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Last Born In The Wilderness

740 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 110 ratings

A podcast about death, dying, and the ruptures of life in between.

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#363 | The Jail Is Everywhere w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Jack Norton

April 26, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the preeminent site of the adaptive, expansive, and shapeshifting carceral state, as well as the local and nationwide struggles to end it. The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration is edited by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Jack Norton, a...

TEASER: The Jail Is Everywhere w/ Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Jack Norton

April 20, 2024 15:58 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MB

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the preeminent site of the adaptive, expansive, and shapeshifting carceral state, as well as the local and nationwide struggles to end it. Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Eleanor Goldfield: Diversifying Tactics To Defend The Sacred

April 13, 2024 16:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB

This is a segment of episode 361 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “To The Trees: Diversifying Tactics To Defend The Sacred w/ Eleanor Goldfield.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eleanor-goldfield Learn more about To The Trees and how to watch: https://tothetreesfilm.com / https://eleanorg.gumroad.com Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins me to discuss her documentary To the Trees, which documents humankind’s relationship to the sacred R...

#362 | Tourism Is A Prism w/ Chris Christou

April 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 92.9 MB

Chris Christou joins me in this winding discussion to explore the subjects and themes raised in his phenomenal podcast, The End of Tourism, described as “a project about the deep causes and consequences of tourism, wanderlust, spectacle, exile,” and “an invitation into the local resistance and resilience movements in the face of each of these things.” In my discussion with him, Chris reflects on the historical moment he chose to begin this project: during the earliest waves of the global pand...

TEASER: Tourism Is A Prism w/ Chris Christou

March 30, 2024 16:07 - 6 minutes - 6.25 MB

Chris Christou joins me in this winding discussion to explore the subjects and themes raised in his phenomenal podcast, The End of Tourism, described as “a project about the deep causes and consequences of tourism, wanderlust, spectacle, exile,” as well as “an invitation into the local resistance and resilience movements in the face of each of these things.” In my discussion with him, Chris reflects on the historical moment he chose to begin this project: during the earliest waves of the glob...

Nate Bear: Plague As A Process, Not An Event

March 23, 2024 16:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

This is a segment of episode 360 “A Hundred Years Of Covid: Plague As A Process, Not An Event w/ Nate Bear.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-bear Subscribe to Nate Bear’s newsletter, Do Not Panic!: https://www.donotpanic.news Social critic and writer Nate Bear joins me to discuss his work over the years communicating his insights into the intersections between the ongoing pandemic, human-caused climate disruption, and biospheric collapse. Na...

#361 | To The Trees w/ Eleanor Goldfield

March 22, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins me to discuss her documentary To the Trees, which documents humankind’s relationship to the sacred Redwoods and the tactics tree defenders use to protect old-growth forests from the clear-cutting practices of the lumber industry. In our discussion, Eleanor disputes the claims made by the industry of practicing sustainable harvesting practices in the Pacific Northwest, and how it is part and parcel of a larger global effort by extractive industr...

TEASER: To The Trees w/ Eleanor Goldfield

March 08, 2024 22:00 - 8 minutes - 7.43 MB

Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield joins me to discuss her documentary To the Trees, which documents the sacred Redwoods and the tactics tree defenders use to protect old-growth forests from the clear-cutting practices of the lumber industry. In our discussion, Eleanor disputes the claims made by the industry of practicing sustainable harvesting practices in the Pacific Northwest, and how it is part and parcel of a larger global effort by extractive industries to greenwash ecologicall...

#360 | A Hundred Years Of Covid w/ Nate Bear

February 24, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

Social critic and writer Nate Bear joins me to discuss his work over the years communicating his insights into the intersections between the ongoing pandemic, human-caused climate disruption, and biospheric collapse. Nate describes how the abandonment of the population to repeated infection, mass illness, and death, is layered into the compounding crises affecting the living systems of the planet today. Nate Bear holds a masters in the history of international relations and worked as a journ...

TEASER: A Hundred Years Of Covid w/ Nate Bear

February 16, 2024 18:01 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MB

Social critic and writer Nate Bear joins me to discuss his work over the years communicating his insights into the intersections between the ongoing pandemic, human-caused climate disruption, and biospheric collapse. Nate communicates how the abandonment of the population to repeated infection, mass illness, and death, is layered in the compounding crises affecting the living systems of the planet today. Listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Margaret Killjoy: Writing The Ambiguous Utopia

February 09, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutes - 9.82 MB

This is a segment of episode 357 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ambiguous Utopia: Fiction, History, & Hope In A Dying World w/ Margaret Killjoy.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/margaret-killjoy-2 Learn more about Margaret’s work: https://linktr.ee/margaretkilljoy Fiction, as Margaret Killjoy points to in this interview, isn’t good at providing blueprints, it’s about finding the aspiration of what to look forward to; fiction is better at as...

