Last Born In The Wilderness

Last Born In The Wilderness episodes:

• 04.27.2024

  Chris Christou: The Consequences Of Hypermobility

  This is a segment of episode 362 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Tourism Is A Prism: Cultural Homelessness & The Consequences Of Hypermobility w/ Chris Christou.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/chris-christou Learn more about The End of Tourism and...

  
• 04.26.2024

  #363 | The Jail Is Everywhere w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Jack Norton

  Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the preeminent...

  
• 04.20.2024

  TEASER: The Jail Is Everywhere w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Jack Norton

  Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Eleanor Goldfield: Diversifying Tactics To Defend The Sacred

  This is a segment of episode 361 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “To The Trees: Diversifying Tactics To Defend The Sacred w/ Eleanor Goldfield.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eleanor-goldfield Learn more about To The Trees and how to watch:...

  
• 04.08.2024

  #362 | Tourism Is A Prism w/ Chris Christou

  Chris Christou joins me in this winding discussion to explore the subjects and themes raised in his phenomenal podcast, The End of Tourism, described as “a project about the deep causes and consequences of tourism, wanderlust, spectacle, exile,” and “an invitation...

  
• 03.30.2024

  TEASER: Tourism Is A Prism w/ Chris Christou

  Chris Christou joins me in this winding discussion to explore the subjects and themes raised in his phenomenal podcast, The End of Tourism, described as “a project about the deep causes and consequences of tourism, wanderlust, spectacle, exile,” as well as...

  
• 03.23.2024

  Nate Bear: Plague As A Process, Not An Event

  This is a segment of episode 360 “A Hundred Years Of Covid: Plague As A Process, Not An Event w/ Nate Bear.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-bear Subscribe to Nate Bear’s newsletter, Do Not Panic!: https://www.donotpanic.news Social critic and writer Nate...

  
• 03.22.2024

  #361 | To The Trees w/ Eleanor Goldfield

  Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins me to discuss her documentary To the Trees, which documents humankind’s relationship to the sacred Redwoods and the tactics tree defenders use to protect old-growth forests from the clear-cutting practices of the lumber industry....

  
• 03.08.2024

  TEASER: To The Trees w/ Eleanor Goldfield

  Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins me to discuss her documentary To the Trees, which documents the sacred Redwoods and the tactics tree defenders use to protect old-growth forests from the clear-cutting practices of the lumber industry. In our discussion,...

  
• 02.24.2024

  #360 | A Hundred Years Of Covid w/ Nate Bear

  Social critic and writer Nate Bear joins me to discuss his work over the years communicating his insights into the intersections between the ongoing pandemic, human-caused climate disruption, and biospheric collapse. Nate describes how the abandonment of the population to...

  
• 02.16.2024

  TEASER: A Hundred Years Of Covid w/ Nate Bear

  Social critic and writer Nate Bear joins me to discuss his work over the years communicating his insights into the intersections between the ongoing pandemic, human-caused climate disruption, and biospheric collapse. Nate communicates how the abandonment of the population to...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Margaret Killjoy: Writing The Ambiguous Utopia

  This is a segment of episode 357 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ambiguous Utopia: Fiction, History, & Hope In A Dying World w/ Margaret Killjoy.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/margaret-killjoy-2 Learn more about Margaret’s work: https://linktr.ee/margaretkilljoy Fiction, as Margaret...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Eliot Jacobson: Climate Data, Doomerism, & Deceptive Expectations

  This is a segment of episode 356 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Off The Charts: Climate Data, Doomerism, & Deceptive Expectations w/ Eliot Jacobson.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eliot-jacobson Learn more about Eliot Jacobson’s work: https://climatecasino.net Climate science communicators like...

  
• 02.05.2024

  Abby Martin: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth

  This is a segment of episode 359 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth w/ Abby Martin.” Listen to the full interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/abby-martin Learn more about Earth’s Greatest Enemy: https://earthsgreatestenemy.com Independent journalist...

