web02.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:23:58 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Lasch” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/lasch Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com [teaser] Don't Say Disney ft. Geoff Shullenberger https://exhaust.fireside.fm/p26t 04d78c33-b80f-46dd-98d3-e7fe996dc7fa Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, Lasch, the family, ideology, political anemia, and more. This will also be our last Patreon episode until July. Don't worry, we've paused your payments. You won't be getting charged. We're going to come back in the summer with gusto. 11:49 yes Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, Lasch, the family, ideology, political anemia, and more. We're going on hiatus until July. Geoff's piece for Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/04/disney-has-always-spread-propaganda/ don't say gay, disney, ideology, lasch, family, florida, chris rufo Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, Lasch, the family, ideology, political anemia, and more.

We're going on hiatus until July.

Geoff's piece for Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/04/disney-has-always-spread-propaganda/

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We're going on hiatus until July.

Geoff's piece for Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/04/disney-has-always-spread-propaganda/

]]> [teaser] The True and Only Heaven 5: The Populist Campaign Against "Improvement" https://exhaust.fireside.fm/p16t 91ba8e9f-014f-4cec-a1d7-273364c6864b Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism. 15:14 yes Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism. This is a teaser. Subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode and get two exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) lasch, american history, populism, politics, progressive, liberal, liberalism Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism.

This is a teaser.

Subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode and get two exclusive episodes a month.

]]> Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism.

This is a teaser.

Subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode and get two exclusive episodes a month.

]]> [teaser] The True and Only Heaven 3: Nostalgia ft. Canada Mike https://exhaust.fireside.fm/p14t 4eb01506-8ace-4ac0-bfab-f2e8b3a73149 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more. 7:46 yes Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more. This a Teaser. Subscribe to get the rest of these episodes and the back catalog of our exclusive episodes. Patreon episodes come out twice a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) nostalgia, lasch, progressivism, cormac mccarthy, progress Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more.

This a Teaser. Subscribe to get the rest of these episodes and the back catalog of our exclusive episodes. Patreon episodes come out twice a month.

]]> Canada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more.

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]]> Episode 12: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. IV: Black Bloc Patrick Bateman Ft. Geoff Shullenberger https://exhaust.fireside.fm/12 b2b67b21-5c51-4ba0-96e9-36791950277b Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's Correspondence Society. 1:02:44 yes To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's Correspondence Society. We link the 2020 riots to the rich kids of the 1960s New Left, why Lasch's nostalgia for the 19th century yellow journalism doesn't make sense today, and why it is that the elites are not longer seceding as they were in Lasch's 90's, but in open revolt in the boardroom and on the street. Read his piece here (https://www.patreon.com/wesleyyang). Bibliography here. (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptwelvebib) Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger . lasch, riots, new left, weather underground, 2020 riots, politics, history To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's Correspondence Society. We link the 2020 riots to the rich kids of the 1960s New Left, why Lasch's nostalgia for the 19th century yellow journalism doesn't make sense today, and why it is that the elites are not longer seceding as they were in Lasch's 90's, but in open revolt in the boardroom and on the street.

Read his piece here.

Bibliography here.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .

]]> To conclude our series on Lasch's Revolt of the Elites, we talk to Geoff Shullenberger about his piece on Lasch's book for Wesley Yang's Correspondence Society. We link the 2020 riots to the rich kids of the 1960s New Left, why Lasch's nostalgia for the 19th century yellow journalism doesn't make sense today, and why it is that the elites are not longer seceding as they were in Lasch's 90's, but in open revolt in the boardroom and on the street.

Read his piece here.

Bibliography here.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .

]]> Episode 11: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. III: Democratic Discourse in Crisis https://exhaust.fireside.fm/11 2865e9f5-956a-4b2c-be59-35c9b685e87b Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney The lads dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book and talk about education, the press, and how "third places" helped them cultivate identities as a sense of civic virtue. 1:10:58 yes We dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book about the challenges facing democratic discourse. We talk about education, the press, and how "third places" helped them cultivate identities as a sense of civic virtue. This is probably our most autobiographical episode to date. Bibliography here (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/epelevenbib). Complaints Dept.: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. lasch, common core, higher ed, democracy We dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book about the challenges facing democratic discourse. We talk about education, the press, and how "third places" helped them cultivate identities as a sense of civic virtue. This is probably our most autobiographical episode to date.

Bibliography here.

Complaints Dept.: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

]]> We dive into the middle portion of Lasch's book about the challenges facing democratic discourse. We talk about education, the press, and how "third places" helped them cultivate identities as a sense of civic virtue. This is probably our most autobiographical episode to date.

Bibliography here.

Complaints Dept.: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

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