In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTV

Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Dog Shirt TV newcomer Karen-Anna Eggen, a Norwegian expert on Russian influence operations, to talk about how Russia is exerting influence in Europe and the effects of Trumpist isolationism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Brian Rosenwald, an American political historian, to tell us about the history of talk radio and the Republican Party. Find Brian's book here: https://www.brianrosenwald.com/book Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katie Shmatsina, a Belarussian democracy activist, to talk about the situation in Belarus and the asylum process in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Lauren Buitta, founder of the nonprofit Girl Security, to talk about women in national security in the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about the Superbowl and how bad he thinks Trumpism is going to get. Holly Berkley Fletcher cohosts, and Anastasiia Lapatina shows off her baby. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Raluca Csernatoni, a European scholar, to discuss European responses to our developing techno-plutocratic hellscape. Alicia Wanless, Eve Gaumond, and Jonathan Rauch join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben announces the launch of a new podcast on the history of US-Ukraine relations, and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss how Trump is screwing around in South Africa and the Arctic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben discusses the barriers to US occupation of Gaza, Eve Gaumond discusses tariffs, and Shane Harris discusses the CIA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben talks about the resistance to Trump from within the FBI and welcomes Jonathan Rauch to talk about public responses to corrupt government. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Stephanie Carvin, a Canadian political scientist, to discuss Trump's newly imposed tariffs and their impact on, well, everything. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben takes a step back from our many crises and muses on the ethical obligations of career civil servants, to what extent presidential administrations actually get to set their own agendas, and other questions in the background of the current moment. Eve Gaumond and John Hawkinson weigh in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss how much Kash Patel sucks, the military situation in Eastern Congo, last night's plane crash, and anything else on their minds. John Hawkinson drops in to clarify the current status of US foreign aid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Jonathan Rauch to discuss his new book on the role of Christianity in American democracy. Find Jon's book here: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273540/cross-purposes/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anastasiia Lapatina and Steve Vladek to discuss Trump's impoundment of everything. Steve talks about the legal implications within the US and Anastasiia tells us about the consequences for civil society in Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Sarah McCammonn to discuss her new book, The Exvangelicals, and talk about the landscape of the evangelical community. Find the book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284471/theexvangelicals/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Kate Klonick and Margo Williams to talk about the migration from Tik Tok to Red Note and the dynamics of digital cultural exchange. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Sheila Wray Gregoire, an expert on sex and relationships in the evangelical community, to talk about how evangelical misogyny is hurting evangelical women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Roger Parloff to discuss Trump's pardons of the January 6th rioters and Biden's pardons of his family and associates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander to talk us through how Europe is viewing our collapsing democracy. Alicia Wanless joined in to give us a Canadian viewpoint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben celebrates our last show before Monday's apocalypse by rambling about bipartisanship, tariffs, assassinations in Canada, Aileen Cannon, and an old Finnish miner in Montana. Eve Gaumond, Alicia Wanless, Richard Wattenbarger, and Anna Bower join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Roger Parloff and Marty Lederman to discuss the Jack Smith report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss what Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearings have to teach us about the intersection between evangelical culture and porn culture. Spoiler alert: it's misogyny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Yael Eisenstat, former CIA analyst and current democracy activist, to tell us about her career speaking truth to tech oligarchs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben welcomes Holly Berkley Fletcher to tell us about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan: what's happening and why no one seems to care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless discuss how Trump would actually go about annexing Greenland and Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.