The Antifada

Our friend and comrade Natasha Lennard joins us for a discussion themed around her forthcoming book with Brad Evans, "Violence: Humans in Dark Times."

Tash's thoughts on the royal wedding. The US media's problematic framing of the most recent killings in Gaza. Angela Davis on the violence of the status quo. The uncounted millions who've met premature deaths due to the predations of capitalism...

Jamie, Sean and Andy take a field trip to the occupied New School to interview "K," an anonymous student, about New School students' latest direct action in solidarity with cafeteria workers (repped by UNITE HERE Local 100) and grad students (SENS-UAW). Later, back at the ranch, the gang contextualizes this occupation with some history of the modern university: its roots, its social function, and how it has developed as a site of struggle...

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Our guest canceled so Jamie picked up a rando at the DSA convention to fill in. Thanks for being such a good sport, rando!

Jamie and the rando — whose name, it turns out, is Andrew Callaway — recap a bit of what went down at the convention, including a "turn-to-industry" proposal and a spicy debate around Bernie 2020...

If you thought last episode was arcane, get a load of this shit! We sit down with Ross Wolfe of https://thecharnelhouse.org to venture into the farthest, darkest reaches of left theory... in order to resurrect the nightmares of dead generations within the minds of our listeners.

Ross discusses how Sean nearly came to blows with famous fashy troll Kantbot at a Verso Books party. Jamie informs Sean that she thought he was a violent horror man when they first dated...

In the most cerebral episode yet of The Antifada, Jamie and Sean welcome old friend Asher Dupuy-Spencer of Verso Books into the studio.

The gang talks about Jamie's near death experience at a nazi swimming hole in New Hampshire. We celebrate the memory of all-around feminist icon and totally-not ruling class monster-person Barbara Bush... leading Jamie to use the strongest genital-related epithet in the English language...

In The Antifada's HARD LAUNCH episode, Jamie and Sean speak with socialist power couple Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone about aggression in Syria, the governor's race in New York, and liberal derangement syndrome. Liza does an on-air version of her socialist-feminist advice column in The Nation, "Asking for a Friend."

Jamie almost sells out, but mistakes ice cream for soap so w/e. Sean reminds us that leftists don't make heroes of i-banking cops like James Comey...

Up the punx! Jamie, Sean and guest Aaron Petcoff of the ISO discuss music, religion and sacred cows. We talk shit on Fiverr. Sean confuses Epitaph with Hellcat records like an old idiot. Jamie revisits one of her childhood favorites. We try nuance for the first time with regard to religion and socialism. We discuss our lame faves. Jamie cucks Sean thrice.

Uber-producer Matt couldn't make it, so we screwed up the levels. Sorry!

Sean delves deep into tankiebook and brings back some scintillating slash fic about Comrade Stalin. Tankie Lena Dunham is introduced. The guys get excited and talk over Jamie. Whatever.

Everybody knows that legendary soul singer Barry White and Zionist writer Bari Weiss are not the same person. What this episode presupposes is, maybe they are?

Jamie, Sean and Matt sit down with Niral Shah, DSA member and managing editor of Blunderbuss Magazine, to talk hasbara hack Bari Weiss, no platforming, and the collapse of respectable centrist discourse.