  
• 02.03.2024

  Linda & Stephanie: LCAP Fights Back

  This is a segment of episode 358 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Declare Long Covid A National Emergency: “Moonshot Kills” w/ Long Covid Action Project.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lcap-activists Learn more about the Long Covid Action Project and...

  
• 02.02.2024

  Abby Martin: There Are Many Ways To Assassinate A Journalist

  This is a segment of episode 359 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth w/ Abby Martin.” Listen to the full interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/abby-martin In this segment of my interview with independent...

  
• 01.27.2024

  #359 | Earth’s Greatest Enemy w/ Abby Martin

  Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin joins me to discuss Earth's Greatest Enemy, a feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military. I ask Abby...

  
• 01.25.2024

  #358 | Declare Long Covid A National Emergency w/ Long Covid Action Project

  Long Covid Action Project [LCAP] activists Stephanie and Linda, along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, join me in this impromptu interview to discuss the recent direct action Linda and Stephanie participated in at the Senate HELP Committee Hearing...

  
• 01.15.2024

  #357 | The Ambiguous Utopia w/ Margaret Killjoy

  Anarchist writer, musician, and podcaster Margaret Killjoy returns to the podcast to discuss the political act of writing fiction and imagining the “ambiguous utopia.” I ask Margaret to define what hope is or can be, and how her work communicating...

  
• 01.10.2024

  TEASER: Earth's Greatest Enemy w/ Abby Martin

  Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin joins me to discuss Earth's Greatest Enemy, a feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military. Listen to the full...

  
• 01.06.2024

  #356 | Off The Charts w/ Eliot Jacobson

  Eliot Jacobson—climate science communicator and “know-it-all doomer”—joins me to discuss his eclectic background, why climate change data in 2023 was off the charts, and what it means to be a doomer at his stage of climate and ecological breakdown. Eliot Jacobson,...

  
• 01.05.2024

  Rashid Khalidi: The Ongoing Nakba & US Complicity

  This is a segment of 355 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ongoing Nakba: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rashid-khalidi Purchase a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine at...

  
• 01.04.2024

  Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian Identity Formation & The Hundred Years' War

  This is a segment of 355 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ongoing Nakba: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rashid-khalidi Purchase a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine at...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Betsy Gaines Quammen: Myth & Mending In The American West

  This is a segment of episode 354 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “True West: Myth & Mending In The American West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/betsy-gaines-quammen-2 Purchase a copy of True West from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3TjfJfM Historian...

  
• 12.24.2023

  TEASER: The Ambiguous Utopia w/ Margaret Killjoy [UNLOCKED]

  UNLOCKED: Anarchist writer, musician, and podcaster Margaret Killjoy returns to the podcast to discuss the political act of writing fiction and imagining the “ambiguous utopia”—à la Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed and Killjoy’s A Country of Ghosts. I ask Margaret to...

  
• 12.23.2023

  #355 | The Ongoing Nakba w/ Rashid Khalidi

  Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khalidi weaves his multigenerational familial roots to historic Palestine with decades of academic...

  
• 12.21.2023

  TEASER: The Ongoing Nakba w/ Rashid Khalidi

  Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khalidi weaves his multigenerational familial roots to historic Palestine with decades of academic scholarship...

  
• 12.12.2023

  Shane Burley: Antisemitic Zionism

  This is a segment of episode 353 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “A Nation For A Nation: Full-Scale Revenge; Antisemitic Zionism w/ Shane Burley.” Listen to the two-part episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/shane-burley-5 Read Shane’s article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking...

  
• 12.12.2023

  #354 | True West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen

  Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen...

  
• 12.03.2023

  TEASER: Off The Charts w/ Eliot Jacobson

  Eliot Jacobson—climate science communicator and “know-it-all doomer”—joins me to discuss his eclectic background, climate change data, how and why 2023 was off the charts, and what it means to be a doomer. Support the podcast and listen to this interview before...

  
• 11.12.2023

  #353 Part Two | A Nation For A Nation: Antisemitic Zionism w/ Shane Burley

  In the second part of my two-part interview with author and journalist Shane Burley, we continue our discussion about the contexts that underlie the dramatic escalation of violence by the State of Israel in the Palestinian territories since Hamas’s October...

