"Why We Need Inclusive Nationalism," the journal Democracy declares. "Inclusion is patriotism of the highest order," cries The Washington Post. "Try patriotism," Bloomberg opinion writer Noah Smith proclaims.

Contemporary liberals repeatedly tell us – amid events that should make us impugn the foundations of the United States, like police killings and the absurd panic over Critical Race Theory – that American patriotism is inherently good, only sullied by "bad apples" and the Hard Right, and that the Center, Center-Left, and sometimes even the Center-Right, must "reclaim" this proud patriotism from the clutches of those who harm its noble reputation. In this framing, everyone, from 19th Century abolitionists to Indigenous land protectors to anti-war protesters, no matter their positions on the American project, is hailed as a "patriot," serving to make America the very best it can be.

Meanwhile, some popular PBS documentaries, NPR broadcasts, and many other forms of ostensibly "progressive" media alter the stories of radical figures and movements in the United States to promote this notion of "inclusive patriotism." Instead of highlighting and elucidating the political principles and goals of indigenous peoples, Communists, anarchists, socialists, anti-colonialists, and other activists, dissidents, and combatants throughout the past, mainline U.S. media offer a revisionist history in which these figures are either invisible or proudly American, Constitution-abiding liberals participating in some imaginary, high-minded national project.

In this episode, we examine how media routinely defang radical political figures as noble patriots in service of reformism and incrementalism; how they erase the power dynamics between oppressor and oppressed; why there can't really be such a thing as "progressive" or "inclusive" patriotism–– and why that's perfectly okay for adults to accept, and how the fiction of inclusive nationalism exist to narrow the confides to what is political possible today.

Our guest is organizer and writer Charlotte Rosen.

"Inclusive Patriotism": How Radicals Are Retconned into Liberal Champions of the American Project

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In this public News Brief, we examine the most unhelpful, glib, self-aggrandizing, and cynical responses from American media to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

News Brief: 5 Worst US Media Reactions to Russia's Ukraine Invasion

Jorge from Everybody Loves Communism comes on for another jaw dropping reading series. Imperialism. What is it? In what ways is it like the enemies from the Final Fantasy franchise?

Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism w/ @LineGoesDown

In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a moral and more just vision for the world.

Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage

Naomi Karavani fills in for Jake to go over Starbucks letter to the whitehouse. Then professor Samuel Moyn calls in to talk about the role of the Supreme Court in US history and the path forward for the left in dealing with it.

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Criminal Minds. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Inside the Criminal Mind. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

Each of these is the title of a series, fictional or otherwise, or documentary that relies on the work of so-called criminal profilers. They’re all premised, more or less, on the same idea: That the ability to venture inside the mind of an individual who’s committed a horrific act of violence–say, serial murder, rape, or kidnapping–is the key to figuring out why that crime happened in the first place. This theory may sound promising at first blush; after all, the highest echelons of law enforcement in the US continue to use criminal profiling tactics to this day.

But the reality is that, despite their prevalence in law enforcement both onscreen and off, criminal profiling techniques are largely ineffective, and in many ways, dangerous. Failing to consider institutional factors such as a culture of violence and easy access to weapons, patriarchy, austerity and other social ills that contribute to and reinforce violent crime, criminal profiling focuses almost exclusively on individual experiences and psychological makeup. Meanwhile, it categorizes “criminals” not as people who’ve been shaped by this social conditioning, but as neuro-deviants whose psychological anatomy is just different from yours or mine.

On this episode, we examine the history of the practice of criminal profiling in the West; how the FBI and entertainment industry work in tandem to glamorize the profession, despite its harms; what the actual effectiveness of profiling is; and how it serves as yet another form of Hollywood copaganda.

Our guests are Thomas MacMillan and Chris Fabricant.

Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of “Criminal Profiling”

With Brace still out on walkabout in a mysterious land, we talk through the recent election in the Philippines of BongBong Marcos, son of the brutal dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and his running mate Sara Duterte, daughter of current president Rodrigo Duterte.

Episode 227: Sons And Daughters

We talk about how abolishing the CIA is a lot more popular an issue than people think

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Episode 249: Illegalize It

Tim Heidecker and the boys talk W’s Iraq “slip” and Felix creates the Dark Ellen movement.

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In this News Brief, we discuss the phoned-in, cynical response by Republicans to mass shooting and how they've devolved into self-parody.

News Brief: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings

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