Podcast appearances and mentions of Camille Paglia

Our look at the New Queer Cinema continues with the first feature directed by an out Black lesbian, Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman! Join in as we discuss our favorite mockumentaries, the film's semiprofessional cast, its discussion of interracial relationships, and that incredible Camille Paglia scene. Plus: Why didn't Dunye use actual period photos? What exactly is Diana (Guinevere Turner) doing with her life? And how did this movie cause yet more conflict for the National Endowment for the Arts? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: Smallfoot (2018) and Abominable (2019) ---------------------------------------------------------Key sources and links for this episode:"The Watermelon Woman at 25" (BFI)"Slice of Life: The Watermelon Woman Refreshes" (Boston Phoenix)"The NEA Gets Gay-Bashed" (The Advocate)"Cheryl Dunye's Alternative Histories" (Interview Magazine)"The Radical Classic that's Finally Coming to the Criterion Collection" (Slate)"The Real History of Rent" (OUT Magazine)

Two films about books about female empowerment. One of these films is more empowering than the other.   Sex & The Single Girl Year: 1964 Screenplay by: Joseph Heller and David R. Schwartz Story by: Joseph Hoffman Based on the book by: Helen Gurley Brown Uncredited writer: Leslie H. Martinson Directed by: Richard Quine Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall   Down With Love Year: 2003 Written by: Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake Directed by: Peyton Reed Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Sarah Paulson, David Hyde Pierce   Show notes: This month compare and despair returns to the Rom Com Rewrite! The plot summaries for these films take up a good portion of the beginning of this episode. If you would like to skip them you can spool forward a little over 23 minutes into the episode.   In this episode we mention the films: The Pink Panther (1963) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057413/) What's Up Doc (1972) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069495/) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251127/) Bridget Jones's Diary* (2001) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/) Chicago (2002) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299658/) Moulin Rouge (2001) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/)   And the TV series: The Judy Garland Show (1963-1964) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056767/)   And also the book Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia (1990) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Personae).   *Films marked with an asterisk have previously been featured on the podcast.   If you would like to suggest films for future episodes, you can tweet Lisa: @LisaStowaway. We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.   Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzalzaustwick.com). Artwork is by Lisa Findley.   Thank you for listening! 

Dr. Drew brings up newly reported side effects tied to weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, sparking a broader conversation about health trends. Adam goes on a series of classic rants—covering everything from food delivery culture to his theories on social dynamics and everyday habits. The guys then get into a deeper discussion about morality in modern society, differences in how men and women approach fitness and health, and react to a clip of Camille Paglia on why there are no great female artists. They wrap things up by revisiting Adam's Burt Reynolds experiment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In light of the Colorado Supreme Court case Charles v. Salazar and prior conversation with Julia Sadusky and other conversations with Side X guests, we dig into Conversion Therapy (also called Reparative or Reintegrative Therapy), particularly how it intersects notions around the fluidity of sexuality. Reports on sexual fluidity opens new questions to the ethics of conversation therapies, and maybe different analysis has to why the “change is possible” narratives (e.g. Exodus Ministries) were so destructive. But maybe alternative approaches like “bisexual responsiveness” via Camille Paglia (see the linked Cracks in Postmodernity essay) suggest a different outlook on the whole affair, and open doors to intriguing considerations of the queer experience and same-sex friendship/romantic friendship.References:A fascinating article with so many intriguing quotes:Cracks in Postmodernity: Conversion Therapy vs. Bisexual ResponsivenessOur episodes about/with Side X guests:#54 - Side B & Side X in Dialogue: With Jason Thompson from Portland Fellowship#48 - What Is Transformation? with Agape First Ministries#41 - Unexpected Shifts: Josh's Story of Prayer, Healing, and Attraction#35 - Marco Casanova on Integration, Healing, and OrientationTime Stamps:00:00 Have you thought of joining us at Revoice?02:31 Kinship Lab on Conversion Therapy04:09 Sexual Fluidity Debate06:33 Tyler's Harvard Story10:46 Exodus and Pray Away Documentary14:39 Modern Reorientation Claims19:14 Identity Versus Desire/Attraction24:25 Side B Growth and Chastity28:19 Defining Attraction, Sanctification and Bisexual Responsiveness35:36 On Noticing Beauty and Desire40:53 Paglia and Rigid Labels45:50 Sexual Category Origins, Queer Identity, and Fluidity51:29 Friendship Versus Therapy57:14 Chastity and Same Sex Love01:04:35 Romantic Friendship Debate01:06:07 Humility and Closing Thoughts Get full access to New Kinship at newkinship.substack.com/subscribe

Neste episódio, exploramos o mito de Anat, uma das figuras mais inquietantes da tradição do antigo Oriente Próximo. Partindo de sua relação com Baal, mergulhamos em uma narrativa onde celebração, violência e êxtase se entrelaçam, revelando uma lógica simbólica em que criação e destruição não se opõem, mas se completam.A partir das leituras de Mircea Eliade, traçamos paralelos com outras tradições, especialmente com a figura de Durga, evidenciando a recorrência de deusas que destroem para regenerar. O episódio também dialoga com interpretações modernas, passando pelas reflexões de Camille Paglia e Sigmund Freud, que buscam compreender essas imagens à luz da psicologia e da cultura.Entre carnificina, canibalismo e transe, o mito de Anat é apresentado não como um excesso isolado, mas como expressão de uma estrutura simbólica profunda, ligada aos ciclos da natureza e às tensões entre ordem e caos.Um episódio sobre violência, fertilidade e os limites do humano diante das forças que o ultrapassam.

Father James Martin SJ joins the pod to discuss his new book ‘Work in Progress,' polarization in the Catholic Church, trad zoomers, intergenerational dialogue, and his encounter with Camille Paglia. Follow us on Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/ Check out Fr. Martin's book https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/jamesmartin 

Father James Martin SJ joins the pod to discuss his new book ‘Work in Progress,' polarization in the Catholic Church, trad zoomers, intergenerational dialogue, and his encounter with Camille Paglia. Follow us on Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/ Check out Fr. Martin's book https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/jamesmartin 

For a century, Judy Garland's joyous and vulnerable singing voice has captivated audiences at the theatre, over the airwaves and in the cinema. Camille Paglia wrote of her that she ‘became an emblematic personality of her time, into whom the mass audience projected its hopes and disappointments'. Bee Wilson joins Malin Hay to discuss Garland's years at MGM Studios, where she was mistreated and overworked by her employers but also made some of her best pictures, growing from a contract player into a star. They discuss whether Garland's work at MGM was worth the pain it caused her, who her greatest collaborators were, and who now owns her story. Listen to Bee read her pieces in the audiobook Complicated Women, which includes an introductory conversation between Bee and Malin: https://lrb.me/audiobookspod From the LRB Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subslrbpod Close Readings podcast: ⁠https://lrb.me/crlrbpod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠https://lrb.me/storelrbpod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk

 Sidney Davidson was the colorist on a series I got to illustrate (with writer Mark Russell) called Vanishing Point.  I invited him to be a guest on the show and he suggested The Maxx, which is among the most formative comics of my experience as a reader. I couldn't wait to talk about it with him!  Does it hold up?  How does it read differently as an adult than as an adolescent?  Did any of the other Image books reference Camille Paglia?  Find out in this episode! Here's a link to The Runs Comics Podcast on iTunes.  And here's the link to the show on Spotify. Be sure to subscribe, rate and review! And here's a link if you'd like the stream the episode.  

