HeyJaredAgainst the Grain
How the right is remaking America. A podcast hosted by Matthew Schmitz and Julia Yost.
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The Rural Surge (opens the original)
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Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” reigns atop the Billboard charts. Four of this season’s top ten TV shows are Westerns or neo-Westerns. Gen Z is embracing line dancing, Shania Twain, and Coors beer. For years, country music and motifs were associated with an America that was fading away. Matthew and Julia discuss their surprising vogue. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/counterepod or counterpod.substack.com .
The Postwar Order Is Ending (with R. R. Reno) (opens the original)
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Karl Popper’s ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’ (1945) defined the postwar consensus in favor of liberal democracy and ever expanding freedom. Today, that consensus has come to an end. Matthew and Julia talk to First Things editor R. R. Reno about what is arising in its place. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/counterepod or counterpod.substack.com .
AI Apocalypse Now (with Greg Conti) (opens the original)
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Americans are turning against artificial intelligence, with data centers and Flock cameras in the crosshairs. Is AI just another technology? Or will it, as industry leaders predict, mean the end of democracy, of capitalism, even of humanity? Greg Conti joins Matthew and Julia. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/counterepod or counterpod.substack.com .
Helen Andrews on ‘Race Communism’ (opens the original)
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Affirmative Action and DEI are usually thought to benefit racial minorities. But what happens when these measures actually benefit a numerical majority? Matthew and Julia talk to Helen Andrews about how America’s changing racial demographics have altered the logic of its racial bargain. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/counterepod or counterpod.substack.com .
Forget Wokeness: ‘The Odyssey’ Has More Basic Problems (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been condemned by Elon Musk and others as woke. But politics aside, does it actually work as an action movie? Matthew and Julia have their doubts. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/againstthepod or counterpod.substack.com .
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