Essay Questions

Essay Questions

24 episodes

Essay Questions is the podcast in which your hosts, Joe & Josh, read an essay that's interesting to them and/or of historical importance, and then talk about it. Pretty simple, right? Well, we like to think we're using these essays as a starting point for conversations that end up going in strange and surprising directions. Nothing makes us happier than dragging luminaries like Mencken, Orwell, Adorno, and Didion into our own long-standing obsessions with conspiracy theories, the National Security State, media consolidation, high and low culture, and the meaning and purpose of religion. But this isn't a seminar, and we're not scholars or experts. Joe is a comic, Josh is a writer, and for them, this is just fun. So if you love to read but feel like you don't do enough of it, and you think you might enjoy hearing two ordinary guys shoot the s*** about things other than sports, politics, or pop culture, this is the podcast for you. Each episode, we choose a reading that's publicly available and encourage all our listeners to read it beforehand so you can follow along with our conversation. And of course, you can also always contact us with your thoughts, too!

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Who Went Nazi... And Who Will?

Published: April 30, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 37 seconds

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Virtue Shaming

Published: April 23, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 8 seconds

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Nationalist Born Killer

Published: April 16, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Wild Broodmares Cant Be Broken

Published: April 9, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 2 seconds

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Gaslighting Chambers

Published: April 2, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 18 seconds

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Dearth of a Nation

Published: March 26, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 58 seconds

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(((Mrs. Enoch)))

Published: March 19, 2018, 8:33 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 36 seconds

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Ethno-Statesman

Published: March 12, 2018, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 25 seconds

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Mansplaining the Manosphere

Published: March 5, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 10 seconds

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Mad as Hell, and Taking it to the Internet

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 49 seconds

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Paleo Purity Diet

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 8 seconds

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A Normies Guide to Season 2

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Season One: Wrap-Up

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 46 seconds

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Andrew O'Hagan: Who's the Alpha Male Now, Bitches?

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 8 seconds

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Richard Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 25 seconds

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Dwight McDonald: Masscult & Midcult

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 12 seconds

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Clement Greenberg: Avant Garde and Kitsch

Published: Nov. 13, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 11 seconds

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Seymour Hersh: The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Norman Mailer: The White Negro

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 2 seconds

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H.L. Mencken: Hills of Zion

Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 2 seconds

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Theodor Adorno: Free Time

Published: Oct. 16, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 16 seconds

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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 35 seconds

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Sam Harris: Thinking About Good and Evil

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 seconds

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Welcome Episode

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds

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