Gunpower Death Drive w/ Patrick Blanchfield
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email. Check out our …
“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield
What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first …
Patrick Blanchfield on Serious Men
Serious people in Washington are seduced by vapid and self-serving accounts of their savvy operation of the machinery of government—works like Bob Woodward’s latest exercise in extended stenography Fear: Trump …
Comey Liberal Cop Fetish
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Gun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture is one that expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals—including, apparently, the self-sacrificing courage to charge an AR-15 wielding gunman while your classmates cower behind bulletproof …
That Trump Book Tho with Patrick Blanchfield
Your first Diglet of the new year, and we’re talking about that Trump book. At n+1 Patrick Blanchfield makes the case that Fire and Fury is not, as some might …