In the last two episodes of our Kanreki tribute last month to the life and work of Joanne Rowling Murray, a.k.a., ‘J. K. Rowling' and ‘Robert Galbraith,' as celebration of her 60th birthday, we first explored perhaps the most ubiquitous and mysterious ‘Golden Thread' that runs through her work, namely, that of a ‘Lost Child.' We reviewed the forty plus appearances of this plot point in the just over twenty books she's written and searched for possible ‘Lake' sources in her life for this persistent, prevalent, and essential plot point.The most credible but entirely speculative possibility was that Rowling had had an induced abortion during her relationship with ‘Michael,' her off-and-on for seven years boyfriend from Exeter. On Rowling's birthday, we discussed the value this possibility has for interpreting her work, specifically in understanding the Harry Potter novels; most notably, the hypothesis would explain why every book features the exteriorization of something dangerous or deadly within and its beneficent elimination. In brief, the Hogwarts Saga, when read through this unresolved issue of Rowling's unconscious mind, seems to have been inspired and written as a defense for the intentional death of her child. In addition to explaining how this view of induced abortion as simultaneously necessary for women and the murder of an innocent, defenseless, and voiceless human being is the view of contrarian feminists such as Germaine Greer and Camille Paglia, we offered the Induced Abortion Hypothesis as the most obvious explanation for the Lost Child Golden Thread and demonstrated its potential critical value, if true. We asked repeatedly for listeners to share their objections to the hypothesis as well as alternative explanations for the Lost Child Golden Thread.And you did!The listeners who had followed us through the thirty-one Kanreki Lake and Shed conversations voiced in the comments beneath those posts both their discomfort with the idea and their admiration for the sober way we presented it. There were three challenging responses, as well, to our request for alternative explanations to the Lost Child Golden Thread: an argument from the biological make-up and consequent concerns of women everywhere, the point that “exteriorization of an evil within for elimination” is at least as easily read allegorically for the Christian doctrines of original sin and grace, and a find that the Gloria Conti story, the only explicit abortion narrative in Rowling's work, was lifted straight from The Godfather, Part 2. [See below for links to the sources of these three alternatives.]We discuss these three alternative ideas in the video above, their strengths and weaknesses, and applaud the one listener who shored up[ the weakest part of the Induced Abortion Hypothesis reading of Harry Potter, namely, how Prisoner of Azkaban fits the ‘exteriorization for elimination' pattern in that series. We close with thoughts about the imminent arrival of Hallmarked Man and our first thoughts of how we will be reading it at Hogwarts Professor — the subject of our next conversation in addition to our thoughts about the first releases and conflicting synopses for Strike8 that are in circulation.Please share your thoughts about alternative theories for the Lost Child Golden Thread and your ideas about how you would like us to cover Hallmarked Man. Thank you, as always, for joining us and for your support!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Links to Alternative Explanations for the Lost Child Golden ThreadNikolaus Wandinger, Christoph Drexler, and Teresa Peter: The Christian Alternative Theory to the Induced Abortion Hypothesis (June 2004)* Harry Potter and the Art of Theology 1: A Theological Perspective on J. K. Rowling's novels - Part One: Healing, Grace and Original Sin* Harry Potter and the Art of Theology 2: A Theological Perspective on J. K. Rowling's novels - Part Two: Sacrifice and MissionAurore's argument from the Biological Facts of Life about Being a Woman:* Whether or not Rowling herself has had an abortion, I think it makes sense she'd want to comment on the topic given her golden threads about violence against women & girls, pregnancy traps, and mothers' love.* It occurred to me after writing that comment: I don't think a woman has to have personally experienced an abortion to have spent most of her life thinking about the subject… I reckon a big part of the female psyche, from the time one is a girl, is a strange combination of awe and terror at the fact that falling pregnant is a power we have, but not necessarily one we can guarantee will always be in our control. * In my country, a 2023 landmark study showed 1/3 girls are victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse. But much more mundane than sexual and domestic abuse, I've known straight friends to fall pregnant by accident, even while using contraception. * I think it's a very unique issue in a girl or a woman's psyche because, on the one hand it is one of the worst possible consequences of rape, and therefore is part of women's (as Mad Eye would say) constant vigilance about the threat and reality of male-pattern violence. But on the other hand, and however an individual woman feels about children, it is something both inspiring and grave. As Spider-Man's Uncle Ben said, “with great power comes great responsibility!”.David Martin about The Godfather 2 as the Model for Gloria Conti's Abortion in Troubled Blood* In re Gloria Conti's abortion that Margo arranged for her: You will recall that Gloria Conti became interested in what seemed to her to be the “glamourous” Mafioso lifestyle by seeing the film The Godfather (1972). It may be worth noting that at the end of the film The Godfather: Part II (1974) Michael Corleone believes that his wife, Kay Corleone, has had a miscarriage and that her sorrow over that miscarriage is what has made her depressed. In an angry rant Kay tells him instead that she had an abortion, aborting what would have been his son, because she does not want his crime family to go on and she wants out. So – We have two (fictional) women, each seeking to limit or escape their involvement with a mobster and using the same means to do it. Even if Gloria Conti did not see The Godfather: Part II it's perfectly possible – perhaps even likely – that JKR did and so may have borrowed a bit of the plot.* "Strike paid in pain for the walk through the woods at Chiswell House the next morning. So little did he fancy getting up out of bed and heading downstairs to work on a Sunday that he was forced to remind himself that, like the character of Hyman Roth in one of his favourite films, he had chosen this business freely. If, like the Mafia, private detection made demands beyond the ordinary, certain concomitants had to be accepted along with the rewards." Lethal White ch 45Ed Shardlow's Prisoner of Azkaban Notes supporting Induced Abortion Hypothesis* Hi ladies and gents, I've been on holiday and just catching up on the end of the Kanreki series. I see that Snake Wood wasn't the big reveal because you were saving that for the final chapter!* Even the penultimate episode enumerating all the lost children and speculating on that theme's lake origins didn't dilute the impact of seeing how the classic Rowling themes of coercive relationships, motherly love, pregnancy traps, the protection of family and so on, not only come together in that one golden thread, but how it does indeed illuminate the whole HP series. * It certainly has the ring of truth for me. It certainly explains why morality and mortality are the crucial core to its meaning. The last episode was definitely one of those lightbulb-moment experiences for me. Love it!* I feel like there may be more abortion analogies in Azkaban... Perhaps the wolf inside Remus? I think there's something quite uterine about the shrieking shack... And maybe something obstetric? There's also the execution of the innocent Buckbeak. And the Dementors taking the souls of their victims, against whom the remedy is a reassuring and inspiring Patronus. Perhaps that's the embodiment of the good dad, saving the innocents under their guardianship.* This thread also offers another interpretation of The Christmas Pig - the traumatically obliterated DP, forever consigned to the land of the lost, and the replacement CP, carrying the love of his lost brother. Get full access to Hogwarts Professor at hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comPaul is a writer, an editor, and an old friend. He's a regular contributor to The New Yorker and a senior fellow in Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He's the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach, and his new book is The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s.For two clips of our convo — on Martin Scorsese's extraordinary religious films, and the strikingly resilient Catholicism of Andy Warhol — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: Paul raised in upstate NY as a child of Vatican II; his great-uncle was the bishop of Burlington who attended the 2nd Council; Thomas Merton and Flannery O'Connor as formative influences; working in publishing with McPhee and Wolfe; Cullen Murphy on the historical Christ; Jesus as tetchy; Czesław Miłosz; Leonard Cohen making it cool to be religious; the row over The Last Temptation of Christ and Scorsese's response with Silence; Bill Donahue the South Park caricature; Bono and U2; The Smiths; The Velvet Underground; Madonna and her Catholic upbringing; “Like A Prayer” and “Papa Don't Preach”; her campaign for condom use; when I accidentally met her at a party; Camille Paglia; Warhol the iconographer; his near-death experience that led to churchgoing; Robert Mapplethorpe; S&M culture in NYC; Andres Serrano's “Piss Christ”; Jesse Helms' crusade against the NEA; Sinead O'Connor's refusal to get an abortion; tearing up the JP II photo on SNL; the sex-abuse crisis; Cardinal O'Connor; the AIDS crisis; ACT-UP's antics at St. Patrick's Cathedral; the AIDS quilt as a cathedral; and Paul's gobsmacking omission of the Pet Shop Boys.Coming up: Edward Luce on the war with Iran, Walter Isaacson on Ben Franklin, Tara Zahra on the revolt against globalization after WWI, Thomas Mallon on the AIDS crisis, and Johann Hari turning the tables to interview me. (NS Lyons indefinitely postponed a pod appearance — and his own substack — because he just accepted an appointment at the State Department; and the Arthur Brooks pod is postponed because of calendar conflicts.) Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Send us a textThis week, Sini is joined by his friend Lucas out at a bar one Saturday night to discuss Camille Paglia's book on art history and visual culture, Glittering Images.Follow Lucas on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetothose.shadows/And over on paid feed, we have a special episode of Back Matter featuring Cody LaDuke and Psi from Rare Candy podcast who join Sini and Fresta to discuss George Lucas' Revenge of the Sith, and nerd out a bit on Star Wars in general.Support the show

