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Battling Archetypes: Episode Six

This is episode six of going through the battling archetypes and essential tools in the Disinfolklore analytical method. Some of you may remember last week I talked about Donald archetyping himself as mad, and my archetyping of my experience on the bridge at Stanytsia Luhanska as something folklori…

Podcast|Stealth Genocide: How Russia Uses Disinfolklore to Conceal and Create Genocides

It's 1942. You live by the railway. You see the trains travelling to Auschwitz. Would you know you're witnessing genocide? Between 2015 and 2018, working in eastern Ukraine as a diplomat, I witnessed a stealthily prepared and executed genocide. Even though I had studied the holocaust. Read much of …

The Hoosier Past,Present and Future of Jewish Studies with Alvin Rosenfeld

Our guest on the Podcast is Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Professor of Jewish Studies, holding the M. Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He discusses how he played a significant role in creating one of the l…

Story of Writing July 31, 2026

Author Daniel Defoe is locked in a pillory, the U.S. and Soviet Union sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and the birthday club includes Ignacio Cervantes, Primo Levi, and Ahmet Ertegun - with a reading from Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe."

Making art out of pain

Angie Elita Newell does not write easy books. Her novel, All I See Is Violence, is not a fantasy escape, which she joked about after finding herself surrounded by “sexy fairy” books at BookCon. It is a historical novel built from trauma, archival research, Indigenous memory, and the long shadow of …

Robert S.C. Gordon, *Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century*. London: University College London Press, 2023.

Send us Fan Mail Across all human cultures, beliefs, superstitions, and stories about luck are prevalent. Our fascination with luck, intertwined with happiness, danger, uncertainty, and aspiration, makes it a captivating yet elusive concept. Different cultures reinterpret luck and seek to control i…

The Room Always Empties Before You Finish The Sentence

You tell someone what happened. You watch their face perform something polite. Then you watch them change the subject, gently, the way you’d steer a car around something dead in the road. This has a name in one very specific history, and no name at all in most others. A woman describes years of pai…

Fascism in a time of AI

Since Trump first took office in 2016 there has been a debate on the left as to whether he and other authoritarian right-wing leaders, such as Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi, should be described as fascist. Some have dismissed the label as rhetorical excess, while others have chosen to describe thi…

Episode 358 with Daniel Peña, Author of How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear, Spirited & Thorough Chronicler of Human & Humane Stories & the Micro that Impacts the Macro

Notes and Links to Daniel Peña’s Work     Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor of Creative Writing.  Formerly, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Gu…