The best biography of Lenin
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
On his 155th birthday .. read more..
How to harass your servants with class
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Rich Russians learning etiquette .. read more..
What You Should Know
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Book, novels, films, news. 4/20/25. .. read more..
When the 1% actually writes about what it knows: "Quiet Street" by Nick McDonell
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Or how America’s 1% compares to Russia’s 1%… .. read more..
NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE!
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Talking about collapse and nihilism. 4/13/2025. .. read more..
Hollywood Refugee w/Joshua Turek
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
We talk to poet and stand-up comedian Joshua Turek about today’s cultural and political crisis and ways to deal with it. .. read more..
How will Americans deal with the disgrace that comes with decline?
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
lessons from another collapse .. read more..
The USA and USSR are one
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Evgenia and I were talking a bit and I was taking some notes for our event tonight in NYC and I ended up typing up a very basic outline of something we’ve been thinking about lately — the connection between the USA and the USSR. .. read more..
Hobbes in Russia. My favorite movies about girls during social collapse.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Weekend movie recs. .. read more..
Trump and Tariffs and Political Taboos w/Joe Costello
Thursday, April 10, 2025
We talk to our friend Joe Costello about Trump’s tariffs, democracy, deindustrialization, the Yeltsinification of America, and the innate human desire for a communal life… We discuss globalization, why being against it has been such a political taboo until Trump, and why these tariffs... .. read more..
Trump channeling the Yeltsin Mindset
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
There’s one more thing that reminds me of the Yeltsin Mindset in relation to Trump Beautiful Tariffs Plan: His belief in the beautiful power of the freemarket. .. read more..
Just two romantics — Ayn Rand and Joseph Stalin
Monday, April 7, 2025
Rand's Romantic Realism is the flipside of Stalin's Socialist Realism. .. read more..
The Shitocracy Doctrine
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Trump, Yeltsin, and degrowth .. read more..
Shitcoins for shitocracy w/Jacob Silverman
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Listen now | People compare Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin. .. read more..
The source of my morality
Monday, March 31, 2025
Looking at the source of my own morality. .. read more..
Sense and Senility
Friday, March 28, 2025
Yasha and I recently talked to Alexander Melamid, one of the few high priests of the art world who talks shit openly about it and got disenchanted with the cult of art long ago. .. read more..
Signal, the CIA's wokest deepest state chat app
Thursday, March 27, 2025
I know no one cares about opsec and privacy anymore, but bear with me…because I feel like I gotta comment on this given that I have such a long history with Signal and the whole gross, spooky world that underpins it. .. read more..
Nobody likes being a loser w/Will Menaker
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Evgenia and I talk to Will Menaker about the left-right whiplash of the post-Bernie years. .. read more..
Russian films about Soviet collapse
Friday, March 21, 2025
...made in the 1990s about the 1990s. .. read more..
Russians Against Politics
Friday, March 21, 2025
Since we’ve had a lot of new subscribers lately, I wanted to repost the very first podcast episode Evgenia and I recorded back in 2020. .. read more..