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Discourses
by Pedro L. Gonzalez
The official podcast of Contra, hosted by Pedro Gonzalez. www.readcontra.com
Episodes
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Hands That Bind
Humans have been telling stories about the world around them since the first man stoked the embers of the first fire that set the night ablaze and chased away the dark. Parmenides equated night and darkness with ignorance, and thus stories—narratives that provided some sense of order and…
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Cowboys & Indians
You can grab a copy of “The Cannibal Owl” from Belle Point Press or Amazon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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The Razor's Edge
Subscribe to Vincenzo Barney's Substack here. Follow him on Twitter here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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New Modalities
A talk with Lydia Laurenson about polarization, the internet, and life after NRx. You can read Lydia's Substack here. Get a copy of The New Modality here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Dreaming of the New Age
Sometimes less says more. That was certainly true in Rutger Hauer’s case when he played Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), which is based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a jaded cop whose job it is to...
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Terminally Online
The neo-futurist concept artist Syd Mead (Blade Runner, Aliens, or Tron) called science fiction “reality ahead of schedule.” In the digital age, that train travels faster than ever, and its terminally online passengers are speeding along the frontiers of an experience that folds together the...
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Weird Tales for Strange Times
Note: I commissioned original art from Manuel “Lolo” Guzman for this one. He is incredibly talented, and I look forward to working with him again in the future. You can check out his website here. I’ve decided to make it a point to pay real artists for real art. I hope you will consider going…
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After the Fall
On the day I recorded this episode with Alex Kaschuta of The Garden of Earthly Delights, the economy was really starting to feel the pain of the trade war. I think some degree of hurt is inevitable, and that tariffs can be a useful instrument. This, however, has been something else entirely....
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Disruption
Back in 2023, ResumeBuilder asked 1,000 business leaders whether and how they surveil employees on a primarily remote or hybrid arrangement. More than a third said that they used webcams to monitor workers. The previous year, the New York Times reported on the rise of the “worker credit score,”…
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Meet the New Boss
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readcontra.com The first half of this episode is free. You can find Leighton’s work at Social Studies on Substack and follow him on Twitter @lwoodhouse. “Morning in America.” That’s what comes to mind when we think of the heady...
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Once Upon a Time in America
A talk with Rambo Van Halen on the film industry, culture, and politics. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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Aura
A talk with Travis of Postliberal Book Reviews about art, religion, philosophy, and the transcendental. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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Driving Into the Sun
A talk with the man behind The Van Man Company about the culture of clean living. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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Building From the Wreckage
A talk with novelist and New York Times Magazine columnist Ross Barkan on the demise of the "Resistance" movement, the end of hyperpolitics, and what comes next. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Do LLMs Dream of Electric Muses?
A talk with Vincenzo Barney on his big Cormac McCarthy scoop, the origins and nature of artificial intelligence, art, and techno-oligarchs. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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You Need to Read More
Liza Libes joins the podcast for a talk about the humanities, literature, and publishing in the era of DEI and AI. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.readcontra.com/subscribe
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Why Storytelling Matters with Dr. Matthew Mehan
Emily Dickenson wrote, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant—Success in Circuit lies.” In other words, truths, especially moral truths, are often best communicated through allegories, symbols, myths—in a word, through storytelling. Stories shape our conceptions of right and wrong, our past and...
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The Trump-DeSantis Social Media War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readcontra.com Ryan Girdusky publishes the National Populist Newsletter and leads the 1776 PAC. He is also the author of “They’re Not Listening: How The Elites Created the National Populist Revolution.” He joins Discourses to…
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The Historical Roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War with Sean McMeekin
Editor’s Note: The next episode will be behind a paywall, so please consider becoming a subscriber if you are not already. Sean McMeekin is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History at Bard College and the author of “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II.” He joins me for this...
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'False Flags' Demand Strategic Skepticism in Ukraine
Christopher Mott is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy, an international relations scholar, and the author of “The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia.” He joins me for this episode to discuss the role false flags have played in…
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The Round Rock Interviews: Dustin Clark
Dustin Clark joins me for this episode of Discourses, continuing the Round Rock saga. Like the previous one, this interview isn’t paywalled because it deserves as large an audience as it can get. I wrote about Dustin in my story on Texas’ Potemkin village of conservatism. Here’s a quick recap…
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The Round Rock Interviews: Mary Bone
I wrote in November for Chronicles about parents fighting against a Texas school district. Even deep in the heart of the Lone Star State, parents are up against mask mandates for their kids and much more. While the Texas GOP continues to dawdle, school boards are raising armies to enforce their...
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Rittenhouse and the Black Lives Matter Riots
Last week’s episode was received well so I decided to do another. This one is based on reporting that I’ve published on the riots and the Trump administration. New content for paying subscribers is coming out this week. I sat down for an interview with Malcom Kyeyune, a writer, podcaster, and...
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No Country for White Men
Here are my brief thoughts on the case of Kyle Rittenhouse compared to two other incidents that have been suppressed or memory-holed because the perpetrators involved were not white and did not fit neatly within popular victim-offender narratives. This is the reality of the American system, and...
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