Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Jen Pan , the author of Selling Social Justice (2025). Jen and I breakdown these topics further and speak candidly about our frustration with elite institutions. I also share one of the more ridiculous political horseshoe stories from my social media research… You can get access to the full catalog for Doomscroll and more by becoming a paid supporter...

My guest is Jen Pan, formerly a host of The Jacobin Show and a staff writer at the New Republic. She is the author of “Selling Social Justice” — out now from Verso Books. We discuss the DEI industry, the New Deal, American inequality and why the rich love anti-racism. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, Dissent, and Damage Magazine. You can get access to the full catalog for Doom...

My guest is Anthony Fantano. We dive deeper into the ethics of criticism, the role of politics in “good art” and the extractive economic model of Spotify. Where did subculture go after platforms took over the internet? You can get access to the full catalog for Doomscroll and more by becoming a paid supporter: www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

My guest is Anthony Fantano, a music critic and the voice behind The Needle Drop. We discuss the role of politics in art and music, his origins in the anti-war punk scene and the strange state of American counter-culture today. Music scenes used to serve as a gateway to anti-establishment politics. It was once common to find DIY anarchist zines at the local punk show. Now these political subcultur...

This is a subscriber’s only episode. Professor Chibber and I dive deep into the history of the left and explore its transformation over the course of the 20th century. After the cultural turn, the march through institutions, and our current media environment, we ask — where did things go wrong? You can get access to the full catalog for Doomscroll and more by becoming a paid supporter: www.patreon...

My guest is Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of Confronting Capitalism, The Class Matrix and Postcolonial Theory & the Specter of Capital. Chibber is the editor of Catalyst Journal and the host of the Confronting Capitalism podcast. We discuss the cultural turn, the rise of identity politics and the crisis of academia. Chibber is deeply committed...

This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Andrew Callaghan. We explore Andrew’s background in music and online subcultures, the ethics of publishing or "risk-for-harm", and his plans for the future of Channel 5 and more. Plus a few behind the scenes and personal stories that we could not include in the public version. You can get access to the full catalog for Doomscroll and more by becoming...

My guest is Andrew Callaghan, a documentary filmmaker and the host of Channel 5. He is the director of This Place Rules (2022) and Dear Kelly (2025), an in-depth portrait of a man he met at a ‘White Lives Matter' rally. We discuss the breakdown of consensus reality and how deplatforming can often lead to greater political extremism. Andrew describes his early origins in the anarchist movement and...

This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Ezra Klein. We discuss the emerging political faction known as Degrowth, the carbon crisis and the policy arc of the neoliberal period. You can get access to the full catalog for Doomscroll and more by becoming a paid supporter: www.patreon.com/joshuacitarella

I recently spoke with documentary filmmaker and host of Channel 5, Andrew Callaghan on Doomscroll #19 . In the episode, we discuss “Andrew’s Theory of Radicalization” which he outlines in the introduction of his new film Dear Kelly  (2025). Briefly summarized, Callaghan argues that political radicalization occurs when individuals lose access to three core needs: Security  — material safety such as...

My guest is Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist at the New York Times, the host of The Ezra Klein Show, and a co-founder of Vox Media. Klein is a co-author, along with Derek Thompson, of a new book titled Abundance . We discuss his promethean, energy-rich vision for the future, polarization in the attention economy and the end of the neoliberal consensus. The authors propose a policy platform for env...

This is a subscribers only episode. My guest is Adam Friedland. We discuss the ethics of platforming and the art of the talk show interview.

My guest is Adam Friedland, a stand up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of The Adam Friedland Show. We discuss the influence of alt-media, a farewell to Cumtown (RIP), the ideas & inspiration behind The Adam Friedland Show and his many social media controversies. How did comedians become recast as public intellectuals for the digital age? You can get access to the full catalog for Doomsc...

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Briahna Joy gray. We discuss irony politics, the alt-media to organization pipeline, and our shared admiration for Star Trek utopia.

My guest is Briahna Joy Gray, a lawyer, journalist and political commentator. She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast. We discuss the crisis of the Democratic party, online fact checkers vs. freedom of speech on social media, the mixed politics of populism and third parties in the USA.

I’ll be honest — I wasn’t going to publish this part but I’m just a huge JC Dentun  fan and this has got to be the some of the greatest 13 minutes of podcasting that absolutely blows my mind. Check out JC’s podcast: Pneumatic Materials .

Deep Research is a mini-series collaboration with Otherworld . In the final episode, Josh speaks to the researcher "JC Dentun" about the vast cosmology and beliefs of Robert Monroe and the circle of people around him that we learned about in Part 1. Jack writes: A big thank you to Joshua Citarella for going above and beyond with this series. He started exploring this many months ago, and quite fra...

My guest is Quinn Slobodian. We discuss the crisis of the 1970s and the 2020s. Of all the open theoretical debates, these periods are by far the most consequential. The analysis we take away from these periods will help determine whether neoliberalism was a project of class war (something that can be reversed) or an inevitable development within capitalism (a persistent feature that cannot be chan...

My guest is Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism". Neoliberalism is the most misused word in today's political discourse. In this episode we discuss the origins of the ideological movement. What is neoliberalism? When did it begin? How did it transform global politics?

In this episode, Josh talks to three individuals who have done the Gateway tapes Chelsea, DJ, and Charlie. This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld . In the next and final episode, Josh speaks to a researcher who uses the pseudonym "JC Dentun" to explore Monroe's vast cosmology of the astral realm.

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Will Menaker. We discuss “based populism”, the power of comedy in politics, and the realignment of counter-culture in America.

My guest is Will Menaker, a host of the ‪Chapo Trap House‬ podcast. We discuss the failures of working within the Democratic Party, the role of alternative media and a certain state in a certain part of the world. Can humor help us find truth within the online landscape?

Joshua Citarella begins his deep dive into the history and teachings of the Monroe Institute ("the worlds premiere organization for studying human consciousness"), starting with an expert interview with artist and acoustics expert Carmelo Pampillonio . This mini series is a collaboration with Otherworld . This is the first part of a three part series. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 coming soon.

This is a subscriber’s only episode. My guest is Dasha Nekrasova. We discuss Trump’s historic victory, counter elites, the class interest of precarious freelancers and the state of creative industries today.

My guest is Dasha Nekrasova, an actor, director and host of the Red Scare podcast. We discuss Trump’s historic win, Luigi Mangione and Dasha's political journey from a Bernie Sander’s supporter in 2016 to a Trump voter in 2024. What happens to political consensus when all narratives have now become alternative?