Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler-colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/omar-zahzah // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www...
Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation. Eli Cahan takes the time to speak to his dual position as a pediatrician and investigative journalist and how they intersect. He takes us through the struggles many families are dealing with, the human-level hardships that are unique to ...
Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books. Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgotten, and overlooked founders, Wakara—intersecting with indigenous ecological knowledge and manageme...
Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books. Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgotten, and overlooked founders, Wakara, intersecting with ecological knowledge and management systems...
I speak to the enormously successful campaign of Zorhan Mamdani, his charisma, the very practical policy goals set by his run for mayor of New York City, and how you will be disappointed. "I just want to be really transparent and honest about the fact that I, too, feel many of the feelings that people have about this, while also having this other part of myself, which I don't want to describe as pessimistic as much as just realistic." // Become a free or paid Patreon supporter and listen to the ...
Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster. In line with the book’s title, we discuss the making and the meaning of Luigi Mangione, currently on trial for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In his full book treatment of the case, Richardson follows the breadcrumbs Mangione left behind, painting a vivid picture of his influences and thinking, situating this violent act...
Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Journalist and author Shane Burley joined me to discuss the specter of political violence in the United States, remarking on the recent assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and the fallout of that event. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/shane-burley-8 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast
Christopher B. Zeichmann, scholar of religion and antiquity, joined me in an enlightening discussion about his new book, Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings, released through Pluto Press. We take an uncommon ground-level tour through the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Instead of viewing this period and place through the myopic lens of the elites of these societies—the so-called Great Men of History—Zeichmann impresses upon us the radical forms of democr...
Journalist and author Shane Burley joined me to discuss the specter of political violence in the United States, remarking on the recent assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and the fallout of that event. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Christopher B. Zeichmann, scholar of religion and antiquity, joined me in an enlightening discussion about his new book, Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings, released through Pluto Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Thea Riofrancos joined me to discuss her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, released through W.W. Norton. The green capitalist energy transition is underway. In what ways does alternative energy—so-called sustainable or green energy—differ from the fossil fuel extraction, distribution, and consumption that has underlain the global capitalist system since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? Where are these sites of extraction? What critical minerals are being sought?...
Thea Riofrancos joined me to discuss her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, just released through W.W. Norton. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Roy Scranton returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress, recently published by Stanford University Press. Scranton describes our moment as an impasse. We struggle to narrativize and imagine our path through. The vision of our collective horizons is muddied by the sheer unknowability of what the near and distant future holds. Narratives of progress have brought us to this confluence of crises as complex global systems collapse and shift unde...
Roy Scranton returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress, recently published by Stanford University Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Counterculture author and artist Stewart Home joined me in a discussion about his new book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, recently published by Pluto Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/stewart-home // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast
Counterculture author and artist Stewart Home joined me in a discussion about his new book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, recently published by Pluto Books. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
I am joined by returning guest John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus and author, to discuss the dramatic shifts and fissures in the global "rules-based order." Since our last interview in March 2020, successive crises have challenged the underlying basis of international law and the coherence of the global economic system. Taking our previous interview into account—an examination of the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, situating it historically—I asked John to help us make sense...
I am joined by returning guest John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus and author, to discuss the dramatic shifts and fissures in the global "rules-based order." // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
Anti-zionist writer and agitator Amanda Gelender joins me to discuss what she describes as the Jewish community's widespread fascism problem. I ask Amanda about her upbringing in a Jewish community and what role Zionism had in her perceptions of the State of Israel and Occupied Palestine, including stepping back from the question itself and interrogating the often unexamined contexts and built-in assumptions the question contains. We converse on how "Jewish feelings" are weaponized in the discou...
Anti-zionist writer and agitator Amanda Gelender joins me to discuss what she describes as the Jewish community's widespread fascism problem. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness
I’m joined by Lyle Lewis, former endangered species biologist and author of Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish. We discuss his decades long career working under the US Department of the Interior, and the various bureaucratic hurdles that stood in the way of protecting and preserving endangered species in the various roles he served there. Lewis holds a unique position, and describes why, and how, the human species will, in a relatively short time, face extinction. // Episode not...
I’m joined by Lyle Lewis, former endangered species biologist and author of Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish. We discuss his decades long career working under the US Department of the Interior, the various bureaucratic hurdles that stood in the way of protecting and preserving endangered species, and why Lewis holds a unique position to describe why, and how, the human species will, in a relatively short time, face extinction. // Support the work + listen to the full interview...
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like. // Episode notes: ht...
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like. // Support the work ...
I speak with Dr. Daniel Swain, climate scientist and science communicator. We begin with the recent news of the Trump administration's deep cuts to current and future research on the climate crisis, and what impact this will have on our ability to track weather and climate trends in the years to come. I asked him to elaborate on his role as a weather and climate science communicator, especially in disaster scenarios, like during the devastating wildfires that swept through Southern California in...
I speak with Dr. Daniel Swain, climate scientist and communicator, who focuses on the dynamics and impacts of extreme events—including droughts, floods, storms, and wildfires—on a warming planet. I asked Dr. Swain to elaborate on his role as a weather and climate science communicator, especially in disaster scenarios, like during the devastating wildfires that swept through Southern California in January, which is "expected to become the costliest global wildfire disaster on record.” // Support ...