So why did Harris lose in 2024? For one very big reason, according to the progressive essayist Bill Deresiewicz: “because she represented the exhausted Democratic establishment”. This rotting establishment, Deresiewicz believes, is symbolized by both the collective denial of Biden's mental decline and by Harris' pathetically rudderless Presidential campaign. But there's a much more troubling problem with the Democratic party, he argues. It has become “the party of institutionalized liberalism, which is itself exhausted”. So how to reinvent American liberalism in the 2020's? How to make the left once again, in Deresiewicz words, “the locus of openness, playfulness, productive contention, experiment, excess, risk, shock, camp, mirth, mischief, irony and curiosity"? That's the question for all progressives in our MAGA/Woke age. 5 Key Takeaways * Deresiewicz believes the Democratic establishment and aligned media engaged in a "tacit cover-up" of Biden's condition and other major issues like crime, border policies, and pandemic missteps rather than addressing them honestly.* The liberal movement that began in the 1960s has become "exhausted" and the Democratic Party is now an uneasy alliance of establishment elites and working-class voters whose interests don't align well.* Progressive institutions suffer from a repressive intolerance characterized by "an unearned sense of moral superiority" and a fear of vitality that leads to excessive rules, bureaucracy, and speech codes.* While young conservatives are creating new movements with energy and creativity, the progressive establishment stifles innovation by purging anyone who "violates the code" or criticizes their side.* Rebuilding the left requires creating conditions for new ideas by ending censoriousness, embracing true courage that risks something real, and potentially building new institutions rather than trying to reform existing ones. Full Transcript Andrew Keen: Hello, everyone. It's the old question on this show, Keen on America, how to make sense of this bewildering, frustrating, exciting country in the wake, particularly of the last election. A couple of years ago, we had the CNN journalist who I rather like and admire, Jake Tapper, on the show. Arguing in a piece of fiction that he thinks, to make sense of America, we need to return to the 1970s. He had a thriller out a couple of years ago called All the Demons Are Here. But I wonder if Tapper's changed his mind on this. His latest book, which is a sensation, which he co-wrote with Alex Thompson, is Original Sin, President Biden's Decline, its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. Tapper, I think, tells the truth about Biden, as the New York Times notes. It's a damning portrait of an enfeebled Biden protected by his inner circle. I would extend that, rather than his inner circle protected by an elite, perhaps a coastal elite of Democrats, unable or unwilling to come to terms with the fact that Biden was way, way past his shelf life. My guest today, William Deresiewicz—always get his last name wrong—it must be...William Deresiewicz: No, that was good. You got it.Andrew Keen: Probably because I'm anti-semitic. He has a new piece out called "Post-Election" which addresses much of the rottenness of the American progressive establishment in 2025. Bill, congratulations on the piece.William Deresiewicz: Thank you.Andrew Keen: Have you had a chance to look at this Tapper book or have you read about Original Sin?William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I read that piece. I read the piece that's on the screen and I've heard some people talking about it. And I mean, as you said, it's not just his inner circle. I don't want to blame Tapper. Tapper did the work. But one immediate reaction to the debate debacle was, where have the journalists been? For example, just to unfairly call one person out, but they're just so full of themselves, the New Yorker dripping with self-congratulations, especially in its centennial year, its boundless appetite for self-celebration—to quote something one of my students once said about Yale—they've got a guy named Evan Osnos, who's one of their regulars on their political...Andrew Keen: Yeah, and he's been on the show, Evan, and in fact, I rather like his, I was going to say his husband, his father, Peter Osnos, who's a very heavy-hitting ex-publisher. But anyway, go on. And Evan's quite a nice guy, personally.William Deresiewicz: I'm sure he's a nice guy, but the fact is he's not only a New Yorker journalist, but he wrote a book about Biden, which means that he's presumably theoretically well-sourced within Biden world. He didn't say anything. I mean, did he not know or did he know?Andrew Keen: Yeah, I agree. I mean you just don't want to ask, right? You don't know. But you're a journalist, so you're supposed to know. You're supposed to ask. So I'm sure you're right on Osnos. I mean, he was on the show, but all journalists are progressives, or at least all the journalists at the Times and the New Yorker and the Atlantic. And there seemed to be, as Jake Tapper is suggesting in this new book, and he was part of the cover-up, there seemed to be a cover-up on the part of the entire professional American journalist establishment, high-end establishment, to ignore the fact that the guy running for president or the president himself clearly had no idea of what was going on around him. It's just astonishing, isn't it? I mean, hindsight's always easy, of course, 2020 in retrospect, but it was obvious at the time. I made it clear whenever I spoke about Biden, that here was a guy clearly way out of his depth, that he shouldn't have been president, maybe shouldn't have been president in the first place, but whatever you think about his ideas, he clearly was way beyond his shelf date, a year or two into the presidency.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, but here's the thing, and it's one of the things I say in the post-election piece, but I'm certainly not the only person to say this. There was an at least tacit cover-up of Biden, of his condition, but the whole thing was a cover-up, meaning every major issue that the 2024 election was about—crime, at the border, woke excess, affordability. The whole strategy of not just the Democrats, but this media establishment that's aligned with them is to just pretend that it wasn't happening, to explain it away. And we can also throw in pandemic policy, right? Which people were still thinking about and all the missteps in pandemic policy. The strategy was effectively a cover-up. We're not gonna talk about it, or we're gonna gaslight you, or we're gonna make excuses. So is it a surprise that people don't trust these establishment institutions anymore? I mean, I don't trust them anymore and I want to trust them.Andrew Keen: Were there journalists? I mean, there were a handful of journalists telling the truth about Biden. Progressives, people on the left rather than conservatives.William Deresiewicz: Ezra Klein started to talk about it, I remember that. So yes, there were a handful, but it wasn't enough. And you know, I don't say this to take away from Ezra Klein what I just gave him with my right hand, take away with my left, but he was also the guy, as soon as the Kamala succession was effected, who was talking about how Kamala in recent months has been going from strength to strength and hasn't put a foot wrong and isn't she fantastic. So all credit to him for telling the truth about Biden, but it seems to me that he immediately pivoted to—I mean, I'm sure he thought he was telling the truth about Harris, but I didn't believe that for one second.Andrew Keen: Well, meanwhile, the lies about Harris or the mythology of Harris, the false—I mean, all mythology, I guess, is false—about Harris building again. Headline in Newsweek that Harris would beat Donald Trump if an election was held again. I mean I would probably beat—I would beat Trump if an election was held again, I can't even run for president. So anyone could beat Trump, given the situation. David Plouffe suggested that—I think he's quoted in the Tapper book—that Biden totally fucked us, but it suggests that somehow Harris was a coherent progressive candidate, which she wasn't.William Deresiewicz: She wasn't. First of all, I hadn't seen this poll that she would beat Trump. I mean, it's a meaningless poll, because...Andrew Keen: You could beat him, Bill, and no one can even pronounce your last name.William Deresiewicz: Nobody could say what would actually happen if there were a real election. It's easy enough to have a hypothetical poll. People often look much better in these kinds of hypothetical polls where there's no actual election than they do when it's time for an election. I mean, I think everyone except maybe David Plouffe understands that Harris should never have been a candidate—not just after Biden dropped out way too late, but ever, right? I mean the real problem with Biden running again is that he essentially saddled us with Harris. Instead of having a real primary campaign where we could have at least entertained the possibility of some competent people—you know, there are lots of governors. I mean, I'm a little, and maybe we'll get to this, I'm little skeptical that any normal democratic politician is going to end up looking good. But at least we do have a whole bunch of what seem to be competent governors, people with executive experience. And we never had a chance to entertain any of those people because this democratic establishment just keeps telling us who we're going to vote for. I mean, it's now three elections in a row—they forced Hillary on us, and then Biden. I'm not going to say they forced Biden on us although elements of it did. It probably was a good thing because he won and he may have been the only one who could have won. And then Harris—it's like reductio ad absurdum. These candidates they keep handing us keep getting worse and worse.Andrew Keen: But it's more than being worse. I mean, whatever one can say about Harris, she couldn't explain why she wanted to be president, which seems to me a disqualifier if you're running for president. The point, the broader point, which I think you bring out very well in the piece you write, and you and I are very much on the same page here, so I'm not going to criticize you in your post-election—William Deresiewicz: You can criticize me, Andrew, I love—Andrew Keen: I know I can criticize you, and I will, but not in this particular area—is that these people are the establishment. They're protecting a globalized world, they're the coast. I mean, in some ways, certainly the Bannonite analysis is right, and it's not surprising that they're borrowing from Lenin and the left is borrowing from Edmund Burke.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I mean I think, and I think this is the real problem. I mean, part of what I say in the piece is that it just seems, maybe this is too organicist, but there just seems to be an exhaustion that the liberal impulse that started, you know, around the time I was born in 1964, and I cite the Dylan movie just because it's a picture of that time where you get a sense of the energy on the left, the dawning of all this exciting—Andrew Keen: You know that movie—and we've done a show on that movie—itself was critical I guess in a way of Dylan for not being political.William Deresiewicz: Well, but even leaving that aside, just the reminder you get of what that time felt like. That seems in the movie relatively accurate, that this new youth culture, the rights revolution, the counterculture, a new kind of impulse of liberalism and progressivism that was very powerful and strong and carried us through the 60s and 70s and then became the establishment and has just become completely exhausted now. So I just feel like it's just gotten to the end of its possibility. Gotten to the end of its life cycle, but also in a less sort of mystical way. And I think this is a structural problem that the Democrats have not been able to address for a long time, and I don't see how they're going to address it. The party is now the party, as you just said, of the establishment, uneasily wedded to a mainly non-white sort of working class, lower class, maybe somewhat middle class. So it's sort of this kind of hybrid beast, the two halves of which don't really fit together. The educated upper middle class, the professional managerial class that you and I are part of, and then sort of the average Black Latino female, white female voter who doesn't share the interests of that class. So what are you gonna do about that? How's that gonna work?Andrew Keen: And the thing that you've always given a lot of thought to, and it certainly comes out in this piece, is the intolerance of the Democratic Party. But it's an intolerance—it's not a sort of, and I don't like this word, it's not the fascist intolerance of the MAGA movement or of Trump. It's a repressive intolerance, it's this idea that we're always right and if you disagree with us, then there must be something wrong with you.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, right. It's this, at this point, completely unearned sense of moral superiority and intellectual superiority, which are not really very clearly distinguished in their mind, I think. And you know, they just reek of it and people hate it and it's understandable that they hate it. I mean, it's Hillary in a word. It's Hillary in a word and again, I'm wary of treading on this kind of ground, but I do think there's an element of—I mean, obviously Trump and his whole camp is very masculinist in a very repulsive way, but there is also a way to be maternalist in a repulsive way. It's this kind of maternal control. I think of it as the sushi mom voice where we're gonna explain to you in a calm way why you should listen to us and why we're going to control every move you make. And it's this fear—I mean what my piece is really about is this sort of quasi-Nietzschean argument for energy and vitality that's lacking on the left. And I think it's lacking because the left fears it. It fears sort of the chaos of the life force. So it just wants to shackle it in all of these rules and bureaucracy and speech codes and consent codes. It just feels lifeless. And I think everybody feels that.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and it's the inability to imagine you can be wrong. It's the moral greediness of some people, at least, who think of themselves on the left. Some people might be listening to this, thinking it's just these two old white guys who think themselves as progressives but are actually really conservative. And all this idea of nature is itself chilling, that it's a kind of anti-feminism.William Deresiewicz: Well, that's b******t. I mean, let me have a chance to respond. I mean I plead guilty to being an old white man—Andrew Keen: I mean you can't argue with that one.William Deresiewicz: I'm not arguing with it. But the whole point rests on this notion of positionality, like I'm an older white man, therefore I think this or I believe that, which I think is b******t to begin with because, you know, down the street there's another older white guy who believes the exact opposite of me, so what's the argument here? But leaving that aside, and whether I am or am not a progressive—okay, my ideal politician is Bernie Sanders, so I'll just leave it at that. The point is, I mean, one point is that feminism hasn't always been like this. Second wave feminism that started in the late sixties, when I was a little kid—there was a censorious aspect to it, but there was also this tremendous vitality. I mean I think of somebody like Andrea Dworkin—this is like, "f**k you" feminism. This is like, "I'm not only not gonna shave my legs, I'm gonna shave my armpits and I don't give a s**t what you think." And then the next generation when I was a young man was the Mary Gates, Camille Paglia, sex-positive power feminism which also had a different kind of vitality. So I don't think feminism has to be the feminism of the women's studies departments and of Hillary Clinton with "you can't say this" and "if you want to have sex with me you have to follow these 10 rules." I don't think anybody likes that.Andrew Keen: The deplorables!William Deresiewicz: Yes, yes, yes. Like I said, I don't just think that the enemies don't like it, and I don't really care what they think. I think the people on our side don't like it. Nobody is having fun on our side. It's boring. No one's having sex from what they tell me. The young—it just feels dead. And I think when there's no vitality, you also have no creative vitality. And I think the intellectual cul-de-sac that the left seems to be stuck in, where there are no new ideas, is related to that.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and I think the more I think about it, I think you're right, it's a generational war. All the action seems to be coming from old people, whether it's the Pelosis and the Bidens, or it's people like Richard Reeves making a fortune off books about worrying about young men or Jonathan Haidt writing about the anxious generation. Where are, to quote David Bowie, the young Americans? Why aren't they—I mean, Bill, you're in a way guilty of this. You made your name with your book, Excellent Sheep about the miseducation...William Deresiewicz: Yeah, so what am I guilty of exactly?Andrew Keen: I'm not saying you're all, but aren't you and Reeves and Haidt, you're all involved in this weird kind of generational war.William Deresiewicz: OK, let's pump the brakes here for a second. Where the young people are—I mean, obviously most people, even young people today, still vote for Democrats. But the young who seem to be exploring new things and having energy and excitement are on the right. And there was a piece—I'm gonna forget the name of the piece and the author—Daniel Oppenheimer had her on the podcast. I think it appeared in The Point. Young woman. Fairly recent college graduate, went to a convention of young republicans, I don't know what they call themselves, and also to democrats or liberals in quick succession and wrote a really good piece about it. I don't think she had ever written anything before or published anything before, but it got a lot of attention because she talked about the youthful vitality at this conservative gathering. And then she goes to the liberals and they're all gray-haired men like us. The one person who had anything interesting to say was Francis Fukuyama, who's in his 80s. She's making the point—this is the point—it's not a generational war, because there are young people on the right side of the spectrum who are doing interesting things. I mean, I don't like what they're doing, because I'm not a rightist, but they're interesting, they're different, they're new, there's excitement there, there's creativity there.Andrew Keen: But could one argue, Bill, that all these labels are meaningless and that whatever they're doing—I'm sure they're having more sex than young progressives, they're having more fun, they're able to make jokes, they are able, for better or worse, to change the system. Does it really matter whether they claim to be MAGA people or leftists? They're the ones who are driving change in the country.William Deresiewicz: Yes, they're the ones who are driving change in the country. The counter-cultural energy that was on the left in the sixties and seventies is now on the right. And it does matter because they are operating in the political sphere, have an effect in the political sphere, and they're unmistakably on the right. I mean, there are all these new weird species on the right—the trads and the neo-pagans and the alt-right and very sort of anti-capitalist conservatives or at least anti-corporate conservatives and all kinds of things that you would never have imagined five years ago. And again, it's not that I like these things. It's that they're new, there's ferment there. So stuff is coming out that is going to drive, is already driving the culture and therefore the politics forward. And as somebody who, yes, is progressive, it is endlessly frustrating to me that we have lost this kind of initiative, momentum, energy, creativity, to what used to be the stodgy old right. Now we're the stodgy old left.Andrew Keen: What do you want to go back to? I mean you brought up Dylan earlier. Do you just want to resurrect...William Deresiewicz: No, I don't.Andrew Keen: You know another one who comes to mind is another sort of bundle of contradictions, Bruce Springsteen. He recently talked about the corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous nature of Trump. I mean Springsteen's a billionaire. He even acknowledged that he mythologized his own working-class status. He's never spent more than an hour in a factory. He's never had a job. So aren't all the pigeons coming back to roost here? The fraud of men like Springsteen are merely being exposed and young people recognize it.William Deresiewicz: Well, I don't know about Springsteen in particular...Andrew Keen: Well, he's a big deal.William Deresiewicz: No, I know he's a big deal, and I love Springsteen. I listened to him on repeat when I was young, and I actually didn't know that he'd never worked in a factory, and I quite frankly don't care because he's an artist, and he made great art out of those experiences, whether they were his or not. But to address the real issue here, he is an old guy. It sounds like he's just—I mean, I'm sure he's sincere about it and I would agree with him about Trump. But to have people like Springsteen or Robert De Niro or George Clooney...Andrew Keen: Here it is.William Deresiewicz: Okay, yes, it's all to the point that these are old guys. So you asked me, do I want to go back? The whole point is I don't want to go back. I want to go forward. I'm not going to be the one to bring us forward because I'm older. And also, I don't think I was ever that kind of creative spirit, but I want to know why there isn't sort of youthful creativity given the fact that most young people do still vote for Democrats, but there's no youthful creativity on the left. Is it just that the—I want to be surprised is the point. I'm not calling for X, Y, or Z. I'm saying astonish me, right? Like Diaghilev said to Cocteau. Astonish me the way you did in the 60s and 70s. Show me something new. And I worry that it simply isn't possible on the left now, precisely because it's so locked down in this kind of establishment, censorious mode that there's no room for a new idea to come from anywhere.Andrew Keen: As it happens, you published this essay in Salmagundi—and that predates, if not even be pre-counterculture. How many years old is it? I think it started in '64. Yeah, so alongside your piece is an interesting piece from Adam Phillips about influence and anxiety. And he quotes Montaigne from "On Experience": "There is always room for a successor, even for ourselves, and a different way to proceed." Is the problem, Bill, that we haven't, we're not willing to leave the stage? I mean, Nancy Pelosi is a good example of this. Biden's a good example. In this Salmagundi piece, there's an essay from Martin Jay, who's 81 years old. I was a grad student in Berkeley in the 80s. Even at that point, he seemed old. Why are these people not able to leave the stage?William Deresiewicz: I am not going to necessarily sign on to that argument, and not just because I'm getting older. Biden...Andrew Keen: How old are you, by the way?William Deresiewicz: I'm 61. So you mentioned Pelosi. I would have been happy for Pelosi to remain in her position for as long as she wanted, because she was effective. It's not about how old you are. Although it can be, obviously as you get older you can become less effective like Joe Biden. I think there's room for the old and the young together if the old are saying valuable things and if the young are saying valuable things. It's not like there's a shortage of young voices on the left now. They're just not interesting voices. I mean, the one that comes immediately to mind that I'm more interested in is Ritchie Torres, who's this congressman who's a genuinely working-class Black congressman from the Bronx, unlike AOC, who grew up the daughter of an architect in Northern Westchester and went to a fancy private university, Boston University. So Ritchie Torres is not a doctrinaire leftist Democrat. And he seems to speak from a real self. Like he isn't just talking about boilerplate. I just feel like there isn't a lot of room for the Ritchie Torres. I think the system that produces democratic candidates militates against people like Ritchie Torres. And that's what I am talking about.Andrew Keen: In the essay, you write about Andy Mills, who was one of the pioneers of the New York Times podcast. He got thrown out of The New York Times for various offenses. It's one of the problems with the left—they've, rather like the Stalinists in the 1930s, purged all the energy out of themselves. Anyone of any originality has been thrown out for one reason or another.William Deresiewicz: Well, because it's always the same reason, because they violate the code. I mean, yes, this is one of the main problems. And to go back to where we started with the journalists, it seems like the rationale for the cover-up, all the cover-ups was, "we can't say anything bad about our side. We can't point out any of the flaws because that's going to help the bad guys." So if anybody breaks ranks, we're going to cancel them. We're going to purge them. I mean, any idiot understands that that's a very short-term strategy. You need the possibility of self-criticism and self-difference. I mean that's the thing—you asked me about old people leaving the stage, but the quotation from Montaigne said, "there's always room for a successor, even ourselves." So this is about the possibility of continuous self-reinvention. Whatever you want to say about Dylan, some people like him, some don't, he's done that. Bowie's done that. This was sort of our idea, like you're constantly reinventing yourself, but this is what we don't have.Andrew Keen: Yeah, actually, I read the quote the wrong way, that we need to reinvent ourselves. Bowie is a very good example if one acknowledges, and Dylan of course, one's own fundamental plasticity. And that's another problem with the progressive movement—they don't think of the human condition as a plastic one.William Deresiewicz: That's interesting. I mean, in one respect, I think they think of it as too plastic, right? This is sort of the blank slate fallacy that we can make—there's no such thing as human nature and we can reshape it as we wish. But at the same time, they've created a situation, and this really is what Excellent Sheep is about, where they're turning out the same human product over and over.Andrew Keen: But in that sense, then, the excellent sheep you write about at Yale, they've all ended up now as neo-liberal, neo-conservative, so they're just rebelling...William Deresiewicz: No, they haven't. No, they are the backbone of this soggy liberal progressive establishment. A lot of them are. I mean, why is, you know, even Wall Street and Silicon Valley sort of by preference liberal? It's because they're full of these kinds of elite college graduates who have been trained to be liberal.Andrew Keen: So what are we to make of the Musk-Thiel, particularly the Musk phenomenon? I mean, certainly Thiel, very much influenced by Rand, who herself, of course, was about as deeply Nietzschean as you can get. Why isn't Thiel and Musk just a model of the virility, the vitality of the early 21st century? You might not like what they say, but they're full of vitality.William Deresiewicz: It's interesting, there's a place in my piece where I say that the liberal can't accept the idea that a bad person can do great things. And one of my examples was Elon Musk. And the other one—Andrew Keen: Zuckerberg.William Deresiewicz: But Musk is not in the piece, because I wrote the piece before the inauguration and they asked me to change it because of what Musk was doing. And even I was beginning to get a little queasy just because the association with Musk is now different. It's now DOGE. But Musk, who I've always hated, I've never liked the guy, even when liberals loved him for making electric cars. He is an example, at least the pre-DOGE Musk, of a horrible human being with incredible vitality who's done great things, whether you like it or not. And I want—I mean, this is the energy that I want to harness for our team.Andrew Keen: I actually mostly agreed with your piece, but I didn't agree with that because I think most progressives believe that actually, the Zuckerbergs and the Musks, by doing, by being so successful, by becoming multi-billionaires, are morally a bit dodgy. I mean, I don't know where you get that.William Deresiewicz: That's exactly the point. But I think what they do is when they don't like somebody, they just negate the idea that they're great. "Well, he's just not really doing anything that great." You disagree.Andrew Keen: So what about ideas, Bill? Where is there room to rebuild the left? I take your points, and I don't think many people would actually disagree with you. Where does the left, if there's such a term anymore, need to go out on a limb, break some eggs, offend some people, but nonetheless rebuild itself? It's not going back to Bernie Sanders and some sort of nostalgic New Deal.William Deresiewicz: No, no, I agree. So this is, this may be unsatisfying, but this is what I'm saying. If there were specific new ideas that I thought the left should embrace, I would have said so. What I'm seeing is the left needs, to begin with, to create the conditions from which new ideas can come. So I mean, we've been talking about a lot of it. The censoriousness needs to go.I would also say—actually, I talk about this also—you know, maybe you would consider yourself part of, I don't know. There's this whole sort of heterodox realm of people who did dare to violate the progressive pieties and say, "maybe the pandemic response isn't going so well; maybe the Black Lives Matter protests did have a lot of violence"—maybe all the things, right? And they were all driven out from 2020 and so forth. A lot of them were people who started on the left and would even still describe themselves as liberal, would never vote for a Republican. So these people are out there. They're just, they don't have a voice within the Democratic camp because the orthodoxy continues to be enforced.So that's what I'm saying. You've got to start with the structural conditions. And one of them may be that we need to get—I don't even know that these institutions can reform themselves, whether it's the Times or the New Yorker or the Ivy League. And it may be that we need to build new institutions, which is also something that's happening. I mean, it's something that's happening in the realm of publishing and journalism on Substack. But again, they're still marginalized because that liberal establishment does not—it's not that old people don't wanna give up power, it's that the established people don't want to give up the power. I mean Harris is, you know, she's like my age. So the establishment as embodied by the Times, the New Yorker, the Ivy League, foundations, the think tanks, the Democratic Party establishment—they don't want to move aside. But it's so obviously clear at this point that they are not the solution. They're not the solutions.Andrew Keen: What about the so-called resistance? I mean, a lot of people were deeply disappointed by the response of law firms, maybe even universities, the democratic party as we noted is pretty much irrelevant. Is it possible for the left to rebuild itself by a kind of self-sacrifice, by lawyers who say "I don't care what you think of me, I'm simply against you" and to work together, or university presidents who will take massive pay cuts and take on MAGA/Trump world?William Deresiewicz: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if this is going to be the solution to the left rebuilding itself, but I think it has to happen, not just because it has to happen for policy reasons, but I mean you need to start by finding your courage again. I'm not going to say your testicles because that's gendered, but you need to start—I mean the law firms, maybe that's a little, people have said, well, it's different because they're in a competitive business with each other, but why did the university—I mean I'm a Columbia alumnus. I could not believe that Columbia immediately caved.It occurs to me as we're talking that these are people, university presidents who have learned cowardice. This is how they got to be where they got and how they keep their jobs. They've learned to yield in the face of the demands of students, the demands of alumni, the demands of donors, maybe the demands of faculty. They don't know how to be courageous anymore. And as much as I have lots of reasons, including personal ones, to hate Harvard University, good for them. Somebody finally stood up, and I was really glad to see that. So yeah, I think this would be one good way to start.Andrew Keen: Courage, in other words, is the beginning.William Deresiewicz: Courage is the beginning.Andrew Keen: But not a courage that takes itself too seriously.William Deresiewicz: I mean, you know, sure. I mean I don't really care how seriously—not the self-referential courage. Real courage, which means you're really risking losing something. That's what it means.Andrew Keen: And how can you and I then manifest this courage?William Deresiewicz: You know, you made me listen to Jocelyn Benson.Andrew Keen: Oh, yeah, I forgot and I actually I have to admit I saw that on the email and then I forgot who Jocelyn Benson is, which is probably reflects the fact that she didn't say very much.William Deresiewicz: For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, she's the Secretary of State of Michigan. She's running for governor.Andrew Keen: Oh yeah, and she was absolutely diabolical. She was on the show, I thought.William Deresiewicz: She wrote a book called Purposeful Warrior, and the whole interview was just this salad of cliches. Purpose, warrior, grit, authenticity. And part of, I mentioned her partly because she talked about courage in a way that was complete nonsense.Andrew Keen: Real courage, yeah, real courage. I remember her now. Yeah, yeah.William Deresiewicz: Yeah, she got made into a martyr because she got threatened after the 2020 election.Andrew Keen: Well, lots to think about, Bill. Very good conversation, as always. I think we need to get rid of old white men like you and I, but what do I know?William Deresiewicz: I mean, I am going to keep a death grip on my position, which is no good whatsoever.Andrew Keen: As I half-joked, Bill, maybe you should have called the piece "Post-Erection." If you can't get an erection, then you certainly shouldn't be in public office. That would have meant that Joe Biden would have had to have retired immediately.William Deresiewicz: I'm looking forward to seeing the test you devise to determine whether people meet your criterion.Andrew Keen: Yeah, maybe it will be a public one. Bread and circuses, bread and elections. We shall see, Bill, I'm not even going to do your last name because I got it right once. I'm never going to say it again. Bill, congratulations on the piece "Post-Election," not "Post-Erection," and we will talk again. This story is going to run and run. We will talk again in the not too distant future. Thank you so much.William Deresiewicz: That's good.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Video version:https://youtu.be/P7lN2g4KeloLisa Fevral:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdvK5wMriowQqbGC7G0lDAhttps://twitter.com/LisaFevralhttps://www.instagram.com/lisafevral/

