<p>I was invited to participate in a liberal talkspace on the web, and cancelled almost immediately. This led me deeper into an examination of the fascistic elements of illiberalism and performative fragility, on the left and right sides of the political spectrum.</p>

I was invited to participate in a liberal talkspace on the web, and cancelled almost immediately. This led me deeper into an examination of the fascistic elements of illiberalism and performative fragility, on the left and right sides of the political spectrum.

J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Groupthink, Newspeak, and me...

A podcast of essays and lively interviews featuring nuanced, civil discussion of interesting cultural and political topics.
We question why we believe what we believe, and what place the media and other social forces have in not only fostering those beliefs, but in framing our basic assumptions.

We are obsessed with injustice, irrationality, and with injecting some civility and tolerance back into civic discourse. To that end, questioning assumptions, slaughtering sacred cows, and calling out nude emperors is also a lot of what we do.

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A podcast of essays and lively interviews featuring nuanced, civil discussion of interesting cultural and political topics. We question why we believe what we believe, and what place the media and other social forces have in not only fostering those beliefs, but in framing our basic assumptions. We are obsessed with injustice, irrationality, and with injecting some civility and tolerance back into civic discourse. To that end, questioning assumptions, slaughtering sacred cows, and calling out nude emperors is also a lot of what we do.

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J.K. Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe, Groupthink, Newspeak, and me...