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TCWD Podcast: Take Up Arms
With the expansion of ICE and the flood of untrained, unprepared, un-uniformed officers on the street, things are likely to get confusing and…
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
3
TCWD Podcast: Touristification
It's summer, the time of year each nation flings its most obnoxious and provincial citizenry into the rest of the world on cruise ships and discount…
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
10
TCWD Podcast: The Antichrist Has Risen
Why is everyone so worried about the Antichrist again?
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
10

June 2025

Culture, Digested: Jane Austen Trad Wives
“I was born in the wrong century.”
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Jessa Crispin
5
Revolution and Ruin: Honore de Balzac's Lost Illusions
Come make your fortune in the creative economy
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Joseph Henderson
12
TCWD Podcast: The Corrosion of Character
America doesn't really make things.
 • 
Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
4
What is Wrong with Men Tour Dates
Hey, just alerting everyone that I’m starting my book tour for What is Wrong with Men this week.
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Jessa Crispin
5
Revolution and Ruin Book Club: George Sand's Indiana
Indiana is married to a brutish man who bullies and abuses her.
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Joseph Henderson
2
TCWD Podcast: A Lack of Vision
Greg Grandin, author of the new book America, América, said in an interview this week, “You don't beat fascists by calling fascists, fascists.
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Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
7
TCWD Podcast: Do I Have to Have Empathy for Men?
The day that Nico arrived in Colombia this week a presidential candidate was shot, reigniting old fears of perpetual chaos and instability.
 • 
Jessa Crispin
 and 
Nico Rodriguez
15

May 2025

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