What's Left?

Oliver is joined by Ralph Moffettone, writer and director Delenda (2018), to discuss the work of filmmaking, the real purpose of prestige television, and why streaming services don't care if you're really paying attention. To listen to the full 2 hr episode, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft

To listen to the full 2 hr episode, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft Aimee is joined by journalist Alex Rubinstein to discuss his article on the weaponization of wokeness, the American empire under Biden, abolishing the police, and more. Alex's article: https://realalexrubi.substack.com/p/intersectional-imperialism-a-wholesome

Aimee is joined by the great @htmlmencken for a 3.5 hr conversation about disciplinary woke culture, its recent history, and its uses. To listen to the full conversation, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft

Aimee and Oliver are joined by Michael Lind to discuss his analysis in The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite. They talk the educational divide, the geography of class, the function of NGOs, and much more. To listen to the full 90 min episode, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft

Aimee and Oliver are joined by Helen Andrews to discuss her new book, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. They touch on the six sketches in the book, from Camille Paglia and Sonya Sotomayor to Aaron Sorkin and Al Sharpton, the influence of boomer politics, and why boomers think The Beatles and Bob Dylan are as important as Beethoven. To listen to the full 90 min episode, become a patron at patreon.com/whatsleft

Aimee and Oliver are joined by professor and author Joel Kotkin to discuss his work, the characteristics of neo-feudalism and its class structure, and to offer some hope for the future.

Aimee and Oliver discuss the deeper implications of the "cancellation" of NJ Robinson. Suggested reading: NJR, "How the Media Cracks Down on Critics of Israel," https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-the-media-cracks-down-on-critics-of-israel NJR, "Why We All Hate Bari Weiss So Much," https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/why-we-all-hate-bari-weiss-so-much Bateman, "Hall Monitors Doing the Work," https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/hall-monitors-doing-the-work Bateman, "Solidarity, Just for Me," https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/solidarity-just-for-me

Oliver offers predictions on the upcoming Overeem-Volkov UFC Fight Night and Aimee discusses the week in takes. Suggested reading "The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/ "The Marxist Wall Street couldn't ignore," https://www.salon.com/1998/12/22/21feature_2/ "Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments," https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0

Aimee and Red Scare's Anna K #TurnUp for a special Saturday night stream about AOC, emotivism, and much more!

In this 150-minute episode, Aimee takes the time to lay out a number of points in considerable detail and correct ongoing misrepresentations of her work, the work of the podcast, and so forth, covering everything from the misuse of the term "PMC" to uncharitable interpretations of simple and concise claims that became the subject of "Aimee, the Spectre Haunting Twitter" drama. Oliver notes that much ostensible "commentary" about the show seems to assume it is a one-person operation rooted in Aimee's 2019 tweets - to the extent that he and Studebaker are often confused with each other or treated as a single entity, and guests are assumed to be one of us - and he is sometimes even told that he'd enjoy listening to What's Left? Suggested reading Rosa Luxemburg on anarchism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/ch01.ht And Georgi Plekhanov on anarchism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1895/anarch/index.htm

In this irreverent episode, Bog Beef and Oliver talk NBA defense, gyno, growth hormone-induced pectoral spread, Butterbean, Pride, the upcoming Overeem/Volkov fight night, John Tenta's singlet, and much more. Suggested reading Bateman, "Lifting Weights and Going on Dates," https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/25/lifting-weights-and-going-on-dates/ "Butterbean Hasn't Gone Anywhere," https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/butterbean-hasnt-gone-anywhere-you-just-havent-been-looking-hard-enough "Steroid Solidarity," https://www.vqronline.org/reporting-articles/2017/07/steroid-solidarity "Road Warrior Animal was the Future of Wrestling," https://www.theringer.com/2020/9/25/21454369/road-warriors-animal-joe-laurinaitis-wrestling-wwf-wcw

Our latest episode features Bog Beef, Jeff, Leila, Oliver, and Aimee talking about Aimee's latest Twitch departure, Zoom vs. in-class education, and much more. Four hours of fun! Suggested reading Jacques Hyzagi, "Robert Crumb is Dead --to Me," https://observer.com/2016/04/robert-crumb-is-dead/ "Robert Crumb Hates You," https://observer.com/2015/10/robert-crumb-hates-you/ Oliver Bateman's school finance litigation dissertation (trigger warning: boring), http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/11865/

Aimee, Jeff, Monsieur le Baron, and Oliver talk about big developments with the stonks as well as the limits of irony-bro humor. Suggested reading "Reddit's Favorite Stocks That Aren't GameStop," https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackberry-amc-and-other-reddit-yolo-favorites-that-arent-gamestop-11611681716 (paywall) "A Fight Over GameStop's Soaring Stock Turns Ugly," https://www.wired.com/story/gamestop-stock-wall-street-bets-short-squeeze/

Aimee, Oliver, and Geoff situate the seemingly memory-holed "Jacobinghazi" event of 2014 in its historical context: The New York Times GamerGate retrospective (2019),  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/15/opinion/gamergate-zoe-quinn.html  Amber Frost, "Bro Bash" in Jacobin (2014), https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/06/bro-bash/  Paul Krugman, "Bernie is Becoming a Bro" in The New York Times (2016), https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/opinion/sanders-over-the-edge.html  Arthur Chu, "Your Princess is in Another Castle" in The Daily Beast (2014), https://www.thedailybeast.com/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds-1  Alana Massey, "Against Chill" in Matter (2015), https://medium.com/matter/against-chill-930dfb60a577  "Jacobinghazi" retrospective imgur, https://imgur.com/a/nUX1A

Aimee, Oliver, and special guest Geoff Shullenberger team up to discuss Peter Turchin, UFC 257, Nike, "nerds vs. jocks," Twitter without Trump, Biden's Shinola watch, Josh Hawley, and much more. Suggested Reading: "Jocks Rule, Nerds Drool" in The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/nerds-lebron-james-elon-musk.html Bateman, "Jocks vs. Nerds" in Splice Today, https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/jocks-vs-nerds