All Episodes
Diet Soap - a podcast — 121 episodes
Episode 706: Socialism as Defined by a Billionaire and Vivek Chibber
Episode 705: Ralph Leonard on birthright citizenship
Episode 704: What Can We Learn From the Soviet Avant-Garde?
Episode 703: Adorno on Class Politics and Late Capitalism
Episode 702: Why Has Elite Theory Captured the Left?
Episode 701: Spencer Leonard on the Jacobins
Episode 700: Wagner the Revolutionary
Episode 699: The New DSA and the Death of the Left
Episode 698: What if Reality is Real?
Episode 697: Chris Cutrone on the MOU
Episode 696: Fatal Friends: Did The US Eat Europe?
Episode 695: Spencer Leonard Discusses America
Episode 694: Is KITSCH All There Is?
Episode 693: Cutrone Responds to Rockhill's Fans
Episode 692: Decoding Chomsky and Epstein
Episode 691: Cutrone's New Film: The Last Election
Episode 690: History, Acting, and Perception
Episode 689: From China to the World
Episode 688: Protestantism Exported to Africa
Episode 687: Project Freedom? (War is Politics by Other Means)
Episode 686: An Example of Petulant Millennial Statism
Episode 685: Spencer Leonard on Why Rousseau Still Matters
Episode 684: Jeffrey Epstein's Necrophilia
Episode 683: Chris Cutrone on Trump's Version of "Regime Change"
Episode 682: Noam Chomsky and an Emasculated Left?
Episode 681: Spencer Leonard on Habermas
Episode 680: Chris Cutrone on the Democrats and Iran
Episode 679: Analyzing the FRIENDS Technique
Episode 678: Reproductive Freedom in a Wrong Life?
Episode 677: Cutrone asks: What if the US wins?
Episode 676: The Death of Habermas
Episode 675: Iran Still Under the Islamist Thumb
Episode 674: The Anti-War Movement?
Episode 673: Trump's Plan for Iran is Rational and Coherent
Episode 672: How To React Without a Left?
Episode 671: C Wright Mills & Sociology's Problem With Marx
Episode 670: Why Socialists Should LOVE America
Episode 669: Try Being Civil?
Episode 668: Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover
Episode 667: Is Trump Ushering In an AI Dystopia?
Episode 666: Are You ALREADY Dead?
Episode 665: Chris Cutrone on IRAN
Episode 664: Chris Cutrone on Jared Kushner and Gaza
Episode 663: Spencer Leonard on Trump's Attacks on the Left
Episode 662: Did Marxism Die With Charlie Kirk?
Episode 661: Why We Can't Think About Charlie Kirk
Episode 660: After Charlie Kirk: a Strategy of Tension?
Episode 659: Forming a Socialist Cult, Forming a Socialist Strategy
Episode 658: How to Debate a Zoomer "Liberal"
Episode 657: Leftist Theory in Crisis: Wallerstein’s Unfulfilled Transition
Episode 656: Finkelstein, Burgis & McManus Misunderstand Marx
Episode 655: Why International Law Won't Help Gaza
Episode 654: A Call for Socialist Unity
Episode 653: The Left is Stuck in a Time Loop with Zohran
Episode 652: What Musk and Trump Still Have in Common
Episode 651: Are We Still Living After the End of History?
Episode 650: What is History?
Episode 649: Big Beautiful Politics (Same as it Ever Was?)
Episode 648: The Last Marxist Explains the conflict with IRAN
Episode 647: How Socialists Should Understand American Conservatism
Episode 646: Bonapartism is not Bonaparte
Episode 645: The Discreet Charm of the PMC
Episode 644: History, Matter, Marx
Episode 643: When Critical Theory is Confirmed
Episode 642: Chris Cutrone is Always Right, and Always Depressed
Episode 641: Trump Wins Again and Again?
Episode 640: Neither the US nor China
Episode 639: How Society Got a Sex Change
Episode 638: Studebaker Says Democracies Can Cry
Episode 637: Tariffs and Thought Taboos
Episode 636: The Prophecy of Walter Kirn
Episode 635: Can We Critique Rather than Complain?
Episode 634: Shibboleths, Customs, and Lies
Episode 633: What did Marx think about the American Civil War?
Episode 632: Trump's Tariffs Are Smart?
Episode 631: Tariffs, First Amendement, and Due Process
Episode 630: Understanding the Marxist Revisionism Dispute
Episode 629: Do Young Americans Have a Manifest Destiny?
Episode 628: Trump is ENDING Neoliberalism as the Left WATCHES
Episode 627: Experiencing the Symptoms of the Left
Episode 626: Horkheimer on Reason, Egoism, and Freedom
Episode 625: From FAKE NEWS to a FAKE WORLD
Episode 624: A New World Order or a New Chaos?
Episode 623: Unpacking Anti-Imperialism and the Labor Aristocracy
Episode 622: Arturo Vs. Grok 3- Fact Checking Redux!
Episode 621: Should the Democrats Cooperate with RFK Jr?
Episode 620: Information Overload and Demagoguery
Episode 619: On Trump's Plan for Gaza
Episode 618: A Marxist Platypus?
Episode 617: Elon Musk and His Lost Boys Take Over the World
Episode 616: On Marx's Critique of Political Economy
Episode 615: Trump, Tariffs, and Executive Orders
Episode 614: Quentin S Crisp Remembers Hamsters
Episode 613: Why Are Conservatives so WOKE for Israel?
Episode 612: Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and the New Trump Era
Episode 611: Did Chris Cutrone Jump the Shark?
Episode 610: Jacob Shell talks Geography and Trump
Episode 609: Greenland, Canada, Panama and the MAGA Monroe Doctrine
Episode 608: What is "Bonapartism"?
Episode 607: Reid Kane on Marx and the followers of Postone
Episode 606: Recapping 2024 with Derick Varn
Episode 605: Leaving Woke, Finding Peace
Episode 604: Lukács, Literature, and Cutrone
Episode 603: Drones, Assassins, and Pseudo-Events
Episode 602: Is Transgender a Sexual Orientation?
Episode 601: Spencer Leonard asks "Is Capitalism Ending Itself?"
Episode 600: Chris Cutrone on Chris Cutrone
Episode 599: Daniel Tutt, Anti-Imperialism, and the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer vs. Losurdo)
Episode 598: Leaving the Left to Find God?
Episode 597: The Penultimate Ashley Frawley Episode
Episode 596: The Mass Psychology of Capitalist Politics
Episode 595: Is There a Censorship Industrial Complex?
Episode 594: Trump Won (What now?)
Episode 593: Will There Be A Trumptastic Censorship Industrial Complex?
Episode 592: Avoiding Hysteria in These Final Days
Episode 591: The SECRET Meaning of the 2024 Election
Episode 590: Elon Musk: How Oligarchs are Controlling America
Episode 589: Do We NEED A PARANOID Politics?
Episode 588: Can we ESCAPE the Society of the SPECTACLE?
Episode 587: Rethinking the Millennial COMMUNIST Moment
Episode 586: Where is there HOPE for Socialism?