Episodes
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412 / The Kids Are Alright / Alley Valkyrie
Alley Valkyrie returns to discuss the largest student-led demonstrations in France since 1968. These massive, weeks-long protests are led by teenagers attending the nation’s public high schools, which are in abysmal shape due to severe austerity measures implemented by the Emmanuel Macron...
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Preview / The Kids Are Alright / Alley Valkyrie
Alley Valkyrie returns to discuss the largest student-led demonstrations in France since 1968. These massive, weeks-long protests are led by teenagers attending the nation’s public high schools, which are in abysmal shape due to severe austerity measures implemented by the Emmanuel Macron...
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411 / Antifascist Caregiving / Matthew Remski
Matthew Remski returns to the program to discuss his book and podcast, Antifascist Dad—navigating parenting and building and drawing on communities of resistance in our fascist moment. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-3 // Sustain + support:...
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Preview / Antifascist Caregiving / Matthew Remski
Matthew Remski returns to the program to discuss his book and podcast, Antifascist Dad—navigating parenting and building and drawing on communities of resistance in our fascist moment. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness //…
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410 / Earth’s Greatest Enemy, Earth’s Greatest Defenders / Abby Martin + Dahr Jamail
Abby Martin and Dahr Jamail join me to discuss their collaboration on Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a documentary that takes on the planet’s biggest polluter: the US military. // Episode notes + video: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/martin-jamail // Sustain + support:...
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Preview / Earth’s Greatest Enemy, Earth’s Greatest Defenders / Abby Martin + Dahr Jamail
Abby Martin and Dahr Jamail join me to discuss their collaboration on Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a documentary that takes on the planet’s biggest polluter: the US military. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe:...
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409 / How Big Oil Buys Silence / Mirna Wabi-Sabi
Journalist, author, and translator Mirna Wabi-Sabi returns to the program. We go over her recent investigation into how the Brazilian majority state-owned company, Petrobras, silences scientific findings into the ecological impacts of its exploratory and extraction operations and its outsized...
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Preview / How Big Oil Buys Silence / Mirna Wabi-Sabi
Journalist, author, and translator Mirna Wabi-Sabi returns to the program. We go over her recent investigation into how the Brazilian majority state-owned company, Petrobras, silences scientific findings into the ecological impacts of its exploratory and extraction operations and its outsized...
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408 / Godzilla El Niño / Eliot Jacobson
Professor Eliot Jacobson returns to discuss the currently developing and unprecedented El Niño event, elaborating on what makes this culminating event so alarming and devastating. Our discussion is a bit of an explainer of how this fits into broader climatological trends and how we can comport...
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Preview / Godzilla El Niño / Eliot Jacobson
Professor Eliot Jacobson returns to discuss the currently developing and unprecedented El Niño event, elaborating on what makes this culminating event so alarming and devastating. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe:...
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407 / The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s SEIGE / Spencer Sunshine
Author and researcher Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss his 2024 book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege, published by Routledge. We also touch on the Prairieland defendants case, operational security, and the second...
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Preview / The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s SEIGE / Spencer Sunshine
Author and researcher Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss his 2024 book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege, published by Routledge. // Support the work + listen to the full interview:...
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406 / Martial Arts as Liberation / Sam, LMA
Sam from Liberation Martial Arts articulates and demonstrates his pedagogic approach to martial arts training, rooted in anti-authoritarian and decolonial theory and praxis. LMA is intended to be liberatory. What does that mean? Is martial arts, as it’s broadly defined and commonly practiced and...
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Preview / Martial Arts as Liberation / Sam, LMA
Sam from Liberation Martial Arts joins me to discuss how martial arts can be a truly liberatory body practice. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000
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405 / Why Iran is Winning / Indrajit Samarajiva
I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of…
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Preview / Why Iran is Winning / Indrajit Samarajiva
I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of…
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404 / How We Speak of Animals / Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. We begin by discussing the theme of Kollibri’s essay, Stop Insulting Animals: We must own our own culture and selves, a piece that...
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Preview / How We Speak of Animals / Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. They’re the author of several books on the intersections of ecology and human society, and they write for the newsletter, Speaking…
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403 / The Complicit Lens / Robin Andersen
Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Complicit Lens is a meticulously documented, searing indictment of the US legacy...
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Preview / The Complicit Lens / Robin Andersen
Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. // Support the work + listen to the full interview:...
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402 / Scapegoat / Clare Follmann
Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying...
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Preview / Scapegoat / Clare Follmann
Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying...
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401 / Sycophantic AI and the Attack on Iran / Peter Byrne
Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project...
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Preview / Sycophantic AI and the Attack on Iran / Peter Byrne
Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project...
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400 / The World of Red Dust / Dare Carrasquillo
For episode 400 of Last Born In The Wilderness, Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises...
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Preview / The World of Red Dust / Dare Carrasquillo
Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so…
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399 / An Evidence-Based Comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 / Špela Šalamon
I'm joined by Dr. Špela Šalamon, Nuclear Medicine Specialist Physician and biomedical scientist. She has contributed to global efforts in understanding and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 and published several papers addressing the risks following COVID-19 infections, emphasizing the necessity...
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Preview / An Evidence-Based Comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 / Špela Šalamon
Dr. Špela Šalamon joined me to provide an evidence-based comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, based on a review she co-authored and published for AJPM Focus: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? // Support the work + listen to the...
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398 / The Groypers Ascendant / Ben Lorber
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...
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Preview / The Groypers Ascendant / Ben Lorber
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...
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397 / Digital Settler-Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
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,...
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Preview / Digital Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah
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,...
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396 / Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan
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…
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Preview / Long Covid Is Changing an Entire Generation / Eli Cahan
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…
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395 / Wakara’s America / Max Perry Mueller
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...
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Preview / Wakara's America / Max Perry Mueller
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...
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Preview / You will be disappointed, and that's okay.
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...
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394 / Luigi / John H. Richardson
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…
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Preview / Luigi / John H. Richardson
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
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393 / Political Violence / Shane Burley
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:...
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392 / Radical Antiquity / Christopher B. Zeichmann
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...
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Preview / Political Violence / Shane Burley
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...
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Preview / Radical Antiquity / Christopher B. Zeichmann
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:...
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391 / Extraction / Thea Riofrancos
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,...
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Preview / Extraction / Thea Riofrancos
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
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390 / Impasse / Roy Scranton
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...
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Preview / Impasse / Roy Scranton
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
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389 / Fascist Yoga / Stewart Home
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 //...
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Preview / Fascist Yoga / Stewart Home
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:...
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388 / The Shifting Global Order / John Feffer
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...