Cracks in Postmodernity

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  How Modernity Failed Our Cities: Islam, Architecture, & Belonging w/ Marwa al-Sabouni 14.10.2026 54min

  Marwa al-Sabouni joins the pod to discuss mosque architecture, urban design, the limits of modernism, and what the West gets wrong about Islam.Check out her book https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/mosque-an-architects-exploration-of-form-faith-and-meaning-hardcoverAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Make America Gay (NOT Queer) Again w/ Matthew Vines 27.09.2026 1t 30min

  Matthew Vines joins the pod to discuss his NYTimes article about how queer theory is ruining everything for the gays. Check out his article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion/queer-gay-rights.htmlAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Get Over It [Trigger Warning] Fragile Millennials! w/ Catherine Liu 27.08.2026 1t 15min

  Catherine Liu joins the pod to talk about trauma scripts, AOC and other fragile millennials, Laschian narcissism, the identitarian co-opting of the Left, and how to get over yourself. Check out her new book ‘Traumatized’ https://www.versobooks.com/products/3263-traumatized?srsltid=AfmBOopbQa25m4AqVp8AJGGAEUOiQwk8D6B1dJbtl6cKPEPz6w4Wcc1M And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Is an air-conditioned life worth living? 13.08.2026 1t 18min

  Stephen joins Juan Martinez and Juan Merchan on El Matiz podcast to talk about the evils of air conditioning, Baudrillard's love (and my hate) of hyperreal America, Lorca’s Poems, Shakira, the terror of shopping malls, the Floridian hellscape, and Canadian cathedrals.For more, check outhttps://elmatizdifusion.substack.com/https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/take-this-lorca-waltzhttps://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/american-portals-reaching-the-alchemicalhttps://www.theblaze.com/lifestyle/my-crusade-against-air-conditioning
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  Orthobros Revisited w/ Steven Christoforou 30.07.2026 53min

  Steven Christoforou joins the pod to talk about Orthobros, internet Orthodoxy, Charles Taylor, cradle ethnic Orthodox, and other Orthodox things.Check out FOCUS https://focusnorthamerica.org/And Steven's page https://stevenchristoforou.substack.com/And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  It's so hard being a white millennial male w/ Jacob Savage 16.07.2026 49min

  Jacob Savage joins the pod to discuss why it's so hard to be a white [passing] cisgender millennial male writer, and why you should feel bad for us. Jk. We discuss everything from DEI in publishing to our favorite dude writers. Check out is work here https://substack.com/@jacobksavageAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  You're being such a Jesuit w/ Nick Leeper SJ 01.07.2026 1t 3min

  Nick Leeper SJ joins the pod to discuss his recent art exhibit, Andy Warhol, being a Jesuit, what constitutes sacrilege, and plays a round of "hot or not" with us.Check out his work https://www.nkleepersj.com/Read Stephen's review of his exhibit https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/nick-leeper-sj-isnt-pissing-on-the?utm_source=publication-searchAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Help, I've lost my agency! w/ Luke Burgis 17.06.2026 51min

  Luke Burgis joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The One and the Ninety-Nine', the tribalism of the culture wars, internet Catholicism, the loss of agency, and Dorothy Day.Get a copy of his book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250373038/theoneandtheninetynine/And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Where my lesbians at? w/ Julie Bindel 04.06.2026 53min

  Julie Bindel joins the pod to discuss her book "Lesbians: Where are we now?", the gay man vs. lesbian rivalry, UK vs US cultural politics, TERFdom, conversion therapy, and more.Check out her work https://juliebindel.substack.com/And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Provocative Twinks & Horseshoe Links w/ Lucian Wintrich 21.05.2026 50min

  Lucian Wintrich joins the pod to talk about Twinks for Trump, his congressional campaign, the importance of engaging with rather than reacting against your ideological ops, & the excesses of contrarianism. Check out his page here https://wintrichfornewyork.com/And follow cracks in pomo here https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/
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  Nobody Reads Books Anymore w/ Book Club From Hell 07.05.2026 46min

  Jack from the Book Club From Hell pod joins us to discuss why he loves reading books so much, and his suggestions for people who want to get back into reading.Check out his pod here https://bookclubfromhell.substack.com/
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  It's ok to be [a lifter] 23.04.2026 51min