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comClaire Lehmann is a journalist and publisher. In 2015, after leaving academia, she founded the online magazine Quillette, where she is still editor-in-chief. She's also a newspaper columnist for The Australian.For two clips of our convo — on how journalists shouldn't be too friendly with one another, and how postmodernism takes the joy out of literature — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: a modest upbringing in Adelaide; her hippie parents; their small-c conservatism; her many working-class jobs; ADHD; aspiring to be a Shakespeare scholar; enjoying Foucault … at first; her “great disillusionment” with pomo theory; the impenetrable prose of Butler; the great Germaine Greer; praising Camille Paglia; evolutionary psychology; Wright's The Moral Animal and Pinker's The Blank Slate; Claire switching to forensic psychology after an abusive relationship; the TV show Adolescence; getting hired by the Sydney Morning Herald to write op-eds — her first on marriage equality; Bush's federal amendment; competition among women; tribalism and mass migration; soaring housing costs in Australia; rising populism in the West; creating Quillette; the IDW; being anti-anti-Trump; audience capture; Islamism and Charlie Hebdo; Covid; critical Trump theory; tariffs; reflexive anti-elitism; Joe Rogan; Almost Famous; Orwell; Spinoza; Oakeshott; Fukuyama and boredom; tech billionaires on Inauguration Day; the sycophants of Trump 2.0; and X as a state propaganda platform.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Next week: David Graham on Project 2025. After that: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on the Biden years, Sam Tanenhaus on Bill Buckley, Robert Merry on President McKinley, Walter Isaacson on Ben Franklin, and Paul Elie on his book The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

