Displaying 6 items of ex.haust with the tag "christopher lasch".
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Episode 60: Double Feature '84: The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street ft. Josh Bregman
October 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 17 mins
arnold schwarzenegger, christopher lasch, final girl, freddy krueger, horror, james cameron, slasher, terminator
It's Halloween season. To help celebrate, Emmet and frequent guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about two favorites: The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street. They talk about the slasher genre, collapse of American confidence, the terror of the past, the horror of the future, and more.
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Episode 53: The Lasch Files: The True and Only Heaven pt. I
August 24th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
chesa boudin, christopher lasch, cold war, gop, history, leftism, progress, progressivism, republican
Emmet and John begin their series on Lasch's book The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics."
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Episode 32: The Lasch Files: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of Psychopolitics
March 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 6 mins
christopher lasch, cia, cold war, congress for cultural freedom, cultural cold war, korean war, mccarthyism, nixon, psyop
Emmet and John discuss Christopher Lasch's essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom."
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Episode 29: After Virtue Pt. I: Emotivism and Its Discontents
March 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 17 mins
after virtue, alisdair macintyre, christopher lasch, communitarianism, cultural decay, culture, ethics, marx, marxism, politics
Emmet and John begin their reading series on Alisdair MacIntyre's classic work After Virtue.
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Episode 23: Vaccine Breakdown II: Decentralization Boogaloo ft. Canada Mike
February 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
america, american history, christopher lasch, corona, corona virus, coronavirus, covid19, ivan ilich, logistics, pfizer, supply chains, vaccine
Canada Mike joins us to talk about why America's vaccine rollout plan doesn't make sense and why it's not going well.
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Episode 9: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. II: Martyrs Don't Run the Church
October 27th, 2020 | 54 mins 48 secs
christopher lasch, democracy, john dewey, philosophy, politics
Emmet and John continue their reading of Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.