Trevor discusses the 2012 book Racecraft by Karen and Barbara Fields to explore the idea of what race means, how it is constructed by racism, it's historical contingency, and how we engage in mythical beliefs/practices about what race "is."
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Justin adds to Trevor's discussion in "Postmodern Fascism" and makes the argument Fascism is no foreigner in the US and describes political formations beyond Nazi Germany and Mussolini, and beyond Trump as well
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Justin covers the life of Eugene Debs from just after the election of 1912 to his arrest for speaking out against World War I in 1918.
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Trevor gives an introduction to some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and their implications for subjectivity, universality, ideology, and politics.
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Justin covers the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) including in depth analysis of the anti-trans genocidal language on display, Steve Bannon's ideological hold on Trumpism, how terrible Tulsi Gabbard is, and a look into Trump's foreign policy, domestic policy, and continuing grievance politics.
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Justin analyzes the Republican primary and the upcoming 2024 general election, largely from the perspective of Donald Trump and what he's been up to.
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Trevor theorizes about our modern moment of emergent fascism as states ban abortion and try to eliminate trans existence, its uniquely postmodern features, and how it relates to 20th-century fascism.
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Justin and Trevor are joined by Chel and Caitlin to talk about the growth and proliferation of conspiracy theories, which have pervaded social media, most notably Facebook and Instagram. We cover three academic articles that interrogate the spread of vaccine misinformation, new-age influencers, and private Facebook groups for new moms which have become sites of harmful "advice" and conspiracism.
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Justin discusses crime on a theoretical level, what it is presented as, and what it actually is.
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Justin and Britt discuss a spate of recent police killings, the need for an abolitionist response, and how some on the left fall short.
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Justin reflects on his two years serving as a public defender, how we are taught to think about crime as opposed to its everyday reality. He explores how criminalization is a process done to people to dehumanize and reinforce hierarchies of power, ultimately destroying lives and making us all less safe.
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Justin discusses how pointless the Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House vote fiasco is and was, a little bit on the coup attempt in Brazil and the ongoing fight over the courts in New York state.
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Sam Bankman-Fried posted perhaps the biggest bail ever posted and is now out of custody. However, most poor people are not given the same courtesy.
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Justin ruminates on the current position of left politics, where the path forward lies, and what it takes to keep building a better future.
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Justin discusses the Republican attempts to capitalize on tough on crime narratives in the midterms, how they've used those narratives historically and how it has ballooned the carceral state, and how Democrats furthered that process by co-signing tough on crime politics. And now some on the left are doing the same.
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Trevor talks about our anti-political moment ushered in by the fall of Trump and the rise of Joe Biden, and its promise to return us to the neoliberal consensus at the end of history - reinforced by and reflected in culture. He discusses the comparison between the post-Trump & post-Nixon cultural response, the reductiveness of the superhero movie, and the sexlessness of modern popular media; where it comes from and what it means.
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Justin and Britt discuss the role the criminal system victimizes everyone involved and how some of its worst aspects are justified.
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Justin & Britt discuss the integral nature of abolition to socialism and how abolition is inherently a working class issue though the lens of borders that are and have always been a construction imposed by imperial capitalism to perpetuate a system of violence, exploitation, and immiseration.
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Today organizers with the Amazon Labor Union and Starbucks Workers United met with Joe Biden. And Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls testified to the Senate, sparring with the likes of Lindsey Graham and making the case that workers make it all (corporate America) happen.
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The Dems are up in arms about the SCOTUS leak that confirms they intend to overturn Roe v. Wade. But the theatrical outrage is coming from the party that failed to protect abortion rights for decades. Instead, the Dems continue to use it as a shameless get out the vote tool, doing nothing to enshrine abortion rights into law.
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