support us, get extra content, and help us build the project, at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. 

Originally exclusive to our Patrons. PLEASE consider helping us grow the project by subscribing in 2022! The Great Barrington Declaration, calling for an end to lockdowns and a new regime of targeted care was published in October 2020, and immediately tarred as a byword for libertarian callousness and pseudoscience. We spoke to one of its authors, Sunetra Gupta (professor of theoretical epidemiology, University of Oxford) and a prominent signatory, Carl Heneghan (director of the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine), about their contribution to debates around non-pharmaceutical interventions, where the mainstream consensus on the pandemic has gone wrong, and the misconceptions about their personal politics and funding. Prof Gupta and Prof Heneghan also give THEIR FIRST description of the notorious summit with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, which allegedly resulted in the UK's refusal of a 'circuit breaker' lockdown in Autumn 2020.

pt.4 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Daniel Briggs teaches at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and is co-author of Lockdown: Social Harm in the COVID-19 Era. In this new instalment of our 'COVID critical' miniseries, Daniel and James discuss the under-publicised harms of lockdown policies, the two models of neoliberalism defended by pro and anti lockdown parties, and Daniel's forthcoming study of Europe's anti-vaccine movement.

pt.3 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.Tara McCormack teaches International Relations at the University of Leicester and is an expert in the theory of the state. In 2018, she was attacked on the front page of the Times for her critique Britain's role in Syria. In this interview, Tara argues that the COVID-19 response reflects a 'coming home' of dynamics formerly only associated with foreign policy, as well as a decline and an attempt to renew the power of state.

This is part of mini-series speaking to COVID critical academics. Please consider supporting our work at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for subscribers-only bonus episodes. 

pt.2 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Vaccine mandates and the threat of new lockdowns come to the UK, to the backdrop of new and increasingly authoritarian measures across Europe and in parts of the US. The Popular Show is spending the run-up to Christmas speaking to academics about under-publicised negative effects of previous and existing measures, starting with the effect of lockdowns on the young. Dr Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies) and Professor Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham, Self-Harm Research Group) join us to speak about the prospects of the 'Corona Generation'. SUPPORT OUR WORK at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Patrons get early access to our hottest episodes as well as regular Patrons-only bonus episodes like this and this!

Marxism with Twink characteristics is the theme of our Christmas party (Omicron permitting), as we're reunited with Sam & Gian from the cult TWINK REVOLUTION podcast, plus writer and honorary twink River Page. Itinerary for pt.1: COVD culture in Wisconsin and the South * from Coke Zero to Zero COVID * elites go woke * reviewing progressive baby books... don't miss our Patreon pt.2 AFTERPARTY! on The New Left and the CIA * Do universities reproduce elites? * Biden’s imperialism * the Compatible Left vs Assange, Corbyn and Glenn!

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pt.1 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to the entire series, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. As lockdowns for the unvaccinated spread across Europe, we sat with Thomas Fazi ('Reclaiming the State') and Toby Green ('The COVID Consensus') for a dissenting look at COVID containment measures over the past 20 months, and to discuss what a prospectus for a COVID critical Left could look like.

This is part 1 of a special episode bringing together voices from across the political spectrum who share a positive vision for Britain outside the European Union. Part 2. MAD LADS OF LEXIT, continues the discussion with David Jamieson and Joe Guinan, and is available to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Subscribers already got the unedited interview with John Redwood when it was recorded in October. The BAD BOYS are: Sir John Redwood, MP, head of Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, and a longstanding Eurosceptic of the Tory Right. David Jamieson, a Scottish Marxist, co-host of Contercast, and a rare supporter both of Brexit and Scottish Independence. And Joe Guinan, Vice President of the Democracy Collaborative Think Tank and a key contributor to the economic policies of Jeremy Corbyn.

As the Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict was announced, David and James sat down to discuss the FOUR FALLACIES of the panicked left-liberal response to the case: 1. that it is the court's function to adjudicate between political ideologies, 2. that courtroom decisions determine the moral character of perpetrators or victims, 3. that 'imagine a black man did this' is a progressive argument, and 4. that a not guilty verdict is a license to future fascist violence. Help us keep having the toughest conversations on the left. SUBSCRIBE at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for regular bonus episodes.