This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Ezra Klein. We discuss the emerging political faction known as Degrowth, the carbon crisis and the policy arc of the neoliberal period.
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My guest is Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, the host of The Ezra Klein Show, and a co-founder of Vox Media. Klein is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a new book titled Abundance. We discuss his promethean, energy-rich vision for the future, polarization in the attention economy and t...
2025-04-07 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. This week, my guest is Andrew Callaghan, a documentary filmmaker and the host of Channel 5.
This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Andrew Callaghan. We explore Andrew’s background in music and online subcultures, the ethics of publishing or "risk-for-harm", and his plans for the future of Channel 5 and more. Plus a few behind the scenes and personal stories that we could not include in the public version....
2025-04-01 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Nick Land, a British philosopher based in Shanghai, China. He is the author of several books, including Fanged Noumena and The Dark Enlightenment. In the 1990s, he lead the esteemed theory-fiction collective known as the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University. He joins me to discuss hyperstition, m...
2025-04-01 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Adam Friedland. We discuss the ethics of platforming and the art of the talk show interview. For a few reasons, we chose to put this part of the conversation on the private feed only.
2025-03-31 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI recently spoke with Ezra Klein on Doomscroll #18. Klein is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a new book titled Abundance.
Among the emerging political factions of the 2020s, few have been more influential than th...
2025-03-26 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Adam Friedland, a stand up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of The Adam Friedland Show. We discuss the influence of alt-media, a farewell to Cumtown (RIP), the ideas & inspiration behind The Adam Friedland Show and his many social media controversies. How did comedians become recast as public intellectua...
2025-03-24 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. This week, my guest is Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, the host of The Ezra Klein Show, and a co-founder of Vox Media. Klein is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a n...
2025-03-18 20:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Ezra Klein. We discuss the emerging political faction known as Degrowth, the carbon crisis and the policy arc of the neoliberal period.
You can watch the public episode on YouTube.
2025-03-18 19:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Briahna Joy gray. We discuss irony politics, the alt-media to organization pipeline, and our shared admiration for Star Trek utopia.
2025-03-17 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV: you fell down an internet rabbit hole and became obsessed with fringe ideologies. Through the steady consumption of Wojaks, you came to understand how MAGA-communism and libertarian sov-corps would converge to produce a neo-Hapsburg empire of feudal micro-nations under a state capitalist fra...
2025-03-11 17:34:31 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Briahna Joy Gray, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast. We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.
2025-03-10 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ll be honest — I wasn’t going to publish this part but I’m just a huge JC Dentun fan and this has got to be the some of the greatest 13 minutes of podcasting that absolutely blows my mind. Check out JC’s podcast: 2025-03-06 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Audio episodes are now coming out on the podcast feed. Find the show on Apple, ...
2025-03-04 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Adam Friedland. We discuss the ethics of platforming and the art of the talk show interview. For a few reasons, we chose to put this part of the conversation on the private feed only.
Deep Research is a mini-series collaboration with Otherworld.
In the final episode, Josh speaks to the researcher "JC Dentun" about the vast cosmology and beliefs of Robert Monroe and the circle of people around him that we learned about ...
2025-03-03 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Quinn Slobodian. We discuss the crisis of the 1970s and the 2020s. Of all the open theoretical debates, these periods are by far the most consequential. The analysis we take away from these periods will help determine whether neoliberalism was a project of class war (something that can be reversed) or an inevitabl...
2025-02-27 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
It all started back in 2018 when I decided to boil my brain in the gutter of the internet. Since that time, I’ve been exploring niche online political subcultures through writing, podcasting, video...
2025-02-25 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism". Neoliberalism is the most misused word in today's political discourse. In this episode we discuss the origins of the ideological movement. What is neoliber...
2025-02-24 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Doomscroll. Episode #16 with guest Briahna Joy Gray is out now. As we enter the historic era of Trump 2.0, deep dissatisfaction with the Democratic party has caused many to reflect and reevaluate progressi...
2025-02-18 22:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Briahna Joy gray. We discuss irony politics, the alt-media to organization pipeline, and our shared admiration for Star Trek utopia.
You can watch the public podcast episode on YouTube<...
2025-02-18 21:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Josh talks to three individuals who have done the Gateway tapes Chelsea, DJ, and Charlie. This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld.
In the next and final episode, Josh speaks to a researcher who uses the p...
This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Will Menaker. We discuss “based populism”, the power of comedy in politics, and the realignment of counter-culture in America.
2025-02-13 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Audio episodes of Doomscroll are out on the podcast feed. Find my episode with Will Menaker on Apple, 2025-02-11 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest is Will Menaker, a host of the Chapo Trap House podcast. We discuss the failures of working within the Democratic Party, the role of alternative media and a certain state in a certain part of the world. Can humor help us find truth within the online landscape?
2025-02-10 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
What is neoliberalism? Episode #15 with guest Quinn Slobodian is out today.
When I first started writing about radical online politics, many readers hesitated to take unusual topics such as LARP and fantasy world-building as a ...
2025-02-05 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Quinn Slobodian. We discuss the crisis of the 1970s and the 2020s. Of all the open theoretical debates, these periods are by far the most consequential. The analysis we take away from these periods will help determine whether neoliberalism was a project of class war (something t...
2025-02-05 21:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Joshua Citarella begins his deep dive into the history and teachings of the Monroe Institute ("the worlds premiere organization for studying human consciousness"), starting with an expert interview with artist and acoustics expert Carmelo Pampil...
2025-02-03 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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