Geoff Shullenberger @daily_barbarian & I discuss how Graeber & Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything" dismantles old myths about the rise of civilization, but throws the baby out with the bathwater by discounting the creative power of myth, ritual, & kinship: soundcloud.com/historiansplai…

This week I'm joined by Samuel Biagetti of Historiansplaining podcast for a crossover episode in which we critically assess David Graeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything," an intriguing but flawed revisionist history of humanity. outsidertheory.fireside.fm/dawn-of-everyt…

New episode: geographer Jacob Shell discusses his research on "subversive mobility" and the light it sheds on events like the trucker convoy; plus academic radicals as establishment apologists, de-growth, pipelines, Ivan Illich, elephants, and more! outsidertheory.fireside.fm/subversive-mob…

The latest in my series of guest posts on mimetic theory comes from MyFitnessFeelings, who examines a little-discussed dimension of Girard's "Violence and the Sacred": the surprising connection he makes between vaccination and human sacrifice. outsidertheory.com/the-sacrificia…

til Joseph Trombino, one of the armored truck drivers injured in the Weather Underground/Black Liberation Army Brinks robbery, later went on to survive the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing *and then* died in the North Tower on 9/11... legacy.com/Sept11/Story.a…

New guest post: a review of the exhibit "Supernatural America," currently at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, by Leif Bergerud. outsidertheory.com/out-there/

As with every Current Thing, the proliferation of contradictory theories about the Supreme Court leak again confirms:“in a logic of simulation...[t]he facts are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once." nymag.com/intelligencer/…

New episode: Jacob Siegel joins me to discuss the trajectory of the heterodox journal Telos and its founder and editor, Paul Piccone. Also: the continued relevance of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," Marcuse's paleocon student Paul Gottfried, and more. outsidertheory.fireside.fm/right-critical…

In the latest episode, Alice Gribbin joins me to discuss her excellent recent Tablet Magazine essay "The Great Debasement," the transformation of museums into propaganda organs, and the mission creep afflicting our cultural institutions more generally. outsidertheory.fireside.fm/great-debaseme…

The podcast has been on a summer hiatus lately due to travel but, new episodes with Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️ and @psychosort will drop in the next two weeks. In the meantime, catch me with Justin Murphy on Girard, Baudrillard, covid, and my upcoming Girard course here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

After a summer hiatus, Outsider Theory is back! I speak to Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️ on his highly recommended new The New Atlantis essay series "Reality: A Post-Mortem." outsidertheory.fireside.fm/rip-reality

Critical theory showed that individualism, objectivity, and universalism may become tools of subjugation; yet the same is true of new ideals like diversity, equity, and inclusion & environmental, social, and governance scores. Lisa Nelson in : compactmag.com/article/the-co…