The End of the Myth is excellent; I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it.

It's a holiday week so we're mailing it in with the Ethicist. Hope you all are being as lazy as we are.

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Episode 369: The Return Policy

"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 2021. "The GOP has found a Putin-lite to fawn over. That's bad news for democracy," argued Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC the following year, 2022.

Within the last 10 years or so, and especially since the 2016 election of Trump, these authors — Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in addition to several others — have become liberal-friendly experts on authoritarianism. On a regular basis, they make appearances on cable news and in the pages of legacy newspapers and magazines–in some cases, as staff members–in order to warn of how individual, one-off “strongmen” like Trump, Putin, Orban, and Xi, made up a vague “authoritarian” axis hellbent on destroying Democracy for its own sake.

But what good does this framing do and who does it absolve? Instead of meaningfully contending with US's sprawling imperial power and internal systems of oppression — namely being the largest carceral state in the world — these MSNBC historians reheat decades-old Axis of Evil or cold War good vs evil rhetoric, pinning the horrors of centuries of political violence on individual "mad men." Meanwhile, they selectively invoke the "authoritarian" label, fretting about the need to save some abstract notion of democracy from geopolitical Bad Guys while remaining silent as the US funds, arms and backs the most authoritarian process imaginable — the immiseration and destruction of an entire people — specifically in Gaza. 

On this episode, we look at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved historians, dissecting their selective anti-authoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for US and US-allied militarism.

Our guest is historian and author Greg Grandin.

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

This week we catch up on news at the global scale, as well as try to answer why exactly so many people cheered on the public execution of a health insurance CEO. Finally we take a quick look at Trump's (current) nominee(s) for Secretary of Defense. 

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Episode 370: Who Checks The Balances

A failed bombing by a profoundly redpilled man dressed as the Joker, a world-cup-themed assassination plot, fallout from an attempted coup, the indictment of the former President… Brazil is full of stories these days. Head of the Intercept Brasil Andrew Fishman is our guest along with editor and repeat guest Caio Almendra. 

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The Joker Bombs Brazil feat Andrew Fishman & Caio Almendra (E304)

We catch up briefly on news around the arrest of the alleged UHC CEO assassin. Then, journalist and musician Jael Holzman returns to the show to discuss a new piece she has for Rolling Stone on the potential threats to trans people in the coming Trump administration. We look at the rather grim potential of massively undermining of trans medical care, the equally grim state of Democratic opposition, and the general fecklessness with which Democrats have handled what Joe Biden once called the “civil rights issue of our time” in both policy and rhetoric.

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892 - Talking Points Memo feat. Jael Holzman (12/10/24)

This week we touch on a few world news topics, and then develop a new TV show inspired by Taylor Sheridan's "The Landman"

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Episode 371: Enter Landman

Ben here, today Hesse Jacques and I discuss wether or not Nancy Pelosi's honkers had anything to do with her spill down the Duke Of Luxembourg's marble staircase, react to Peter Theils comments on Luigi Mangione, and review Grindr's year-end lists of bottoms, tops, and babygirl's per capita. We also, of course, wildly speculate about the drone sightings in and around New Jersey.



SD 369 - Drones & Crones

Charles and Alex wonder if John D. Rockefeller would have turned into a whiny Elon-style baby if he had to listen to the Red Dead guys shit talk him all day online. Plus, Pitbull gets into the botanical disinfectant game and Gerard Way voices a D&D pinball machine. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

237 - CleanBoss / DirtyBoss

Vous avez des questions, nous avons des réponses. Pas forcément à ces questions, mais bon.

Avec Anouck.

2'58 : une intégrale Dhanush ?
5'29 : quid de la mode des films catastrophe français des dix dernières années ?
8'11 : des émissions avec les collègues de Mad Movies ?
9'26 : nos pires expériences en salle
13'22 : un avis sur Peter Jackson ?
15'06 : Paolo Sorrentino ? Koji Wakamatsu ?
16'10 : est-ce que Discordia ne manque pas de discorde
17'25 : du coup, Discordia, qu'est-ce que c'est
21'56 : slip, boxer ou caleçon
22'45 : Shah Rukh, président du monde ?
23'49 : une émission sur les sorties indiennes ?
26'58 : Tinnu Anand ou Johnny Lever ?
29'10 : les castes dans le cinéma indien 
33'33 : les suggestions d'Amandine pour découvrir l'histoire indienne*
34'22 : une intégrale Salman Khan ?
35'16 : les cinématographies à suivre
42'49 : un mea culpa sur Ajay Devgn ?
43'48 : nos attentes ciné / musique de l'année
46'28 : nos doublages cultes
51'07 : peut-encore rêver avec le cinéma ?
53'46 : accompagner son enfant vers le cinéma**
57'04 : d'autres points sur l'horreur hors série ?
57'54 : une nouvelle expression proscrite
58'11 : pourquoi tant de haine envers Aaron Sorkin ?
1'04'09 : pourquoi le procès des années 1990 ?
1'05'20 : n'est-ce pas donner des armes à ceux qui vilipendent les goûts de la jeunesse ?
1'10'06 : parmi les intégrales traitées, des avis ont-ils infléchi ?
1'11'53 : un nouvel épisode de la série Pas mal, non ?
1'13'22 : combien de temps prend un épisode de Discordia ?***

*  Christophe Jaffrelot, L'Inde contemporaine de 1950 à nos jours
Michel Boivin "Histoire de l'Inde"  
Anne Viguier, "Une brève histoire de l'Inde"
France Culture : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/concordance-des-temps/en-inde-l-hindouisme-histoire-et-pouvoir-7376782 Radio France : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-des-indes-a-l-inde-les-avatars-du-nationalisme https://bnu.hypotheses.org/5380 Les vidéos du forum France-Inde https://sites.google.com/view/lesforumsfranceinde/webinaires?pli=1  

** la reco d'Anouck : https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/pizza-night-movie-logbooks
https://austinkleon.com/2023/12/07/pizza-night-blockbusters-2021-2023/

*** court-métrage bonus 

https://www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com/

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Discordia épisode 96 : FAQ 2025, 1ère partie

In the inaugural episode of the Chapo Trap House Podcast, Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic), Matt Christman (@Cushbomb), and Will Menaker (@willmenaker) discuss logical fallacies and take a sideways glance at a wacky week in US politics that saw Bernie win Michigan, Hillary support the Contras and Reagan's AIDS policies, and Trump getting kicked out of Chicago. We also game out the possible post politics career of Marco Rubio and pledge our support to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. All this plus much, much more. 

Episode 1 - THA SAGA BEGINS (3/12/16)

Tim's back. We talk about the classic New York slice, read more from John Kasich's drifter diaries, and listen to more random excerpts of Gorilla Brain Mind. 

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Episode 125 -  Fast And Furious: Toledo Drifter feat. Tim Heidecker (7/15/17)

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

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