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Park Avenue Whistleblower w/Nick McDonell
Listen now | We talk to novelist Nick McDonell about his life among the Park Avenue set.
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
1:29:16
Slavery, Jews, Reggae and the Durability of Power
E gave me a book about the history of Jews in NYC and it reminded me of something I knew about but haven't thought about in a long time.
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Yasha Levine
7
Elon Musk, the man who wants to be our demiurge
He's a god of the internet — a minor god but a powerful god nonetheless.
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Yasha Levine
3
The Century of the Modified Self w/Oliver Bateman
Listen now (101 mins) | While trans rights provide fuel to America’s never-ending culture wars, there’s something in the corner that doesn’t get as much…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
7
1:41:12
Thinking about Soviet films on Victory Day
Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
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Evgenia
3
What You Should Know
Some thoughts on lobbies and atavistic violence. 05/8/2025
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Yasha Levine
25
Eunuchs by choice?
We discuss the Twitter scandal I unwittingly caused by talking about the connection between children and art. What was meant as an offhand remark made…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
20
1:58:26
Red Bourgeoisie w/Branko Milanovic
We have Branko Milanovic, an economist born in Yugoslavia, on to talk about class and inequality in the USSR.
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
5
43:28
Talking about "Too Hot To Work" and other harem/incel fantasies
We discuss Evgenia’s essay on Too Hot To Work. Some of the things we talk about are: the crisis of liberal feminism, incels under communism, how…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
4
1:20:24
MADE IN THE USA: A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN
You’re Marc Andreessen and you’re in Palo Alto and you’re riding your $35,000 ebike to work.
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Yasha Levine
8

April 2025

Sergei Eisenstein vs Hollywood
When Russian artists had self-respect
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Evgenia
12
Signal and the Chats of the Gods
American spies started it for "privacy" and reactionary Silicon Valley billionaires now control it because it protects them from the libs and the…
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Yasha Levine
6
Too Hot to Work
Prostitution is cool again
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Evgenia
20
The Age of the Peripheral Man (and Woman)
You thought you were smarter, stronger, and wiser just because you were the ones on top. But something is changing inside you. You don’t want to admit…
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Yasha Levine
15
All is not well here
We recorded this ep on the centennial anniversary of the Great Gatsby but end up having a wide-ranging convo about culture, religion and politics …
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
11
2:08:52
The best biography of Lenin
On his 155th birthday
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Yasha Levine
10
How to harass your servants with class
Rich Russians learning etiquette
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Evgenia
6
What You Should Know
Book, novels, films, news. 4/20/25.
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Yasha Levine
12
When the 1% actually writes about what it knows: "Quiet Street" by Nick McDonell
Or how America’s 1% compares to Russia’s 1%…
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Evgenia
32
NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE!
Talking about collapse and nihilism. 4/13/2025.
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
9
2:13:36
Hollywood Refugee w/Joshua Turek
We talk to poet and stand-up comedian Joshua Turek about today’s cultural and political crisis and ways to deal with it.
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Evgenia
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Yasha Levine
7
2:09:59
How will Americans deal with the disgrace that comes with decline?
lessons from another collapse
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Yasha Levine
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America and Russia are a single meta-nation
Evgenia and I were talking a bit and I was taking some notes for our event tonight in NYC and I ended up typing up a very basic outline of something…
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Yasha Levine
7
Hobbes in Russia. My favorite movies about girls during social collapse.
Weekend movie recs.
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Evgenia
4
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