The Unravelling 1: Defining The Enemy

Lunatic asylum. Loony bin. Madhouse. Mental healthcare institutions have a long and checkered history. Beginning in the 1960s, rising public sentiment against compulsory treatment led most to the closure of most state mental hospitals, throwing many desperate patients out of the ... Show More

Jocko and Darryl welcome Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points w/Krystal Ball, to discuss how the changes in the media environment have transformed the nature of American democracy. 

Jocko and Darryl discuss the different perspectives of the Israelis and Palestinians, and whether peace is possible. 

Thirty years ago, Timothy McVeigh was arrested and later executed for the deadliest act of domestic terror in American history. Margaret Roberts says most of what you think you know about the Oklahoma City bombing is a lie. (00:00) What Was the Oklahoma City Bombing? (05:59) The ... Show More

The fellas cut through the false media narrative of the McCarthy vs Cheney standoff, discuss lib COVID extremism, and play King of the Hill before welcoming J.D. Vance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

The power of the unions has always been a huge battleground for Labor and the Coalition.Now there are revelations about the role the former Prime Minister John Howard and his ministers really played in one of the biggest, most divisive industrial disputes in Australia’s history.  ... Show More

With the term ‘terrorism’ so frequently invoked in Western media coverage of Palestine, today’s episode of the Let’s Talk Palestine Podcast seeks to unpack and critically examine this loaded label.Conor Gearty KC, a professor of human rights law at LSE and a specialist in anti-te ... Show More

What happens to a country that fights war after war, year after year? The price goes far beyond the money spent and the lives lost overseas. In this candid and unflinching conversation, Scott Horton and Daryl Cooper dig into the less visible ways America’s global military machine ... Show More

Two professors from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada have published a book about how American popular culture reinforces militarism in the United States. In Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror (Lexington Books, 2010) G ... Show More

Author and Historian Matt Ehret joins me for a lively discussion from Aristotle's effect on modern bad historians to Aaron Burr's thrice failed attempts to undermine the American Revolution and why we should never, ever let the agents of the British aristocracy run around in the ... Show More

In this Friday news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss governor Kemp avoiding charges against Fani Willis, Houthis terrorism, two Navy seals lost off the coast of Somalia, rhetoric about Trump and the post-Iowa caucus game plans, Davos dignitaries talked to ... Show More