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Diet Soap - a podcast — 104 episodes

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Episode 689: From China to the World

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Episode 688: Protestantism Exported to Africa

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Episode 687: Project Freedom? (War is Politics by Other Means)

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Episode 686: An Example of Petulant Millennial Statism

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Episode 685: Spencer Leonard on Why Rousseau Still Matters

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Episode 684: Jeffrey Epstein's Necrophilia

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Episode 683: Chris Cutrone on Trump's Version of "Regime Change"

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Episode 682: Noam Chomsky and an Emasculated Left?

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Episode 681: Spencer Leonard on Habermas

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Episode 680: Chris Cutrone on the Democrats and Iran

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Episode 679: Analyzing the FRIENDS Technique

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Episode 678: Reproductive Freedom in a Wrong Life?

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Episode 677: Cutrone asks: What if the US wins?

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Episode 676: The Death of Habermas

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Episode 675: Iran Still Under the Islamist Thumb

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Episode 674: The Anti-War Movement?

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Episode 673: Trump's Plan for Iran is Rational and Coherent

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Episode 672: How To React Without a Left?

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Episode 671: C Wright Mills & Sociology's Problem With Marx

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Episode 670: Why Socialists Should LOVE America

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Episode 669: Try Being Civil?

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Episode 668: Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover

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Episode 667: Is Trump Ushering In an AI Dystopia?

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Episode 666: Are You ALREADY Dead?

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Episode 665: Chris Cutrone on IRAN

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Episode 664: Chris Cutrone on Jared Kushner and Gaza

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Episode 663: Spencer Leonard on Trump's Attacks on the Left

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Episode 662: Did Marxism Die With Charlie Kirk?

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Episode 661: Why We Can't Think About Charlie Kirk

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Episode 660: After Charlie Kirk: a Strategy of Tension?

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Episode 659: Forming a Socialist Cult, Forming a Socialist Strategy

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Episode 658: How to Debate a Zoomer "Liberal"

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Episode 657: Leftist Theory in Crisis: Wallerstein’s Unfulfilled Transition

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Episode 656: Finkelstein, Burgis & McManus Misunderstand Marx

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Episode 655: Why International Law Won't Help Gaza

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Episode 654: A Call for Socialist Unity

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Episode 653: The Left is Stuck in a Time Loop with Zohran

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Episode 652: What Musk and Trump Still Have in Common

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Episode 651: Are We Still Living After the End of History?

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Episode 650: What is History?

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Episode 649: Big Beautiful Politics (Same as it Ever Was?)

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Episode 648: The Last Marxist Explains the conflict with IRAN

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Episode 647: How Socialists Should Understand American Conservatism

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Episode 646: Bonapartism is not Bonaparte

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Episode 645: The Discreet Charm of the PMC

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Episode 644: History, Matter, Marx

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Episode 643: When Critical Theory is Confirmed

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Episode 642: Chris Cutrone is Always Right, and Always Depressed

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Episode 641: Trump Wins Again and Again?

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Episode 640: Neither the US nor China

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Episode 639: How Society Got a Sex Change

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Episode 638: Studebaker Says Democracies Can Cry

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Episode 637: Tariffs and Thought Taboos

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Episode 636: The Prophecy of Walter Kirn

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Episode 635: Can We Critique Rather than Complain?

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Episode 634: Shibboleths, Customs, and Lies

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Episode 633: What did Marx think about the American Civil War?

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Episode 632: Trump's Tariffs Are Smart?

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Episode 631: Tariffs, First Amendement, and Due Process

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Episode 630: Understanding the Marxist Revisionism Dispute

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Episode 629: Do Young Americans Have a Manifest Destiny?

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Episode 628: Trump is ENDING Neoliberalism as the Left WATCHES

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Episode 627: Experiencing the Symptoms of the Left

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Episode 626: Horkheimer on Reason, Egoism, and Freedom

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Episode 625: From FAKE NEWS to a FAKE WORLD

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Episode 624: A New World Order or a New Chaos?

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Episode 623: Unpacking Anti-Imperialism and the Labor Aristocracy

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Episode 622: Arturo Vs. Grok 3- Fact Checking Redux!

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Episode 621: Should the Democrats Cooperate with RFK Jr?

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Episode 620: Information Overload and Demagoguery

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Episode 619: On Trump's Plan for Gaza

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Episode 618: A Marxist Platypus?

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Episode 617: Elon Musk and His Lost Boys Take Over the World

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Episode 616: On Marx's Critique of Political Economy

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Episode 615: Trump, Tariffs, and Executive Orders

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Episode 614: Quentin S Crisp Remembers Hamsters

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Episode 613: Why Are Conservatives so WOKE for Israel?

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Episode 612: Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and the New Trump Era

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Episode 611: Did Chris Cutrone Jump the Shark?

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Episode 610: Jacob Shell talks Geography and Trump

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Episode 609: Greenland, Canada, Panama and the MAGA Monroe Doctrine

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Episode 608: What is "Bonapartism"?

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Episode 607: Reid Kane on Marx and the followers of Postone

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Episode 606: Recapping 2024 with Derick Varn

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Episode 605: Leaving Woke, Finding Peace

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Episode 604: Lukács, Literature, and Cutrone

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Episode 603: Drones, Assassins, and Pseudo-Events

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Episode 602: Is Transgender a Sexual Orientation?

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Episode 601: Spencer Leonard asks "Is Capitalism Ending Itself?"

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Episode 600: Chris Cutrone on Chris Cutrone

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Episode 599: Daniel Tutt, Anti-Imperialism, and the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer vs. Losurdo)

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Episode 598: Leaving the Left to Find God?

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Episode 597: The Penultimate Ashley Frawley Episode

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Episode 596: The Mass Psychology of Capitalist Politics

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Episode 595: Is There a Censorship Industrial Complex?

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Episode 594: Trump Won (What now?)

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Episode 593: Will There Be A Trumptastic Censorship Industrial Complex?

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Episode 592: Avoiding Hysteria in These Final Days

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Episode 591: The SECRET Meaning of the 2024 Election

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Episode 590: Elon Musk: How Oligarchs are Controlling America

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Episode 589: Do We NEED A PARANOID Politics?

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Episode 588: Can we ESCAPE the Society of the SPECTACLE?

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Episode 587: Rethinking the Millennial COMMUNIST Moment

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Episode 586: Where is there HOPE for Socialism?