In this inspiring and deep-dive episode of The Neil Haley Show, Neil and Greg Hanna sit down with acclaimed author Michael Walsh, who joins the show to discuss his 20th book, Rage to Conquer. A celebrated writer, journalist, classical music critic, and screenwriter, Walsh brings decades of global experience and a razor-sharp mind to the mic.Together, they explore the military themes in his work, including the influence of his father—a U.S. Marine and Korean War hero who survived the legendary Chosin Reservoir battle. Walsh opens up about his disciplined writing process, his unique career trajectory from Time Magazine to Hollywood, and why he's dedicated to preserving stories of masculinity, legacy, and courage.[00:00:00] Introduction to Michael Walsh and the release of his 20th book, Rage to Conquer[00:00:45] Growing up in the Marine Corps and how his father's wartime survival inspired his work[00:01:30] Transition from Last Stands to Rage to Conquer and how both books connect[00:02:30] The Chosin Reservoir, survivor stories, and why military history matters[00:03:30] On researching historical battles and the power (and limits) of AI in nonfiction writing[00:04:15] Learning to write through reading—and why technique is key for every serious writer[00:05:00] Walsh's background as a concert pianist and foreign correspondent during the Cold War[00:06:00] The Hollywood journey: what really happens behind the scenes of spec scripts and casting[00:07:30] Why Netflix is both a blessing and a curse for screenwriters[00:08:30] The demise of “spec script culture” and how writers are undervalued in modern Hollywood[00:10:00] Reflections on Cadet Kelly, Disney's evolving culture, and the new creative climate[00:12:00] Why rage, resilience, and leadership are central themes for young men in his books[00:14:00] Walsh's admiration for author James Ellroy and what separates great writers from the rest[00:15:30] The value of rejection and why perseverance is the writer's greatest asset[00:16:30] What it means to “just go to work”—how his father's survival mindset shaped his own[00:17:30] A critique of woke culture, the suppression of masculinity, and the historical importance of men at war[00:19:00] The influence of Camille Paglia and the need for unapologetic male role models today[00:21:00] Final reflection: “Don't give up”—how Walsh has faced death, illness, and rejection without ever quitting

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMike White is a writer, director, and actor. Among his many films, he wrote and starred in Chuck & Buck and wrote the screenplay for School of Rock. In television, he co-created and starred in Enlightened, and he's the brilliant auteur of The White Lotus, currently in its third season. In reality TV, he competed on Survivor: David vs. Goliath and two seasons of The Amazing Race, alongside his gay evangelical father, Mel White, whom I knew well before I came to admire his son's work.For three clips of our convo — on the humanism of The White Lotus, Mike finding Buddhism, and his courageous gay dad — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: growing up in the boring suburbs of Pasadena; attending a private school of rich kids; his mom a teacher and homemaker; Mel the minister and ghostwriter for famous televangelists; the productive pain of adolescence; Mike studying postmodernists like Judith Butler at Wesleyan; Mel coming out of the closet right after his kids left college; Soul Force; Mike's power of observation; his love of Camille Paglia; Sexual Personae; the subtle psychological warfare in White Lotus; how its characters aren't didactic; how identity politics is bad for art; the golden age of reality TV; Mel joining Falwell's church with his partner; the pressure to be the model gay; the gay characters of South Park; Mike's nervous breakdown; the humor and lightness in Buddhism; meditation; Oakeshott and the ordeal of consciousness; Orwell and the clarity of nonfiction; Jennifer Coolidge and the evil gays; Parker Posey; Sam Rockwell's autogynephilic role; bro-cest; the mysteries of desire; Freud; how iPhones kill imagination; Mike's veganism; how class gets eclipsed in wokeness; and the redeemable qualities in all the White Lotus characters.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Nick Denton on China's inevitable world domination, Evan Wolfson on the history of marriage equality, Francis Collins on faith and science, and Douglas Murray on Israel and Gaza. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Hlustaðu í fullri lengd inni á www.patreon.com/skodanabraedur Hvernig menntum við okkur? Hvað er í gangi í háskólunum? Hugmyndir fræðikonunnar Camille Paglia ræddar hér í þessum þætti. Hún er róttæk og skemmtileg. Er munur á körlum og konum? Það fer eftir því hvern þú spyrð. Um lok þáttar er snert á hugvíkkandi efnum, hverjir eiga að nota þau og hverjir alls ekki. Guð blessi ykkur kæra bræðralag.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Elon Musk's vicious comeback to Gavin Newsom for making it illegal to post an AI-generated parody Kamala Harris campaign ad; “The View's” Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar appear to blame Donald Trump's rhetoric for the second assassination attempt while being oblivious to their own; White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for pointing out the dangerous rhetoric that Joe Biden continues to use about Donald Trump despite a second attempt on his life; Byron Donalds calling out CNN's Kate Bolduan for refusing to admit that Kamala Harris continued to push disproven hoaxes about Trump's “bloodbath” and “very fine people” comments; Benny Johnson trying to find out Kamala Harris supporters' favorite policies; Camille Paglia shocking Charlie Rose with her brutal takedown of multiculturalism; Florida putting an 11-year-old boy through a perp walk for his threats to commit a mass shooting; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Gravity Defyer - Sick of knee pain? Get Gravity Defyer shoes. Minimize the shock waves that normal shoes absorb through your feet, knees and hips with every step. Use the promo code "RUBIN30" at checkout, to get an extra $30 off orders over $130 or more. Go to: http://gdefy.com and Use the promo code "RUBIN30" Home Title Lock - Ensure that your home title is safe from thieves. Sign up today and you'll get your first 30 days of triple lock protection for FREE – AND a complete title scan of your home's title. Go to: https://www.hometitlelock.com and USE promo code DAVE Lumen.Me - Lumen is the world's first handheld metabolic coach that measures your metabolism through your breath. It lets you know if you're burning fat or carbs, and gives you tailored guidance to improve your nutrition, workouts, and sleep. Go to: https://lumen.me/rubin to get 15% OFF! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Nancy and Sarah riff on a fascinating essay in UnHerd by David Samuels, “The March of Kamala's Brides: Miserable young women are the Democrats' foot-soldiers.” The story lays out damning statistics on happiness and liberal women. They're childless, unmarried, on anti-depressants: Hey, Sarah ticks all the boxes!Nancy and Sarah try to diagnose how we got here. Their discussion covers vibrators and dating apps, Obamacare and social security, politics and the patriarchy, social justice and social media, pets vs. children, and the ocean of meaning that lies underneath the phrase, "I'm fine." Also discussed:* Nancy's new book Forty Bucks and a Dream now on presale!* Fifth Column live event tonight, WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.* When will Wikipedia acknowledge that Nancy dated Eddie Vedder?* Kneejerk Nancy asks, “Do I need to know everyone's effing feelings?”* Sarah asks, “If my cat is not a baby, why is he baby-shaped?”* The “compare and despair” trap of social media* Feminism and happiness: It's complicated!* Men on women's tears: It's annoying!* The whole SSRI thing* Fault vs. responsibility* WE MISS THE ‘90s* Camille Paglia, aka Sarah's fake Italian grandmother, brings us homeAlso: A (short) debate on Miranda July, how Andy Warhol turns out to be fascinating, Nancy drops a bomb about women's happiness and birth control — and MORE! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smokeempodcast.substack.com/subscribe

Author, filmmaker and legendary drag performer Glenn Belverio joins the ladies to talk about the Trump assassination attempt, the fate of LGBT and drag, collabing with Camille Paglia, and the recent Glennda Orgasm renaissance.

