Cracks in Postmodernity

Episódios

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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 1h 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 1h 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 1h 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 1h

  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
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  Free Speech: Endangered, Dangerous, or Overrated? Live in DC w/ Mana Afsari & Shadi Hamid 18.12.2025 1h 11min

  Amidst the enforcement of speech codes, reactionary backlash, and an uptick in political violence, debates about the future of the First Amendment have taken center stage. Various ideological factions have emerged, emphasizing the need for speech to be free, ethical, or true. But what of the need for speech that is meaningful, that inspires profound thought and contributes concretely to the common good, and that is—in the least—genuinely interesting?As a platform dedicated to rising above the discord in today’s divisive, self-serious discourse by prioritizing matters that transcend the merely ideological, Cracks in Postmodernity has highlighted Mana Afsari's writings about her encounters with the “sensitive young men” drawn to MAGA, which shed light on those who are fed up with groupthink and conformism, and who are in search of a space for intellectual vitality; and Shadi Hamid’s frankness about his shifting attitude toward the American project, from his outright skepticism toward attempts to import the glories of American liberalism abroad, to his more recent embrace—albeit a measured one—of American dominance as “the world’s best hope.”Shadi and Mana joined us on 12/11 for our first-ever event in Washington DC to discuss the future of American public discourse.
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  Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual w/ Pierre & Amir 04.12.2025 1h 9min

  Pierre d'Alancaisez and Amir Naaman join the pod to discuss their new book Inversion, gay narcissism, victimhood, Queers for Palestine, and more.Purchase Inversion here: https://verdur.in/inversion/ And read an excerpt of Stephen's chapter here: https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-gay-identity-trumped-gay-sex/ Subscribe to our Substack: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com
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  The Technocratic Trap w/ Evelyn Quartz 20.11.2025 39min

  Evelyn Quartz joins the pod to discuss #Resistance politics, Trump & Zohran's false populism, Charlie Kirk, No Kings, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lina Khan.Check out Evelyn's article in Cracks in PoMohttps://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/c And check out her Substack https://quartzevelyn.substack.com/ Subscribe to our Substack: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com
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  Everything's turning to sh*t w/ Cory Doctorow 06.11.2025 42min

  Cory Doctorow joins the pod to discuss his book 'Enshittification,' anti-trust policy, Lina Khan, and buying local.Check out our other content on 'Enshittification' https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/everything-is-crap-and-its-only-gettinghttps://nopomo.substack.com/p/the-lina-khan-horseshoe Subscribe to our Substack: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com
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  College: Who needs it? 24.10.2025 1h 2min

  Hollis Robbins joins the pod to discuss the future of higher ed, the impact of AI, and her love for Ayn Rand.Follow Hollis on Substack https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/And read our pieces on the future of higher edhttps://www.compactmag.com/contributor/hollis/https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/dont-send-your-kids-to-collegeSubscribe to our Substack: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com