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Emergency Politics, Revolutionary Gen Z, General Strikes, and Business School for Leftists | Ep. 49
This is where the liberal resistance people were always right.
Oct 26
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Can "House of Dynamite" Change the Nuclear Debate?
Art Against Armageddon Goes Welll Beyond Hollywood
Published on Disarming Humorist
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Oct 22
Part II: WarGames (1983) w/ Sam Ratner & Andy Facini | Ep. 48
Van and Lyle are joined by Sam Ratner, Policy Director at Win Without War, and Andy Facini, Communications Director at the Council on Strategic Risks…
Oct 22
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Part I of II: WarGames (1983) w/ Sam Ratner & Andy Facini | Ep. 47
Van and Lyle are joined by Sam Ratner, Policy Director at Win Without War, and Andy Facini, Communications Director at the Council on Strategic Risks…
Oct 15
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) w/ Dan Borus | Ep. 46
Van and Lyle are joined by historian Dan Borus, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s Dr.
Oct 10
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The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name in the War Room
Dr. Strangelove and the McCarthyite Discourse on Homosexuality
Oct 8
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Stephen Spielberg's Munich (2005) w/ Eli Valley | Ep. 45
Artist and writer Eli Valley joins us to wrestle with Steven Spielberg’s Munich, the director’s retelling of the 1972 Olympics massacre and Israel’s…
Oct 1
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September 2025
Adam Driver and the Obama-Era Torture Report
An inglorious moment in the arugula and avocado-toast era gave Trump the power to take American civil liberties right now.
Published on Un-Diplomatic
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Sep 27
The Report (2019) w/ Adrian Horton | Ep. 44
The Guardian arts writer Adrian Horton joins us to discuss The Report, Scott Z.
Sep 24
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Lone Survivor (2013) w/ Wes Morgan | Ep. 43
The combat journalist Wes Morgan joins us to unpack Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor—a film that packages “victim-hero” mythology in SEAL-recruiting…
Sep 14
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) w/ Osita Nwanevu | Ep. 42
Osita Nwanevu joins us to revisit David Lean’s epic with an eye toward empire’s soft power: the seductive aesthetics that make conquest look noble, even…
Sep 8
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August 2025
The Hunt for Red October (1990) w/ Remember Shuffle Pod | Ep. 41
Van and Lyle are joined by Ben and Jordano from the Remember Shuffle podcast to take on The Hunt for Red October (1990), John McTiernan’s Cold War…
Aug 25
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