4: You Ain't No Dickens

In episode 6, we do a little reading series. We look at Giorgio Agamben, Nietzsche, Chu Tien-Wen, some author whose name I forgot that Joy talked about, and Svetlana Alexievich. We also talk about Charles Murray's visit to Middlebury, and analyze how the right can "trigger" events such as the viole…

On this episode Jason, Kyle, and Billy discuss Amber A'Lee Frost's recent piece in the Baffler (https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/all-worked-up-nowhere-to-go-frost) as well as a piece on the alt-right by Evan Malmgren (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-feed-the-trolls-alt-right-culture-4c…

We are Lind-Boys this week! Kyle and Billy, in the absence of Joy, talk about whether or not the Midwest will become more relevant after the Democrats failed to create a coalition of the coasts and large urban areas, Michael Lind's article "To Have and to Have Not," the invisibility of elites in so…