*Announcements!  The first STARGIRL in-person event is happening! Details will be announced on my Instagram first @emmaglennbaker — can't wait to share more and see you there!* In this week's episode, I introduce a brand new segment to the public: STARGIRL Rants and Raves! I welcome all listeners to send in a Rant or Rave on a Stargirl, person/persona you fixate on, or cultural event/moment that you love or hate. This first round was open to Patrons only, and we listen to my favorite three submissions here today! Here's how it works: Record a 0:30 - 2:00 minute-long voice note Email the audio file to me at stargirldirect@gmail.com Subject line should read “Rant / Rave” on [your subject]” In the email, please not e how you'd like to be attributed (full name, first name only, IG handle, etc.) Show notes: This week we tackle a classic Stargirl: Dame Elizabeth Taylor. I talk about the many elements of her myth that I somehow inherited—her violet eyes, “married eight times to seven men,” her health issues, etc. I decide that although Liz Taylor is indeed beautiful, prolific, and messy, her real singularity lies in her Sturdiness: She is womanly, down-to-earth, and robust. We also discuss Camille Paglia's incredible fixation on Liz, and leaf through Liz's memoir/self-help/recipe book about her own weight gain and loss, Elizabeth Takes Off. Plus, I finally acknowledge the Chappell Roan phenomenon, praise Addison for her underwater Dhanurasana, and challenge myself to discuss the election head-on, rather than roll my eyes and look away. We got this y'all! Discussed: “Sabrina, Chappell, and Charli are suddenly stars. Why now?” Mikael Wood in the LA times  Azaelia Banks on Chappell Roan Addison's underwater amazingness “Love of Country and Aloha Spirit with Tulsi Gabbard,” Jocko Podcast Excerpt from “Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's Pagan Queen,” Camille Paglia, originally published in Penthouse magazine (1992) Interview with Paglia on Liz Taylor, Salon (2011) Elizabeth Takes Off: On Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Self-Image, and Self-Esteem, Elizabeth Taylor (1987)

Camille Paglia Tried To Warn Us About Woke UniversitiesYouTube Channel Rumble ChannelBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/radio-baloney-the-richie-baloney-show--4036781/support.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Douglas Murray's fiery debate performance at the Munk Debates debate on anti-zionism where he and co-debater Natasha Hausdorff destroyed Mehdi Hasan's falsehoods and veiled anti-semitism; Camille Paglia's prescient warning to Charlie Rose in 1995 about how higher education was already becoming an anti-western civilization indoctrination factory; Michael Richards, better known as “Seinfeld's” Kramer, doing his first ever live interview on “The Today Show” to explain how he has changed since his controversial racist remarks at the Laugh Factory in 2006; MSNBC's Joy Reid and Jemele Hill explaining why the attention that Caitlin Clark has brought to the WNBA is just more proof of the audience's racism and homophobia; “Firing Line's” Margaret Hoover looking a little confused as Democrat Cori Bush explains how she used spiritual healing to cure a homeless woman's tumors; “The View's” Joy Behar and Rachel Maddow openly discussing their paranoid delusions of how Donald Trump will target them for his revenge if he wins the 2024 election; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Base Spike Detox Trio - Fight the negative effects of the AstraZeneca vaccin with Dr. McCullough's protocol. Save 15% and get free shipping. Go to: https://TWC.health/RUBIN and use CODE: RUBIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uma conversa com Victória Carvalho sobre como é ser mulher não-feminista e não-religiosa. Tópicos abordados incluem o desprezo da biologia pelo feminismo, a ideia da equidade entre homens e mulheres, o conceito de patriarcado, diferenças cognitivas entre os sexos, entre outros. Link para o vídeo da Cristina Hoff Sommers e Camille Paglia mencionado no vídeo. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raciocinioaberto/message

Before they canceled him, Alfred Hitchcock made a movie about "the birds." Before they canceled her, Camille Paglia wrote an entire book about THE BIRDS. Here's why both are so prophetic of our henpecked times.    A gull session with Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist on two monumental figures in the Filthy Armenian landscape.    For the full 2.45 hour episode -- plus twice as many adventures overall, and regular exclusive "Smoke Break" mini eps on show, movies, and topics of the day -- subscribe to the show at patreon.com/filthyarmenian   Follow us on X/insta @filthyarmenian

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Joe Rogan's reaction to the crowd at UFC 297 erupting in a chant showcasing their anger at Justin Trudeau; MMA fighter Sean Strickland ripping a reporter to shreds who tried to depict him as a hateful bigot; UFC President Dana White shutting down a reporter who accused him of not controlling the speech of his UFC fighters enough; MSNBC's Joy Reid having her gotcha question for Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice turned against her; JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivering a fiery and unexpected defense of MAGA voters and Trump's policies; Camille Paglia warning Charlie Rose about educational institutions turning against western civilization in 1995; NYC's migrant crisis getting much worse as Tompkins Square Park becomes a giant toilet with migrants leaving cups of feces all over the public park; Democrat Max Frost suggesting that Republicans worried about the border crisis should vote to remove the Statue of Liberty; Novak Djokovic responding to a heckler demanding he get vaccinated at the Australian Open in the most perfect way possible; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: Truly Office - Secure your personal data and ditch mainstream office software providers like Microsoft and Google who misuse your data without your permission and switch to a safer alternative like Truly Office Software. Truly Office Software doesn't track or sell your data, giving you complete control over your personal information. Rubin Report viewers get a free trial of Truly Office Software for a limited time! Go to: https://trulyoffice.com/rumble Tax Network USA - If you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns, don't let the government take advantage of you. Whether you owe a few thousand or a few million, they can help you. Call 1-800-245-6000 or Go to: https://tnusa.com/dave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comNancy and Sarah get down (!) to the serious business of ethical non-monogamy, thanks to the cover story in this week's New York magazine. Is polyamory really a trend? Does opening your marriage ever work? Sarah finds this subject (professionally) fascinating; Nancy thinks it all ends in tears and grubbiness somewhere in Park Slope. Also discussed:* 2024: The Year of More Punching* Axl Rose was once an Indiana kid named William Bruce Rose* Nancy's squeaky little voice vs. Nancy's va-va-voom photos* Nancy's reasonable objections to sex writing* Sarah's reasonable arguments FOR sex writing* Stats, stats, we need stats* New lingo alert! “comet partner,” “metamour,” “one-penis policy”* Obviously Burning Man is involved* We design our perfect ethical polycules* Amazon employees are mad about moving to Austin?* Love for Israel during hard timesPlus, the many haircuts of Camille Paglia, our new Fight Club, and how a persimmon is like a penis.

Representatives want Lloyd Austin to testify about his hospitalization and lack of disclosure about his health problems. WWIII watch update. KNOW IT ALL: 1) Border problems. 2) Trump chimes in on presidential immunity during a Fox News town hall. 3) DOJ releases final report on Uvalde failures.  // Taylor Swift might make an appearance at this year's Super Bowl. // Bryan is going to try letting the grocery store pick his food items for him. Viral video shows cultural critic Camille Paglia in a video from 30 years ago talking about how terrible American universities were becoming. 

Samsara by Guerlain (1989) + Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia (1990) with Alec Mouhibian of Filthy Armenian Adventures and Jake 12/29/23 S6E5 To hear this episode and the complete continuing story of The Perfume Nationalist please subscribe on Patreon.

Sus maneras impertinentes y su indómita reticencia a cualquier tipo de norma, canon o consigna hacen Camille Paglia una de las voces más insolentes que acampa en tierra de nadie: ella misma se define como «desagradable, estridente y molesta».

Join us on censorship free Locals: TheRuthInstitute.Locals.com Professor Margaret McCarthy has been teaching at the John Paul II Institute since 1992. She received her doctoral degree in theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Lateran University in Rome.   Since then, her teaching and writing has focused on various themes belonging to theological anthropology relative to the question of sexual difference, but also relative to the larger nature-grace question.  She is the editor of the book Torn Asunder – Children, The Myth of the Good Divorce and the Recovery of Origins (Eerdmans, 2016), and author of Recovering Origins (Catholic Univ Press, 2022). She is the Editor of Humanum: Issues in Family, Culture, and Science, serves on the editorial board of the English edition of Communio: International Catholic Review, is a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology, and is a consultant to the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine. Alex Wolfe grew up in western Pennsylvania and studied Theology at DeSales University. Through the experience of seeing his parents get divorced while he was in college, Alex decided to study at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Washington, D.C. There, he completed the Master of Theological Studies degree and coursework for the Ph.D. Alex is now the Assistant Director of the Office of Marriage, Family, and Respect Life at the Diocese of Arlington, where he focuses on marriage preparation and healing for children of divorce. Beyond his duties in Arlington, he travels with Life-Giving Wounds to help other dioceses start up regional ministries for adult children of divorce. Alexander's e-address if you want to schedule a Life-Giving Wounds Retreat: alexander.wolfe@arlingtondiocese.org John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies: https://www.johnpaulii.edu/ Diocese of Arlington Office of Marriage, Family & Respect Life: https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/marriageandfamily/ Life-Giving Wounds: https://www.lifegivingwounds.org/ The U.S. grants far more annulments than anywhere else: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2011/04/28/annulment-nation/ Article, What Is An Annulment?: https://www.catholicherald.com/article/local/what-is-an-annulment/ Life-Giving Wounds retreat in September: www.arlingtondiocese.org/healingretreat Humanum Review: https://humanumreview.com/ Prof. McCarthy's articles on divorce: “The Baggage Adult Children of Divorce Carry.” The National Catholic Register. May 18, 2012: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/adult-children-of-divorce-carry-wounds-to-their-own-families/   Prof. McCarthy's articles on feminism: “Gender Equity or Suppression?” May 29, 2015: http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/gender-equity-or-suppression   “Still Unfinished?  A Review of Unfinished Business.”  Humanum 2017 Issue Two: http://humanumreview.com/articles/still-unfinished-further-questions-for-anne-marie-slaughter   “Camille Paglia's Sexual ‘Realism'.” Public Discourse. August 16, 2018: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/08/22226/   Prof. McCarthy's articles on “Gender”:  “Overruling the Visible: The Emperor's New Gender.”  Public Discourse. October 6, 2019: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/10/57542/   “The Abolition of Man and Woman,” The Wall Street Journal. June 24, 2020: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-abolition-of-man-and-woman-1159301750   “The Equality Act is at War with Reality.” The Wall Street Journal. March 20, 2021: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-equality-act-is-at-war-with-reality-11617143549?st=o8hdh2b7hylqjsc&reflink=article_email_share   “Say ‘No' to the New Binary.”  Public Discourse.  June 8, 2022: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/06/82723/   “A Friendly Critique of Helen Joyce's Trans: Why Radical Feminists have to go Further, Public Discourse.  September 8, 2022: https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/09/84478/   “The Slavery of Radical Freedom.”  First Things. August 21, 2020: https://www.firstthings.com.web-exclusives/2020/08/the-slavery-of-radical-freedom   Prof. McCarthy's articles on Abortion:   “Torn Apart by Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, The Catholic Thing.  July 9, 2022: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/author/margaret-harper-mccarthy/ Dr. Dan & Bethany Meola on The Dr J Show: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=FiLl41APX8o Bai MacFarlane on The Dr J Show: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=w6561d3aWew NOTE: The picture in this episode of Bishop Byrne is of Bp. Peter Byrne, not the Bp. William Byrne our guests are referring to. We regret this mistake! This episode of The Dr J Show may also be seen on the following platforms: TheRuthInstitute.Locals.com https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi2OoPf_APunkaLSv4jrKMB65x78U5MH https://www.bitchute.com/channel/MXkWgTk4Brwr/ https://rumble.com/c/TheRuthInstitute https://odysee.com/@TheRuthInstitute:7?view=content&order=new Sign up for our weekly newsletter here: https://ruthinstitute.org/newsletter +

Eric Doce aka @hamburger.helpless joins the pod to do a deep dive into Camille Paglia's magnum opus Sexual Personae, drawing out her Freudian themes. Subtopics include Eric's music (he's a harpist!), Mariah Carey, Spinoza, and commentary on the wildlife surrounding us on the Upper West Side. Eric will be performing at the cracks in pomo: the zine launch on 7/28 at the Catholic Worker Maryhouse. check out Eric's music page @hamburger.harpist and support his debut https://www.gofundme.com/f/nybased-alt-harpist-composer-complete-debut-lp?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram_story&utm_term=undefined To order a copy of the cracks in pomo zine or to make a contribution, DM @cracksinpomo. $upport CracksInPomo by clicking on this link. And follow CracksInPomo on Substack, Instagram, and Twitter. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stephen-adubato/support

In this video, Kendall and Starla Bridges share their personal experience of a broken marriage that began with broken lives. They discuss Camille Paglia's book "Sexual Personae" and the critical sign that she documents before the collapse of every society for the past 5,000 years, which is the acceptance of transgenderism. They highlight two critical indicators of the collapse of the nation, the current state of nuclear families and the lack of adequately-educated Americans. The Bridges emphasize the importance of reading, math, and science in remaining innovative and rebuilding our nation. To have a better marriage, they suggest knowing who you are with God, yourself, and everyone else, and improving yourself by going on new adventures, learning new information through real communication, and getting yourself healthy. Join Kendall and Starla Bridges in their quest to make Better Marriages, Better Families, Better Communities, Better Nation, and ultimately a Better World.

