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Soviet America’s Sweethearts

Scott McConnell

Though Red Scare is mainly a cultural podcast, its importance lies in its politics. When they began streaming in 2018, they were perceived as Bernie Sanders-friendly socialists. By 2022, they were an eclectically right-wing podcast that brings a downtown dissident edge to the table.

Let Men Be

Mary Harrington

Restoring the well-being of working-class men is straightforwardly in women’s interests. A constructive path forward begins with reactionary feminists leading the way in celebrating those social structures in which younger men learn from older ones how to be in the world—without demanding to be included in them.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #164

Tragedy in Tennessee

Ft. Helen Roy

There’s no sugarcoating the horror of what happened in Nashville this week as a disturbed young woman murdered six people, three of them aged 9 years old. The shooter was wrapped up in transgender extremism, a fact which has unveiled a ghoulish relish for the death of Christians in contemporary culture. Meanwhile, as megacorporations charge forth with reckless abandon in an AI arms race, some interesting characters are calling for a national pause on the unproven technology. But is that just a makeshift bandage over a much deeper, festering wound? The editors, with special guest Helen Roy, deconstruct the social contagions at work in the US as well as the potential threat of AI before reminding you, as always, to read the site.