web02.fireside.fm Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:23:58 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Populism” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/populism Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -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 Episode 88: Oceania Has Always Been At Culture War With Eastasia ft. Michael Cuenco https://exhaust.fireside.fm/88 c56d957f-7fc1-4bf2-bdf1-124b907baee3 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more! 1:13:01 yes Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more! Check out some of Michael's Work: How Culture War Trumped Class War (https://compactmag.com/article/how-culture-war-trumped-class-war), Compact Magazine America's New Post-Literate Epistemology (https://www.palladiummag.com//2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/), Palladium "Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/#notes), American Affairs Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money culture war, populism, trump, oligarchy, marshall mccluhan, neoliberalism, conspiracy theory, end of history Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!

Check out some of Michael's Work:

How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs

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Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

]]> Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!

Check out some of Michael's Work:

How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs

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Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

]]> Episode 78: The Political Biography of a Zoomer ft. James Lynch https://exhaust.fireside.fm/78 f73ee957-8d12-4480-a3ef-59600f2b6aa0 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney James Lynch, a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more! 1:07:13 yes James Lynch (https://twitter.com/jameslynch32), a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more! The Mainstream Media Is Attacking Joe Rogan Instead of Admitting Its Own Failures (https://www.newsweek.com/mainstream-media-attacking-joe-rogan-instead-admitting-its-own-failures-opinion-1674670) by James Lynch, Newsweek The Working Class Is Up For Grabs. Which Party Will Claim It? (https://www.newsweek.com/working-class-grabs-which-party-will-claim-it-opinion-1673941) by James Lynch, Newsweek How Progressive Theatrics Benefit the Elites (https://www.newsweek.com/how-progressive-theatrics-benefit-elites-opinion-1650559) by James Lynch, Newsweek Subscribe to Grid Brief! (https://www.gridbrief.com/subscribe) Become a Patron to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Suicide Design by Hope Conspiracy (https://thehopeconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/death-knows-your-name-deluxe-2) blm, woke, new right, populism, trump, bernie, gop, dnc, liberalism, culture war, crt, big tech James Lynch, a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more!

The Mainstream Media Is Attacking Joe Rogan Instead of Admitting Its Own Failures by James Lynch, Newsweek
The Working Class Is Up For Grabs. Which Party Will Claim It? by James Lynch, Newsweek
How Progressive Theatrics Benefit the Elites by James Lynch, Newsweek

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Closing Song: Suicide Design by Hope Conspiracy

]]> James Lynch, a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more!

The Mainstream Media Is Attacking Joe Rogan Instead of Admitting Its Own Failures by James Lynch, Newsweek
The Working Class Is Up For Grabs. Which Party Will Claim It? by James Lynch, Newsweek
How Progressive Theatrics Benefit the Elites by James Lynch, Newsweek

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Closing Song: Suicide Design by Hope Conspiracy

]]> Episode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political ft. Anton Jager https://exhaust.fireside.fm/74 1e66f21c-4856-4c9b-8924-1f1c1657f9fe Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! 56:32 yes Anton Jager (https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm) sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics (https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics) by Anton Jaegar, Tribune. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians. (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/) Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FE0fQB7K_k) politics, political theory, populism, blm, trump, george floyd, covid, social media, fandom Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more!

How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics by Anton Jaegar, Tribune.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue.

Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous.

]]> Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more!

How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics by Anton Jaegar, Tribune.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue.

Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous.

]]> Episode 67: The Imperial Vampire Castle II: Standpoint Bureaucracy and the CIA's New Dialect of Power ft. River Page https://exhaust.fireside.fm/67 8518d5c0-5cd0-48b7-bf1e-88442eb1edf8 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism. 1:06:54 yes River Page (https://twitter.com/river_is_nice) joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism. The Standpoint Bureaucracy (https://twinkrev.com/2021/02/the-standpoint-bureaucracy/) by River Page, Twink Revolution The CIA and the New Dialect of Power (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-power/) by River Page, American Affairs River's Substack. (https://riverpage.substack.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) pmc, working class, populism, cia, woke, wokeism, wokeness, identity politics, idpol, mental illness, tucker carlson, queer River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism.