SPECIAL GUEST: DINESH D'SOUZA In this episode, I'm sounding the alarm on the influx of migrants expected to pour across the Texas-US border in the coming days as Title 42 expires. Plus, the NY Times believes it found the 'smoking gun' text message from Tucker Carlson that supposedly got him fired. The text shouldn't have surprised Tucker. Might the bigger issue for Fox News have been fear of regulation from Democrats? And, the Federal Reserve raised rates to the highest level in 16 years but, it's still not enough to fix inflation. Joining me today is conservative thought leader, Dinesh D'Souza. Dinesh, a filmmaker and media commentator, is the host of the Dinesh D'Souza podcast. In today's discussion, we look at why gender dysphoria has become the topic du jour for both sides of the aisle. According to Dinesh, it may mark a dangerous turning point for Western civilization. Today's show is sponsored in part by: https://LegacyPMInvestments.com https://Ruffgreens.com    Support the show: https://trishregan.store/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many of you I'm sure are familiar with the provocative scholar and social critic Camille Paglia. You may have seen her recently interviewed by Jordan Peterson on her criticisms of cultural Marxism. An older video of a talk she gave has recently resurfaced where she describes transgenderism in particular and androgyne in general as a sign of civilizational collapse. I want to show you just how prescient her comments were in light of what's happening today.   Highlights:  ●      “Camille Paglia, who is herself a very outspoken lesbian and more of a classical liberal, recognized that this current trans mania, as it were, is first and foremost, potential child abuse, what she called a crime against humanity if sex reassignment surgery is imposed children, who are not prepared to make such a life-altering, permanently body-altering decision. But secondly, it's actually just the latest outworking of a common human experience of social and cultural alienation.” ●      According to Paglia, androgyne is not just a matter of societal degeneration, it concurrently presents itself as an opportunity for traditional manhood to rise up around the periphery of such a confused culture and take it over! And that's exactly what we're seeing all around the world.”  Resources:  ●      Need employees? Don't hire workers who hate your values. Post your jobs on RedBalloon.work. America's leading non-woke job board. https://em.redballoon.work/register-for-redballoons-upcoming-webinar-with-turley-talks ●      Get carrying TODAY with Countrywide Concealed HERE: https://www.frebahlem.com/BG484F42/G38H44Q/ ●      Learn how to protect your life savings from inflation and an irresponsible government, with Gold and Silver. Go to http://www.turleytalkslikesgold.com/ ●      Ep. 1555 Sylvester Stallone DESTROYS Woke INSANITY!!! ●      You can download my NEW GUIDEBOOK “5 Steps to ESCAPE the Great RESET" for a limited time for FREE at https://free.turleytalks.com/escape-the-great-reset/ ●      Get Over 66% OFF All of Mike Lindell's Products using code TURLEY: https://www.mypillow.com/turley ●      Want free inside stock tips straight from the SEC? Click here to get started now: https://webinar.tradersagency.com/insiders-effect-turley ●      Join Dr. Steve for an unedited, uncensored extended analysis of current events in his Insiders Club at https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/ ●      BOLDLY stand up for TRUTH in Turley Merch! Browse our new designs right now at: https://store.turleytalks.com/ ●      Make sure to FOLLOW me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks ●      Get 25% off Patriotic Coffee and ALL ITEMS with Code TURLEY at https://mystore.com/turley   Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. Sick and tired of Big Tech, censorship, and endless propaganda? Join my Insiders Club with a FREE TRIAL today at: https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts. 

Sally does her washing on the narrowboat, and with spring in the air, her thoughts turn to the past. She reads from an old favourite, the children's classic novel, The Wind in the Willows, and discusses its characters and themes with her friend from next door, Maeve Magnus, who is reading it for the first time and sees close parallels between the book and their own lives on the river. Sally recalls her fierce search for meaning and direction of her university days, and how she plunged into the writings of the American scholar Camille Paglia; then she reads an illuminating passage written by a former student, the writer, art critic and academic, Rebecca Birrell. Sally ends by reflecting on her desire for privacy and space, and the adoption of literary and artistic personae, reaching back to the masks worn by actors in ancient Greece. The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help the excitable, impetuous, swaggering, but hapless Mr Toad. The novel was based on bedtime stories which Grahame, a successful banker and financier, told his seven-year-old son. The book's impressionistic descriptions of the English countryside and its mythic search for moments of grace have made it an enduring read for adults as well as children; while the setting of the book partly drew on the author's experiences of living beside the River Thames, south of Oxford - not too far from where Sally and Maeve now live. Grahame died in 1932 and lies buried in Oxford's Holywell Cemetery. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, which Sally read avidly at university, is a 1990 book about sexual decadence in Western literature and the visual arts by scholar Camille Paglia. The novel draws on the conflicts of Greek drama and demonstrates their continued relevance in its comprehensive study of Western art and literature, from Botticelli and Leonardo daVinci to Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Emily Brontë and Oscar Wilde. This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Dr Rebecca Birrell is published by Bloomsbury Circus. It is both biography and art critcism of 10 female artists, including Dora Carrington, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John. It was the Guardian Art Book of the Year and shortlisted for a number of other prestigious awards. The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding. Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far. Special thanks go to Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus. If you would like to support us, please visit - https://gofund.me/d5bef397

Based on the idiosyncratic comic series by Sam Kieth and William Messner-Loebs, The Maxx centers on a vagrant with delusions that he's a mighty superhero. While ineffective in the real world, The Maxx is powerful and important in the world of The Outback, a fantasy version of Australia that appears to be bleeding into reality. The Maxx's supporting cast includes "freelance social worker" Julie, a jaded rape survivor who helps/enables The Maxx. The main antagonist is Mr. Gone, a serial rapist who seems to have secret knowledge about Maxx, Julie, and The Outback itself. Roughly a third of a comic series was adapted into 13 animated shorts that appeared on the anthology program MTV Oddities. The show was met with low ratings and critical confusion before it was quickly canceled, but the property itself has endured to some degree in nerd culture ever since. VHS and DVD releases were coupled with a role playing game and an audiobook. The comic itself got collected into paperback in 2003 with a remastered version following ten years later. A feature film has been in development hell since 2019. Ryan is joined by Cheryl and Sylvan for an extensive discussion about this complex, singular, and surreal work of art. Talking points include the deconstructionist trend in 90's comics, how the feminine perspective is expressed in The Maxx, and what the show (and comic) have to say about rape culture. The philosophies of Camille Paglia, which are espoused by Julie in The Maxx, are given an examination as well. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryan-valentine3/support

Of Bowling, Of Alcoholism, Of Shame, Of ADHD, Of The Glory of Autism, Of The Touchstones of Camille Paglia and Ayn Rand, Of Susan Sontag, Of Philip Roth, Of The Painting That Hangs In The Bathroom at Madonna's House, Of Shepherd's Pie, Of Magic Mic...and Of That Sinister Word PARASOCIAL. You've got a friend in me.   Full episode only for subscribers. To support the show and follow the complete twisted narrative with twice as many episodes, plus bull sessions and secret chapters, become a patron at patreon.com/filthyarmenian.   Please rate, review, and spread the word.   Follow us on twitter/instagram @filthyarmenian

(episode also on my youtube channel, like and subscribe lololol! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_xTpd4lFbYzEU3jzKNyOQ)New a guy in his room #141!! This time I talk about the Idaho killer NOT beig quiet, a Tennessee cops 'open marriage', Camille Paglia and old/new feminism, and homoerotic sports stuff!!! Sike and Lubscribe now!Topics:Breaking news!!Idaho killer NOT QUIET.Grower not a shower podcast?Tennessee woman cop fucking every male cop while being married,Band couple at college,When women are aggressive,Feminism contradicting itself now w me too,Camille Paglia on Harvey Weinstein,(Clip from Paglia lecture at Lafayette College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqrwKkrCzOY&t=7023s)No trailblazers on the left anymore,Homoerotic male sports,How soon do guys have gay sex after going to prison?Any port in the storm girl!Straight guys with tiger king,Guy goes gay right away in jail.

https://patreon.com/breaktherules to help us grow + SUBSCRIBE to our Youtube: http://breaktherules.tv/ https://linktr.ee/breakth3rules Support Break The Rules ( + have your message show up during the show) via SuperChat Crypto: https://cointr.ee/breakth3rulesPaypal: https://streamlabs.com/breakth3rules DISCORD: https://discord.gg/hHTNg3M====================================================Alexander Bardhttps://twitter.com/BardissimoJack the Perfume Nationalisthttps://www.patreon.com/perfumenationalisthttps://twitter.com/lotus__pointJane Gatsbyhttps://twitter.com/jane_gatsbyhttps://welcometowonderland.substack.com/Lev Polyakovhttps://twitter.com/Levpohttp://youtube.com/levpolyakov====================================================FOLLOW US:Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/breaktherulesTwitter - http://twitter.com/breakth3rulesInstagram - http://instagram.com/breakth3rulesFacebook - http://facebook.com/breakth3rulesMinds - https://www.minds.com/breaktherulesOdysee - https://odysee.com/@breaktherules:f/liveTwitch - https://www.twitch.tv/breakth3rules/DLive - https://dlive.tv/breakth3rulesBitchute - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/JfUzQfuQpWc0/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0yovF9Vo8n1fF1DGlMuWBhApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/break-the-rules/id1543233584

Glenn Belverio joins the pod to talk about his public access program Glennda and Friends, his friendship with Camille Paglia, the successes and failures of the Sexual Revolution, the future of Gen Z, the changing landscape of Greenwich Village, and the NYC crime wave. Follow him on Instagram @glennbelverio And watch Glennda and Camille Do Downtown here. $upport CracksInPomo by clicking on this link And follow CracksInPomo on Substack, Instagram, and Twitter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stephen-adubato/support