Eliot Jacobson: Climate Data, Doomerism, & Deceptive Expectations

February 07, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB

This is a segment of episode 356 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Off The Charts: Climate Data, Doomerism, & Deceptive Expectations w/ Eliot Jacobson.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/eliot-jacobson Learn more about Eliot Jacobson’s work: https://climatecasino.net Climate science communicators like Eliot Jacobson have taken it upon themselves to gather numerous points of data and present it in easy to comprehend graphs and descriptions. It become...

Abby Martin: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth

February 05, 2024 17:00 - 7 minutes - 6.87 MB

This is a segment of episode 359 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth w/ Abby Martin.” Listen to the full interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/abby-martin Learn more about Earth’s Greatest Enemy: https://earthsgreatestenemy.com Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin joins me to discuss Earth's Greatest Enemy, a feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluter...

Linda & Stephanie: LCAP Fights Back

February 03, 2024 00:09 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MB

This is a segment of episode 358 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Declare Long Covid A National Emergency: “Moonshot Kills” w/ Long Covid Action Project.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lcap-activists Learn more about the Long Covid Action Project and how to participate: https://longcovidactionproject.com Long Covid Action Project [LCAP] activists Stephanie and Linda, along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, join me in this improm...

Abby Martin: There Are Many Ways To Assassinate A Journalist

February 02, 2024 23:41 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

This is a segment of episode 359 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy: The US Military-Industrial Complex Is A Climate Behemoth w/ Abby Martin.” Listen to the full interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/abby-martin In this segment of my interview with independent journalist and documentary filmmaker Abby Martin, we reflect on her powerful speech at the Belmarsh Tribunal about the persecution of Julian Assange by the United Kingdom and the United States...

#359 | Earth’s Greatest Enemy w/ Abby Martin

January 27, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin joins me to discuss Earth's Greatest Enemy, a feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military. I ask Abby what the seeds of this massive project were, and why the military-industrial complex is the "elephant in the room" in the political discourse on human-caused climate change. Also, we connect this subject to the horrific mass violence...

#358 | Declare Long Covid A National Emergency w/ Long Covid Action Project

January 25, 2024 19:49 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

Long Covid Action Project [LCAP] activists Stephanie and Linda, along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, join me in this impromptu interview to discuss the recent direct action Linda and Stephanie participated in at the Senate HELP Committee Hearing on January 18, ostensibly held to address the ongoing and growing Long Covid crisis in the United States. This is the first in an ongoing series of interviews done in collaboration with journalist and LCAP founder and activist Josh...

#357 | The Ambiguous Utopia w/ Margaret Killjoy

January 15, 2024 23:57 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB

Anarchist writer, musician, and podcaster Margaret Killjoy returns to the podcast to discuss the political act of writing fiction and imagining the “ambiguous utopia.” I ask Margaret to define what hope is or can be, and how her work communicating the stories of radical individuals and movements during pivotal moments throughout history on her podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, can help us (re-)frame contemporary struggles for liberation, justice, and peace in the world today. Margaret...

TEASER: Earth's Greatest Enemy w/ Abby Martin

January 10, 2024 19:38 - 6 minutes - 5.79 MB

Independent journalist and documentarian Abby Martin joins me to discuss Earth's Greatest Enemy, a feature length documentary that examines one of the largest polluters and contributors to global climate change in the world: the United States military. Listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

#356 | Off The Charts w/ Eliot Jacobson

January 06, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

Eliot Jacobson—climate science communicator and “know-it-all doomer”—joins me to discuss his eclectic background, why climate change data in 2023 was off the charts, and what it means to be a doomer at his stage of climate and ecological breakdown. Eliot Jacobson, PhD is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science, retired casino consultant, now a full-time volunteer, husband and grandfather. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Eliot and his work at his website: https://climateca...

Rashid Khalidi: The Ongoing Nakba & US Complicity

January 05, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

This is a segment of 355 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ongoing Nakba: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rashid-khalidi Purchase a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine at Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3GTaCe Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khal...

Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian Identity Formation & The Hundred Years' War

January 04, 2024 09:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MB

This is a segment of 355 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Ongoing Nakba: The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/rashid-khalidi Purchase a copy of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine at Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3GTaCe Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khal...

Betsy Gaines Quammen: Myth & Mending In The American West

January 03, 2024 17:39 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

This is a segment of episode 354 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “True West: Myth & Mending In The American West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/betsy-gaines-quammen-2 Purchase a copy of True West from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3TjfJfM Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building o...

