Highlights
Some of the best episodes and most ambitious episodes from the Darts and Letters archive.
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EP68: Science Against the People (ft. Charles Schwartz & Sigrid Schmalzer)
The right attacks science, liberals uncritically defend it. But there are other ways to see scientific authority. Scientists have always served capitalism, patriarchy, and empire. So say Science for the People, a radical movement of scientists. So, they are fighting to change it. We tell the story of the groups Vietnam-era origins, and explore why it's having a resurgence today.Listen now -
EP64: Technocracy Now!, part 1 (ft. Noam Chomsky)
Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. It appeals across the ideological spectrum, and it is perhaps an idea as old as politics itself. We begin the first of three-part series telling stories of technocracies past, present, and future.Listen now -
EP59: January 6th and the Myth of the Mob (ft. James Jasper and Joy Rohde)
Scholars used discredited crowd theory to explain the events of January 6ths. These are straight from the physician Gustave Le Bon, a bigot who hated the masses. Is it OK to apply reactionary ideas to reactionary movements, out of political expediency? We think no.Listen now -
EP57: Truck Nuts (ft. Matt Christman, Shane Hamilton, Chase Barber, Justin Martin, & Gabrielle Esperdy)
The pickup truck is the symbol of rural conservative masculinity. So, it often takes centre stage in the tired culture wars between reactionary neo-populists and liberal moralists.Listen now -
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-scarcity, Afrofuturism, and feminist speculative fiction as we set our phasers to fun and go where no podcast has gone before.Listen now