EP24: Darts and Lasers (ft. Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson, & Batya Weinbaum)

EP8.1: Bantering with Bannon: In this bonus episode, host Gordon Katic speaks with Ben Teitelbaum, author of a fascinating new-ish book called War for Eternity. He spent over 20 hours with Steve Bannon, as well as a wider network of far-right thinkers and strategists. Honestly, by Darts and Letters

77 min listen

EP9: The Founding Grift: Lately, things have been a little too heavy on this show. Insurrections, fascism, proto-fascism, weird apocalyptic visions. That stuff is important, but let’s get serious. You don’t think the society we live is actually dominated by people who hold any... by Darts and Letters

76 min listen

EP4: The Conquest of Bread: You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixing the price of bread in Canada. They helped on Trump’s immigration policies, but their ideas were too extreme even for ICE. More recently, they proposed that Purdue Pharma “turbocharge”... by Darts and Letters

77 min listen

EP16.1: Mesmerizing Convolutions: The Rise of Fingerprint Identification: In this bonus episode, Gordon Katic speaks with Simon A. Cole, a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at University of California Irvine. He’s the author of “Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification”. by Darts and Letters

55 min listen

EP16: Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise: When it comes to complex social problems, us sensible well-educated book-learnin’ types turn to the experts; we ‘believe science’ — unlike those snorting, hooting, semi-literate dunces. But over the next two weeks, by Darts and Letters

83 min listen

EP6: Katichisms: What’s the matter with Catholics? They are strangely over-represented in the conservative intellectual ranks. From William F. Buckley to Steve Bannon and many others, Catholics have long been the brains of the modern American right. by Darts and Letters

77 min listen

EP3.1: Decoding Dominionism: You liked our last episode, Pew Research Center, so I wanted to bring you more. We were just scratching the surface on far-right political theology. On this bonus episode, Andre Gagne takes us deeper. We talk through an intellectual history of the key ... by Darts and Letters

68 min listen

EP22: The Colonial Lens (ft. Uahikea Maile, Max Liboiron, & Pam Palmater): Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything really being done, or is it all for show? In this episode, by Darts and Letters

59 min listen

EP4.1: Auditing the Auditors: Our last episode, “the Conquest of Bread,” was about McKinsey and Co. encroaching on higher education. In this bonus episode, we put these developments in a wider context. That context: audit culture. Put simply, it’s governing by numbers. by Darts and Letters

57 min listen

EP15: Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children: In recent years, the left seems to have ceded the issue of free speech — or, rather, flipped on it. For years, it defended against censorship, stood up to global imperialism, decried efforts to silence resisters and renegades, by Darts and Letters

79 min listen

EP20: The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed (ft. Destiny, Trevor Strunk, Cypheroftyr & T.L. Taylor) by Darts and Letters

84 min listen

EP13.1: Gamers of the World, Unite! (w/ Paolo Pedercini): In this bonus episode, Gordon Katic speaks with Paolo Pedercini, a professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and a game developer who runs Molleindustria. Pedericini’s games offer systemic critiques of capitalism, by Darts and Letters

65 min listen

EP5: Prison Notebooks: I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. by Darts and Letters

61 min listen

EP3: Pew Research Center: You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But the evangelical right is a force to be reckoned with, even with Trump on his way out. So, by Darts and Letters

91 min listen

EP23: Back to the Land: Indigenous Schooling in a Colonial State (ft. Kyla LeSage & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson): Canada is a colonial and genocidal state, past and present. The horrifying news of the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School is evidence of that, by Darts and Letters

54 min listen

EP17: Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith: Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept claiming that these deaths were the result of foul play. He was thought of as a God in his field–few peop... by Darts and Letters

76 min listen

EP20.1: Solid Strunk (ft. Trevor Strunk of No Cartridge): In this bonus episode, we talk more with Trevor Strunk of No Cartridge. Trevor has a forthcoming book called Story Mode: Video Games and the Interplay Between Consoles and Culture. It’s coming out this November. by Darts and Letters

51 min listen

EP7: It Takes Coup to Tango: We’re all still processing what just happened on Capitol Hill. Clearly, there is a mounting proto-fascist threat that must be stopped. But liberals are being rash in their response, and this is likely to only enflame things. by Darts and Letters

69 min listen

EP24: Darts and Lasers (ft. Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson, & Batya Weinbaum): It’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode. This week we enter the world of science fiction, revealing how it’s long been a vehicle for radical thought We dig into post-s... by Darts and Letters

60 min listen

EP12: Left Jab (w/ Garth Mullins of CRACKDOWN): As the pandemic drifts into its one-year anniversary, all eyes are on the end of the thing. Whenever that may be. Discovering, producing, and shipping vaccines is the big plank in the world’s plan to move beyond the coronavirus, by Darts and Letters

68 min listen

Summer Bonus EP: Decolonizing Marxism (w/Boaventura de Sousa Santos): Writing in 19th century Europe, Karl Marx was reflecting a time and place: Europe in the wake of the closing years of the Industrial Revolution. Marx himself, later in life, recognized that his crowning work, Das Kapital, had a limited scope, by Darts and Letters

44 min listen

EP13: Boss Battles: The video game industry is a behemoth. It shapes our culture, it shapes our discourse, and it’s on its way to becoming something like a $200 billion industry. But what is it like for the people who make the games we enjoy? Unfortunately, by Darts and Letters

51 min listen

EP19: Seizing the Means of Run Production (ft. Dave Zirin of the Nation) [Rebroadcast]: Programming note: It’s Major League Baseball postseason and Darts and Letters is (coincidentally) on a break this week. In honour of the playoffs, we’re running one of our favourite episodes — one fit for the season. by Darts and Letters

83 min listen

EP18: The People’s President (ft. Steve & Larson of Going in Raw) by Darts and Letters

84 min listen

EP26: The French Connection (ft. Jean-Yves Camus, Matt McManus, & Joe Mullhall): The national security state is alive, well, and growing. By weaponizing the threat of right-wing extremism, governments are building out their post-9/11 securitization projects. The far-right, however, is dangerous and does need to be stopped. by Darts and Letters

79 min listen

EP32: Academic Disaster Capitalism (w/Gary Rhoades): School’s back. Alongside the usual challenges of managing college and university life comes sorting out how to keep people on campus safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Colleges and universities are trying to find their way forward after a rough 18 mont... by Darts and Letters

47 min listen

EP10: Whose Mine Is It Anyway?: Canada likes to trade on the “middle power” trope. Tucked away among the many, snuggled up with peer states just outside the focus given to global hegemons, the country goes about its business, friendly and mild. Nothing to see here. by Darts and Letters

59 min listen

EP21: Letters From Herzl (ft. Rashid Khalidi & Faisal Bhabha): Gazans live in an open-air prison within an apartheid state. Backed by the United States and USD $3.8b a year in military aid, Israel dominates Palestinians. Recent Israeili airstrikes on Gaza have left over 200 Palestinians and a dozen Irsaelis dead. by Darts and Letters

79 min listen

EP8: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fascism!: Donald Trump is no longer president—the Biden era has officially begun. But it begins still reeling from a siege on the capital. As we said last week, we have to figure out how to respond. But respond intelligently. This week, by Darts and Letters

68 min listen

EP14: How to Save the News: Journalism is in crisis. Of course, there’s no shortage of rescue ideas. Sometimes it’s billionaires buying newspapers as vanity projects. Other times it’s techno-utopianism. Or plucky startups pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. by Darts and Letters

39 min listen

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