TEASER: The Ambiguous Utopia w/ Margaret Killjoy [UNLOCKED]

December 24, 2023 23:33 - 7 minutes - 6.98 MB

UNLOCKED: Anarchist writer, musician, and podcaster Margaret Killjoy returns to the podcast to discuss the political act of writing fiction and imagining the “ambiguous utopia”—à la Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed and Killjoy’s A Country of Ghosts. I ask Margaret to define what hope is or can be, and how her work communicating the stories of radical individuals and movements during pivotal moments throughout history on her podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, can help us (re-)frame conte...

#355 | The Ongoing Nakba w/ Rashid Khalidi

December 23, 2023 18:32 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khalidi weaves his multigenerational familial roots to historic Palestine with decades of academic scholarship to present a narrative that plainly addresses the so-called Israel-Palestine conflict for what it is. He addresses how Palestinian identity was catalyzed and formed over the past century, as well as the respons...

TEASER: The Ongoing Nakba w/ Rashid Khalidi

December 21, 2023 21:21 - 7 minutes - 6.41 MB

Professor and historian Rashid Khalidi joins me to discuss his book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Professor Khalidi weaves his multigenerational familial roots to historic Palestine with decades of academic scholarship to present a narrative that plainly addresses the so-called Israel-Palestine conflict for what it is. He addresses how Palestinian identity was catalyzed and formed over the past century, as well as the responsi...

Shane Burley: Antisemitic Zionism

December 12, 2023 19:25 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB

This is a segment of episode 353 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “A Nation For A Nation: Full-Scale Revenge; Antisemitic Zionism w/ Shane Burley.” Listen to the two-part episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/shane-burley-5 Read Shane’s article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself, published by Religion Dispatches: https://bit.ly/3QAw8JQ Author and journalist Shane Burley examines about the contexts that u...

#354 | True West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen

December 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 76 MB

Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen follows the historical roots and trajectories of troubling political trends in the Western United States, decoupling the myths and material realities of the landscapes and the peoples and the more-than-human lives that occupy them. Betsy Gaines Quammen is ...

TEASER: Off The Charts w/ Eliot Jacobson

December 03, 2023 00:16 - 5 minutes - 5.36 MB

Eliot Jacobson—climate science communicator and “know-it-all doomer”—joins me to discuss his eclectic background, climate change data, how and why 2023 was off the charts, and what it means to be a doomer. Support the podcast and listen to this interview before the public release: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

#353 Part Two | A Nation For A Nation: Antisemitic Zionism w/ Shane Burley

November 12, 2023 09:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MB

In the second part of my two-part interview with author and journalist Shane Burley, we continue our discussion about the contexts that underlie the dramatic escalation of violence by the State of Israel in the Palestinian territories since Hamas’s October 7th attack. We focus on the validity of claims made by pro-Israel Zionists of antisemitism on the part of Palestinian liberation activists in demanding not only a ceasefire, but the ending of apartheid and continual expansion of Israeli Jew...

#353 Part One | A Nation For A Nation: Full-Scale Revenge w/ Shane Burley

November 10, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

Journalist and author Shane Burley returns to the podcast to discuss his article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself, published by Religion Dispatches. He addresses historical traumas and contexts that underlie, in part, the dramatic escalation of violence by the State of Israel in the Palestinian territories since Hamas’s October 7th attack. This is part one of a two-part interview. Shane Burley is known for his work on the...

Arun Gupta: The Horizons Beyond Food Production Under Capitalism

November 07, 2023 22:59 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

This is a segment of episode 352 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Bananas For Socialism: The Horizons Beyond Food Production Under Capitalism w/ Arun Gupta.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/arun-gupta-3 Read Arun’s article Bananas for Socialism at Dissent Magazine, part of his Apocalypse Chow column: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/bananas-for-socialism In this expansive discussion, investigative journalist and food columnist Aru...

TEASER: A Nation For A Nation w/ Shane Burley

November 05, 2023 18:47 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MB

Journalist and author Shane Burley returns to the podcast to discuss his article The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself, published by Religion Dispatches. He addresses historical traumas and contexts that underlie, in part, the dramatic escalation of violence by the State of Israel in the Palestinian territories since Hamas’s October 7th attack. This is a two-part interview. Support the podcast and listen to this interview befo...

TEASER: True West w/ Betsy Gaines Quammen

October 28, 2023 20:17 - 5 minutes - 4.69 MB

Historian and author Betsy Gaines Quammen returns to the podcast to discuss her new book, True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America, published by Torrey House Press. Building on her previous book, American Zion, Gaines Quammen follows the historical roots and trajectories of troubling political trends in the Western United States, decoupling the myths and material realities of the landscapes and the peoples and the more-than-human lives that occupy them. Support the podcast and ...

