Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. For future episodes, subscribe to Corey’s feed on iTunes, please. Episode 17: Camping Trip Corey talks concentration camps, from Auschwitz to Guantanamo, with Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night.
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 16: Fire and Fury Corey Pein receives a report from Jason Wilson in Charlottesville, and speaks to Tim Shorrock about North Korea.
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 15: Media for the Apocalypse Corey scopes out the far-right media landscape, from Breitbart to Infowars, with Jason Wilson, who reported from the white nationalist AmRen conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Then he speaks to Michael Brooks about podcasts, persuasion...
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 14: The Online Culture Wars Corey Pein chats about online right-wing movements with writer and academic Angela Nagle.
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 13: The Secret Policeman at the Marathon Corey Pein talks about the Spanish Civil War with writer and historian Adam Hochschild.
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 12: Techies and Tankies Corey Pein discusses tankies with Michael Brooks and all things life-extending with Elmo Keep.
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here and here. Episode 11: Against the Fascist Creep Corey Pein traces the history of 20th century fascism with Alexander Reid Ross, the author of Against the Fascist Creep (AK Press, 2017).
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here and here. Episode 10: Hashtag Resistance Corey Pein talks to Michael Brooks about his Baffler piece, coauthored with David Slavick, on the failure of institutional centrism to provide adequate resistance to the far right. The article was “No Time for a Negative Peace.” ...
Corey Pein shares his podcast, NEWS FROM NOWHERE, with The Baffler. Note that previous episodes can be found here. Episode 9: Burn It Down Corey discusses David Attenborough’s Planet Earth series with Amber A’Lee Frost and Will Menaker, and talks to Adrian Bonenberger about his essay on whether the left should arm.
Welcome to this Baffler podcast, EXPERTS BAFFLED. In our first episode, Rick Perlstein talks to Baffler editor in chief Chris Lehmann about his salvo “Outsmarted” in the new issue of the magazine. They discuss the curious identity of smartness, American Psycho, the dark underbelly of meritocracy, and the long-term political origins of the “libtard” insult.