- Can’t recommend this episode enough — two voices that are in my regular pod rotation, coring right into all the ways political discourse in the U.S. has gone so thoroughly off the rails. Informative? Probably. Cathartic? As all get-out
- Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
- Agreed. I finally had a chance to listen yesterday and they put words to all the hunches I've collected over the past 5+ years. Maybe this massive existential threat to our democracy we're living through will at least result in this nihilistic apathy being condemned. It's not "cool," it's cruel.