#352 | Bananas For Socialism w/ Arun Gupta

October 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 75.7 MB

In this expansive discussion, investigative journalist and food columnist Arun Gupta tackles the extremely online drama between "progrowth" and "degrowth" leftists about one of the cheapest fruits you can find in the supermarket: the banana. Will we have bananas under socialism? Arun Gupta is an investigative reporter who has written for the Guardian, the Daily Beast, the Intercept, The Washington Post, and other publications. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, cooked profess...

TEASER: Bananas For Socialism w/ Arun Gupta

October 11, 2023 16:11 - 6 minutes - 5.89 MB

In this expansive discussion, investigative journalist and food columnist Arun Gupta tackles the extremely online drama between "progrowth" and "degrowth" leftists about one of the cheapest fruits you can find in the supermarket: the banana. Will we have bananas under socialism?  Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw: Nature's Way Of Raising Children

October 08, 2023 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

This is a segment of episode 351 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way Of Raising Children w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/narvaez-bradshaw Purchase a copy of The Evolved Nest from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3EVpbxM Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connecte...

#351 | The Evolved Nest w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw

September 26, 2023 22:12 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities published by North Atlantic Books. G. A. Bradshaw, PhD, is the founder and director of The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence. Her diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in free-living elephants launched the field of trans-species psychology. She holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology and a mast...

TEASER: The Evolved Nest w/ Darcia Narvaez & G.A. Bradshaw

September 19, 2023 19:20 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MB

Darcia Narvaez returns to the podcast, along with co-author G.A. Bradshaw, to discuss their new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

John Vaillant: The Petrocene & The Making Of A Beast

September 03, 2023 00:16 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB

This is a segment of episode 350 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Fire Weather: The Petrocene & The Making Of A Beast w/ John Vaillant.” Listen to the full episode and read the transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/john-vaillant Purchase a copy of Fire Weather from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3s9CqHZ Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first ...

Jonathan Howard: Contrarian Doctors & The Failed Quest For Herd Immunity

August 16, 2023 18:20 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB

This is a segment of episode 349 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “We Want Them Infected: Contrarian Doctors & The Failed Quest For Herd Immunity w/ Jonathan Howard.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/jonathan-howard Learn more about and purchase We Want Them Infected: https://bit.ly/44JkRwy / https://a.co/d/6KrEc9A Jonathan Howard MD joins me to discuss his timely book, We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to E...

#350 | Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

August 11, 2023 23:28 - 1 hour - 84 MB

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Fire Weather is an astounding chronicle of the boreal fire that swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta in May 2016. Over the course of 24 hours, the nearly 90,000 residents of this modern-day bitumen subarctic boom town evacuated, escaping the out of control fire as it eviscerated everything in its path. Vaillant z...

TEASER: Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

August 06, 2023 01:22 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MB

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss 'Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast', a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Cara Wall-Scheffler: Human Locomotion & The Diversity Of Foraging Societies

August 04, 2023 16:37 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MB

This is a segment of episode 348 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Myth Of Man The Hunter: Human Locomotion & The Diversity Of Foraging Societies w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cara-wall-scheffler Read ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published at PLOS ONE: https://bit.ly/44E0DVc Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolut...

#349 | We Want Them Infected w/ Jonathan Howard

July 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

Jonathan Howard MD joins me to discuss his timely book, 'We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID', published by Redhawk Publications. As much as Jonathan Howard’s book is a scathing examination of how various very influential and contrarian doctors misled the US public about the coronavirus pandemic, it is also a historical document. By meticulously, carefully, and thoroughly q...

#348 | The Myth Of Man The Hunter w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler

July 24, 2023 19:45 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB

Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, 'The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts', published last month in PLOS ONE. The data gathered and examined across numerous foraging societies by the authors of this ethnographic review points to the incredible diversity of labor males and female...

Nate Holdren: Social Murder, Depoliticization, & Finding The Common We

May 19, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB

This is a segment of episode 347 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Broken Sociality: Isolation, Social Murder, & The Process Of Depoliticization w/ Nate Holdren." Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-holdren Read ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”’ at Peste Magazine: https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, polit...

#347 | Broken Sociality w/ Nate Holdren

May 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay 'Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”'. The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency...

#347 | Broken Sociality: Isolation, Social Murder, & The Process Of Depoliticization w/ Nate Holdren

May 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay 'Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”'. The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency...

Matthew Remski: The Self Project & How The Apolitical Is Political

May 09, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB

This is a segment of episode 346 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Disaster Spirituality: The Self Project & How The Apolitical Is Political w/ Matthew Remski.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-2 Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat' from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj Conspirituality podcast co-host and journalist Matthew Remski returns to the podcast, bringing his ongoing analysis of o...

Guests

Alex Vitale
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Iain McGilchrist
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Johann Hari
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Margaret Killjoy
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Nicholas Humphrey
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Books

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Voice of the Gods
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Playing with Fire
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