Common once said, “My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones.” That line has always hit home for me.This episode is about what it means to grow up between struggle and success — to carry both stories inside you and figure out how to honor them both.My parents worked at the United States Postal Service. They were solid, steady people who built their lives around reliability. But when they divorced, everything shifted. Our plans fell apart, and so did our sense of safety. My mom went from

What are the psychological aspects of how military combat personnel are often socialized in training to feel more comfortable with carrying out acts of violence? Why is it important to note that many people, not just those in positions of power, actually desire fascism and power imbalance, and aren't simply operating from states of being deceived?In this episode, we speak with John Protevi of Regimes of Violence: Toward a political anthropology.Join us as we explore the nuances of violence

Is the legacy of 20th century Marxism one of victory or defeat? On a certain reading, the defeat of the international proletarian revolution has been the distinctive preoccupation of a variegated tradition of thought that has come to be known as Western Marxism. For critics, Western Marxism represents a turn away from historical materialism’s proper focus on forces of production, class struggle, and the unity of theory and practice towards the superstructure of capitalist civilization: ideolo...

Welcome to our (very) haunted Halloween Special. We’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right time. In the first half, listen to the chilling, remarkable story of a childhood haunting. What starts as an early encounter with a long-haired figure in the shadows escalates into possession, physical attacks, and a deeply unsettling episode of missing time in a bathroom. (Good luck sleeping tonight.) Then, in the second half, we talk to the woman that child became

A freezing winter night, a scampering creature in the corner of a cabin, and a supper one man would live just long enough to regret. This is, the story of The Taily-Po.