The Standpoint Bureaucracy by River Page, Twink Revolution
The CIA and the New Dialect of Power by River Page, American Affairs

River's Substack.

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]]> River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism.

The Standpoint Bureaucracy by River Page, Twink Revolution
The CIA and the New Dialect of Power by River Page, American Affairs

River's Substack.

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]]> [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.

]]> Episode 35: Two-Piece: Gentry Elites, Dead WASPs, and the End of Fair Play Culture https://exhaust.fireside.fm/35 6bb0a3ab-b730-43a6-bda0-52318d2f13e2 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 23:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. 1:09:21 yes Emmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. Do elites have the same interes? The same culture? Do they even believe in their own institutions? "American Gentry (https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/american-gentry)" by Patrick Wyman "Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/02/rediscovering-e-digby-baltzells-sociology-of-elites/)" by Aaron M Renn Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep35bib). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/creator-home). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Slipknot - Wait and Bleed x Chrono Trigger OST - At the Bottom of the Night (KEIFERGR33N REMIX) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music)" elites, populism, wasp culture, america, politics, american politics, political history Emmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. Do elites have the same interes? The same culture? Do they even believe in their own institutions?

"American Gentry" by Patrick Wyman
"Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites" by Aaron M Renn

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Slipknot - Wait and Bleed x Chrono Trigger OST - At the Bottom of the Night (KEIFERGR33N REMIX)"

]]> Emmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. Do elites have the same interes? The same culture? Do they even believe in their own institutions?

"American Gentry" by Patrick Wyman
"Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites" by Aaron M Renn

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Slipknot - Wait and Bleed x Chrono Trigger OST - At the Bottom of the Night (KEIFERGR33N REMIX)"

]]> Episode 26: Line Go Down: A GameStop Debrief ft. Matt Stonks https://exhaust.fireside.fm/26 4f9ed6c7-2ecd-4064-908c-0801dd250881 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Matt Stonks joins the lads to talk through financial fundamentals, what happened with GameStop, and what the whole kerfuffle might mean for the future. 1:13:57 yes Our dear friend Matt Stonks joins us to talk about the whole GameStop thing. Matt helps us with some Markets 101 terminology, and then we talk about the politics of the r/WallStreetBets moment before we close with three different views of what it all means. Matt has some corrections he wanted to issue and some extensive resources he wanted to provide all of which are in the bibliography. (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptwentysixbib) Emmet mentioned Matt Taibbi's take on all this, which Taibbi clarified (https://taibbi.substack.com/p/in-response-to-new-york-re-gamestop?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDE2NTU5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjI2MzI2OSwiXyI6IkFqQkx2IiwiaWF0IjoxNjE0MTM5OTYwLCJleHAiOjE2MTQxNDM1NjAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMDQyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.L2gKgJzF4Jn0trsa2iJqHYnMJ1iJ4DBixwUjTP9jET4) a couple hours after recoring on Feb 6. Closing Song: "Houseplants (https://squiduk.bandcamp.com/track/houseplants)" by Squid. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Special Guest: Matt Stonks. gamestop, wall street bets, chamath, elon musk, wire card, the big short, finance, deepfuckingvalue, economics, populism, free markets Our dear friend Matt Stonks joins us to talk about the whole GameStop thing. Matt helps us with some Markets 101 terminology, and then we talk about the politics of the r/WallStreetBets moment before we close with three different views of what it all means.

Matt has some corrections he wanted to issue and some extensive resources he wanted to provide all of which are in the bibliography. Emmet mentioned Matt Taibbi's take on all this, which Taibbi clarified a couple hours after recoring on Feb 6.

Closing Song: "Houseplants" by Squid.

Follow us on Twitter.

Special Guest: Matt Stonks.

]]> Our dear friend Matt Stonks joins us to talk about the whole GameStop thing. Matt helps us with some Markets 101 terminology, and then we talk about the politics of the r/WallStreetBets moment before we close with three different views of what it all means.

Matt has some corrections he wanted to issue and some extensive resources he wanted to provide all of which are in the bibliography. Emmet mentioned Matt Taibbi's take on all this, which Taibbi clarified a couple hours after recoring on Feb 6.

Closing Song: "Houseplants" by Squid.

Follow us on Twitter.

Special Guest: Matt Stonks.

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