Check under the bed for ice picks because we're tackling Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas' notorious 1992 Erotic Thriller/neo-noir, Basic Instinct. Along for trips to the gay bar and the beach house are Brooke Solomon and Jordan Gustafson from The Queer Quadrant podcast, who provide a very welcome bisexual perspective in a film accused of biphobia and misogyny. Plus: our obsession with the sequel Risk Addiction, ties to The Silence of the Lambs and Cruising, cocaine and cum, Catherine (and Sharon Stone) as a queer icon, a stacked cast of male character actors, and why you can't wear a sweater to the gay bar!References: > Celestino Deleyto. “The Margins of Pleasure: Female Monstrosity and Male Paranoia in Basic Instinct” Film Criticism Vol 21, No 3> Adam Morrison. "Essential LGBTQ Films: Basic Instinct." The Black List Blog> Camille Paglia. "Commentary." Basic Instinct BluQuestions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners> Trace: @tracedthurman> Joe: @bstolemyremote> Brooke: @brookebsolomon> Jordan: @JordanHGus> The Queer Quadrant: @QueerQuadrantBe sure to support the boys on Patreon!Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Son of the Old Left, father of the New Left, sworn enemy of the whole left -- "a century from now," in the words of Camille Paglia, "cultural historians will find David Horowitz's political and spiritual odyssey paradigmatic for our time." We gallop to the Rockies to catch up with the historic writer-warrior as he confronts his most powerful enemy yet...   To follow the complete adventure, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for the encore episode from this encounter and much more.   Recommended reading: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey and Mortality & Faith: Reflections on a Journey Through Time by David Horowitz   Sights: Shakespeare, Peter Collier, Ron Radosh, Raiders, Roger Goodell, Donald Trump, Ed Snyder, Mark Davis, Sontag, Rosenberg execution, Ramparts, Black Panthers, Robert Sheer, Isaiah Berlin, Erich Fromm, Tom Hayden, Huey Newton, Reason Magazine, Bill Kristol, Martin Luther, Pope Francis, Erdogan, Mel Gibson, Jesus, Protestants, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Joan Didion, Ben Stein, 1939, supernatural diner experience, Bernie Sanders, Christopher Hitchens, Todd Gitlin, Mollie Hemingway, Henry Louis Gates, capitalism and rap, Twin Peaks, Mario Savio, Pascal, Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin's moonwalk, Morgan, Winter's Tale, AIDS, Larry Littlejohn, Van Morrison, Cocaine   Follow us on Twitter/Insta @filthyarmenian

Naomi Wolf is one of my favourite feminists and runs the Daily Clout.   Naomi Rebekah Wolf is an American feminist author and journalist. Following her first book The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokeswoman of what has been described as the third wave of the feminist movement. Feminists including Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan praised her work. Others, including Camille Paglia, criticized it. In the 1990s, she was a political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Wolf's later books include the bestseller The End of America in 2007 and Vagina: A New Biography.   I am generally antagonistic towards (modern) feminism because it often appears to be a celebration of victimhood culture and a deliberate attack on family values and men. Having watched Cassie Jaye's documentary, The Red Pill, I was left feeling disgusted at the excessive hatred being vomited by feminists who were interviewed. Naomi, however, is nowhere near any of that misandrist nonsense. She shoots guns; she opposes abortion; she rejects state tyranny; she is heavily censored; and she likes men. Brilliant. JOIN THE JERM WARFARE COMMUNITY

In the final part of 2015, there's plenty to discuss. Hot off the VMAs, Taylor releases the Wildest Dreams music video and receives some backlash while turning out looks. Turns out the back half of this year was kind of cursed. The 1989 Ryan Adams version comes out to absolutely no one's enjoyment. Todrick Hall (noted villain) enters the canon. Then, there is a lengthy discussion of what is potentially Taylor's most revealing magazine profile: her GQ interview and cover shoot. We dive deep into the Katy Perry nonsense & take a moment to analyze how this moment altered the trajectory of her career forever. The year concludes with the bittersweet end of the 1989 tour, Out of the Woods music video, and a particularly heinous article by public intellectual Camille Paglia.

Camille Paglia Provocations - Camille Paglia Talk About Her New Book "Provocations" THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB PODCAST We Search the Web for the Best Intellectual Dark Web Podcasts, Lectures and Videos that can be understood by merely listening to save YOUR time. Then we make those Intellectual Dark Web Episodes available on Spotify and downloadable. IMPORTANT! GET THE MAIN WORKS OF HOBBES, LOCKE, ROUSSEAU / MACHIAVELLI AND THE US CONSTITUTION BOUND TOGETHER IN JUST ONE PRACTICAL BOOK: ||| MACHIAVELLI https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/niccolo-machiavelli-and-john-locke-and-thomas-hobbes-and-peter-kanzler/the-leviathan-1651-the-two-treatises-of-government-1689-and-the-constitution-of-pennsylvania-1776/paperback/product-69m6we.html XXX https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=peter%2Bkanzler&title=pennsylvania%2Bconstitution%2Bleviathan&lang=en&isbn=9781716844508&new_used=N&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr || ROUSSEAU https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jean-jacques-rousseau-and-thomas-hobbes-and-john-locke-and-peter-kanzler/the-leviathan-1651-the-two-treatises-of-government-1689-the-social-contract-1762-the-constitution-of-pennsylvania-1776/paperback/product-782nvr.html XXX https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=peter%2Bkanzler&title=pennsylvania%2Bconstitution%2Bleviathan&lang=en&isbn=9781716893407&new_used=N&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr | Thank You Dearly For ANY Support! And God Bless You.

Greetings Trashlings & Welcome back, Molly!00:00 After a wonderful Miami wedding weekend (and hilariously horrible stylist), Molly is back in London lookin' like Shepard's pie!3:30 We missed the Grammys and the Oscars but other than "the big slap" why was the next biggest headline “Haley Bieber is not pregnant” LOL she's not pregnant, we'll know when she's pregnant, and more importantly whoooo cares!? SEO cares, is who! Search us! Oh, and BREAKING NEWS Jennifer Anniston is also not pregnant!5:09 Molly's dog is horny as hell! Does anyone know how to get the dog to stop licking his own dick and humping his lamb-doll to completion? How do dogs know the bathroom is the bathroom? You'd think potty training would be easier for us, but the truth is human babies are straight-up dumb!9:44 Tik -Talk! Molly is fascinated by Chinese a Tik-Toker & finds herself haunted by an array of Chinese beauty standard videos -- specifically the emphasis the Chinese put on a woman's “cranial crest." Also women with high cheekbones are assumed to be murderous and God favors those with low hairy-hairlines (see Camila Cabello). What's worse for culture? 2010's Women's magazines or Chinese beauty tik-tokers? Either way keep it coming, we love to feel bad!! 24:43 The collective unconscious is hack! From jokes to wedding dresses to pop songs — no one's original! Who invented the term “finsta”? Everyone? 27:18 Ed Sheeran reminds us today, on the heels of winning his court case defending his “Shape of You" copyright, that there are only 12-music-notes and just a handful of pop-chords so let's chill out on the plagiarism accusations.30:39 Remember Bras? If so, how do you put your bra on? While Sara either goes bra-less or opts for the easy-way-on, Oprah, Molly, and Sara's mom agree -- there's only one "right" way to put on a bra. Sara commit to challenge herself this week and put the bra on like a big girl.39:00 Real Housewives chunk! Molly interviewed RHONY star Leah McSweeney for a cover article in Ladygunn magazine (Click to read : LEAH MCSWEENEY SPILLS THE TEA ON RHONY GOSSIP + HER NEW BOOK CHAOS THEORY by Molly Mulshine!). Sara mixes up Bethany Frankel and mortal enemy, Kelly Bensimon and the homework is to watch RHONY S3 episode entitled “scary island" to understand. While it's always been the franchise anchor, this past RHONY season was so poorly received it didn't even get a reunion special! Bring back bad behavior republican lifestyle television for us to oogle at and judge. 50:30 Ok, but for real what's the scoop on the RHONY spin-off / throw back? What makes a good real housewife? What new additions do we want to see? Anna Delvey? Julia Fox? Camille Paglia? Candace Owens!? How much do we have to pay Carole Radziwill to return? Love you, CR!Leave a Review!Shop Space Trash Merch so Molly & Sara can become real housewives with a streetwear brand & you can hide your flat cranial crest! Follow @mollymulshine @saraarmour @themoonual See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Warning: We swear a bit in this episode. You will not want to miss our first episode of 2022. Glenn Danas shares with us his story on reCHARGING his life when he became sober in 2005. Leading up to that crossroads, he lost his relationship with his significant other, lost his job at a prominent law firm, was broke, and had no relationship with his family. All of this occurred during a short window of time and his desperation and pain led him to do something about it. His recovery took over 9 months. As he said, he was lucky that he didn't need to go back to anything. This gave him the freedom to tell himself “Okay, I am here to do what I need to do, even if it takes a while”. He pulled on his humility to learn from others on recovery and resiliency to bounce back. Glenn gives us his insights on why “you are the problem” and words of wisdom for families who have relatives or friends who are struggling with addiction. An inspirational story for the new year. Glenn  is an attorney practicing in Los Angeles, California.  He specializes in civil appeals and class action litigation. The Daily Journal has recognized Glenn as one of the “Top 20 Attorney's in California under 40” in 2013, one of the “Top 100 Attorneys in California” in 2017, as well as one of the “Top Labor and Employment Attorneys” in California each year from 2015-2018. Glenn graduated from Emory University School of Law with honors and was a member of the Emory Law Journal. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations. Glenn frequently presents on California appellate and employment law issues at conferences and seminars.Connect with Glenn to learn more about him and his background:Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-danas-4678556/Twitter - @GlennDanasPodcast - Making Sense w/ Sam Harris - https://www.samharris.org/podcastsCamille Paglia - https://www.amazon.com/Camille-Paglia/e/B000AQ3UWE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareJordan Peterson - https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/Sign up for our newsletter at https://abbraccigroup.com/. Please subscribe, leave a review and tell your friends about our podcast. Learn more about the CHARGE® model by purchasing the book, The Way of the HR Warrior. Let us know about the moments for you that changed your life trajectory. Drop us a note via our website.

Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive and popular Red Scare podcast) to find out what is brewing on the anti-woke Left among the intellectual daughters of Camille Paglia. Anna takes us through her project of the reconstructed feminine combining irreverent intellectual dominance with a return to valuing motherhood informed by her claims on Soviet & American heritage. The intellectual foundation of the intersectional “oppression Olympics” and reparations discussion is further dissected amidst the twin specters of the Armenian & Jewish genocides which mysteriously appear not to register at all with today's progressives.  No puppies were eaten during this podcast, but an ambient trigger warning is otherwise in order for those with exquisite sensitivities. Caveat emptor and welcome to the Grand Finale of the inaugural year of “The Portal.”  See you all again in 2020! Skillshare: Get two whole months of unlimited access to thousands of classes for free Skillshare.com/PORTAL Chili: Save up to $300 on Chili sleep systems with visit chilitechnology.com/PORTAL Phlur: Get 20% off your FIRST custom Phlur sample set phlur.com/PORTAL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.