  Joe Enabnit and Jonah Howell attempt to convince Stephen that lifting is not morally reprehensible.Read Stephen's piece against lifting https://nopomo.substack.com/p/you-should-not-have-time-to-bulk And Joe's piece in favor of lifting https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/archetyping-at-the-gym Follow us on Substack ⁠https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/⁠ 
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  Real Men Are Pierced: Pasolini & the Manosphere w/ Eve Tushnet LIVE @ KGB 09.04.2026 1t 5min

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely to have noticed the discourse has been set abuzz with talk of a crisis of masculinity. While the debate is out on whether the real culprit is feminism, toxic masculinity, the Nanny State, or automation, men are indeed struggling to find themselves. The rates of loneliness, drug abuse, and suicide among men have reached record highs.In response, a proliferation of “manosphere” influencers has cropped up, selling a variety of remedies: Nietzschean vitalism, a return to the Bronze Age with a stoic regimen of powerlifting and renouncing seed oils, going to Latin Mass and finding yourself a tradwife. Gender norms, they tell us, have been muddied by the waters of relativism and so-called theories of performativity. Yet their vision of recovering real gender norms feels painfully superficial, even LARP-y.What is masculinity, at its core? And how can we—men and women—begin to recover what it means to embrace our embodiment, in all of its glory and fragility? Few would think to look to the example of Pier Paolo Pasolini—a queer, Marxist, lapsed-Catholic writer and filmmaker—for answers. But cracking through conventional thinking is kinda what we do best at cracks in pomo.Eve Tushnet joins Cracks in Pomo for a live discussion at KGB.
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  Zoomers, Boomers, & [Holy] Humor w/ Fr. James Martin SJ 25.03.2026 41min

  Father James Martin SJ joins the pod to discuss his new book ‘Work in Progress,’ polarization in the Catholic Church, trad zoomers, intergenerational dialogue, and his encounter with Camille Paglia. Follow us on Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/ Check out Fr. Martin's book https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/jamesmartin 
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  Technocracy Roundtable ft. Evelyn Quartz, Anton Cebalo, & Jeffery Tyler Syck 12.03.2026 54min

  Evelyn Quartz, Anton Cebalo, & Jeffery Tyler Syck join the pod to discuss the technocratic paradigm . Check out their work:https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/cp/186860518⁠ ⁠https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field-notes/technocracy-2-0/ https://www.persuasion.community/p/localism-not-nationalism-will-cure
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  Leo XIII, Subsidiarity, & Mondragon LIVE @ the Catholic Worker 27.02.2026 1t 22min

  Cracks in pomo presents our Friday night meeting at the CW on Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, the Mondragon workers' co-op, and how subsidiarity can help us transcend political polarization.
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  Would Marshall McLuhan have an X account? w/ Andrew McLuhan 13.02.2026 36min

  Andrew McLuhan joins the pod to discuss the current state of mass media and whether his grandfather [Marshall] would have an X account.Check out Andrew's Substack: https://mcluhan.substack.com/ And read João Ruy Faustino's piece in pomo on McLuhan https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/marshall-mcluhan-was-not-a-globalist
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  Should Women Be Working? LIVE from KGB 30.01.2026 1t

  Audrey Pollnow, Emilia Tanu-Chornay, and Bridget Ruffing shared their thoughts on being a woman in the post-girlboss era. Thanks to all who came out.
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  Deliver us from suburbia w/ Fr. Stephen Koeth 15.01.2026 48min

  Fr. Stephen Koeth joins the pod to discuss his book Crabgrass Catholicism, the suburbanization of American Catholicism, urban ethnic politics, and assimilation.Read Stephen's reviews in First Things and in ARC.https://firstthings.com/how-suburbia-reshaped-american-catholic-life/https://arcmag.org/the-sinful-suburbs/
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  Make America Baudrillardian Again w/ Mary Harrington 01.01.2026 54min

  Mary Harrington joins the pod to discuss Baudrillard's 1986 book America, NYC vs. LA vs. London, and Reagan's culture war.Subscribe to our Substack: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com