On this first (free) episode of the year we take a journey through cop lore; talk movies; and meet a real life Mr. Freeze, who's here to kick some ice

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Episode 273: The Iseman Cometh

This week we're joined by University of Chicago professor of history, Gabriel Winant, to discuss the social and political origins of the modern healthcare industry in places like Pittsburgh and Appalachia.

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Episode 276: Infirmary Blues (w/ special guest Gabriel Winant)

What if the Super Bowl was invaded by aliens?

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I Want To Believe

Everything from religion to industrial disasters to Mehdi Hasan's debating methods

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Episode 278: The Freight Awakening

This week we talk Ukraine, the ruling class's fixation on Boxes, and the mass hysteria of Devil's Milkshakes issuing from East Palestine, Ohio

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Episode 279: Vance Macabre

We talk Chicago, we talk class, we talk boobs.

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Class Dealignment In The Minotaur's Maze

A guest with no name tells us a tale of being hunted by the federal government for protesting during the 2020 George Floyd uprisings. We also talk about Esperanto for some reason.

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One Way Out w/ X

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: The Dead-eyed steely man of destiny, the mental breakdown of the lower bourgeois, capitalist order vs. based nationalism, protectionist Trump, a new god, Soviet history, China

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240 - Good News for People Who Love Good News 03.03.23

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241 - Armageddon Outta Here! 03.10.23

"Our progress has been part of the living history of America," President Jimmy Carter declared in a 1979 speech. "America is a nation of progress, of moving forward," Senator Chuck Grassley stated in 2022 on the Senate floor. "The story of America is a story of progress and resilience, of always moving forward, of never, ever giving up. It's a story unique among all nations," President Joe Biden announced in his 2023 State of the Union.

For decades - even centuries - policymakers, and media on their behalf, have employed some variation on the same rhetorical theme: the United States is a nation of progress, especially so-called "racial progress." Though our Great Experiment has been imperfect, we're told, it's constantly improving, steadily and automatically forging ahead toward its ideal state. Yes, we've been home to the violent oppression of untold sums of people, but look how far we’ve come!

There have objectively been political gains for all groups historically and currently denied basic rights in the U.S. This is obvious. But the trajectory is far from linear, raising the question: How far have "we" really come? Are people, especially Black, Latino, and Native people, less likely to suffer through poverty than any time before now? Are police and prisons any less violent? To what extent have U.S. law and policymaking really evolved?

On this episode, we dissect the liberal assertion that social, particularly racial, progress in the U.S. is inevitable, that there's this comforting "arc" of history bending towards justice. We examine how this idea came to be, who gets to define the metrics of "progress," and why it's dangerous to advance the tidy Vaseline-lens narrative that societal improvement is part of some preordained future.

Our guest is Dr. Julian M. Rucker.

Episode 178: The Palliative Pop-History of American "Racial Progress" Narratives

This week we discuss (yet again) Silicon Valley Bank, Bret Stephens's reflections on the Iraq War, and a man named Johnny Shield's views on conservatism in higher education.

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