  
• 11.10.2023

  #353 Part One | A Nation For A Nation: Full-Scale Revenge w/ Shane Burley

  Journalist and author Shane Burley returns to the podcast to discuss his article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself, published by Religion Dispatches. He addresses historical traumas and...

  
• 11.07.2023

  Arun Gupta: The Horizons Beyond Food Production Under Capitalism

  This is a segment of episode 352 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Bananas For Socialism: The Horizons Beyond Food Production Under Capitalism w/ Arun Gupta.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/arun-gupta-3 Read Arun’s article Bananas for Socialism at Dissent Magazine,...

  
• 11.05.2023

  TEASER: A Nation For A Nation w/ Shane Burley

  Journalist and author Shane Burley returns to the podcast to discuss his article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself, published by Religion Dispatches. He addresses historical traumas and...

  
• 10.28.2023

  TEASER: True West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen

  Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen...

  
• 10.23.2023

  #352 | Bananas For Socialism w/ Arun Gupta

  In this expansive discussion, investigative journalist and food columnist Arun Gupta tackles the extremely online drama between "progrowth" and "degrowth" leftists about one of the cheapest fruits you can find in the supermarket: the banana. Will we have bananas under...

  
• 10.11.2023

  TEASER: Bananas For Socialism w/ Arun Gupta

  In this expansive discussion, investigative journalist and food columnist Arun Gupta tackles the extremely online drama between "progrowth" and "degrowth" leftists about one of the cheapest fruits you can find in the supermarket: the banana. Will we have bananas under...

  
• 10.08.2023

  Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw: Nature's Way Of Raising Children

  This is a segment of episode 351 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way Of Raising Children w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/narvaez-bradshaw Purchase a copy of The Evolved Nest from...

  
• 09.26.2023

  #351 | The Evolved Nest w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw

  Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities published by North Atlantic Books. G. A. Bradshaw, PhD, is the founder and...

  
• 09.19.2023

  TEASER: The Evolved Nest w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw

  Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

  
• 09.03.2023

  John Vaillant: The Petrocene & The Making Of A Beast

  This is a segment of episode 350 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Fire Weather: The Petrocene & The Making Of A Beast w/ John Vaillant.” Listen to the full episode and read the transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/john-vaillant Purchase a copy of Fire...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Jonathan Howard: Contrarian Doctors & The Failed Quest For Herd Immunity

  This is a segment of episode 349 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “We Want Them Infected: Contrarian Doctors & The Failed Quest For Herd Immunity w/ Jonathan Howard.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/jonathan-howard Learn more about and purchase We...

  
• 08.11.2023

  #350 | Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

  Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Fire Weather is an astounding chronicle of the boreal fire that swept...

  
• 08.06.2023

  TEASER: Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

  Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss 'Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast', a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

  
• 08.04.2023

  Cara Wall-Scheffler: Human Locomotion & The Diversity Of Foraging Societies

  This is a segment of episode 348 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Myth Of Man The Hunter: Human Locomotion & The Diversity Of Foraging Societies w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cara-wall-scheffler Read ‘The Myth of Man...

  
• 07.28.2023

  #349 | We Want Them Infected w/ Jonathan Howard

  Jonathan Howard MD joins me to discuss his timely book, 'We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID', published by Redhawk Publications. As...

  
• 07.24.2023

  #348 | The Myth Of Man The Hunter w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler

  Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, 'The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt...

  
• 05.19.2023

  Nate Holdren: Social Murder, Depoliticization, & Finding The Common We

  This is a segment of episode 347 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Broken Sociality: Isolation, Social Murder, & The Process Of Depoliticization w/ Nate Holdren." Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-holdren Read ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic...

  
• 05.12.2023

  #347 | Broken Sociality w/ Nate Holdren

  Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay 'Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic...

  
• 05.09.2023

  Matthew Remski: The Self Project & How The Apolitical Is Political

  This is a segment of episode 346 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Disaster Spirituality: The Self Project & How The Apolitical Is Political w/ Matthew Remski.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-2 Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became...