Last Born In The Wilderness

I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought bac...

I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought bac...

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. We begin by discussing the theme of Kollibri’s essay, Stop Insulting Animals: We must own our own culture and selves, a piece that addresses how we speak about animals—the bad metaphors, clumsy euphemisms, and casual degradations of mo...

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. They’re the author of several books on the intersections of ecology and human society, and they write for the newsletter, Speaking for the Trees (no matter where they’re from). // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https:...

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Complicit Lens is a meticulously documented, searing indictment of the US legacy media’s direct complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Andersen identifie...

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial puri...

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial puri...

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. Furthermore, Byrne elucidates how AI systems are being used in the now weeks-long US-Israel war on...

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

For episode 400 of Last Born In The Wilderness, Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them. // Episode notes + transcript:...

Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them.  // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/l...

I'm joined by Dr. Špela Šalamon, Nuclear Medicine Specialist Physician and biomedical scientist. She has contributed to global efforts in understanding and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 and published several papers addressing the risks following COVID-19 infections, emphasizing the necessity for proactive health measures. In October of last year, she co-authored and published the AJPM Focus r...

Dr. Špela Šalamon joined me to provide an evidence-based comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, based on a review she co-authored and published for AJPM Focus: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/epi...

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.co...

Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler-colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/omar...

Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon...

Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation. Eli Cahan takes the time to speak to his dual position as a pediatrician and investigative journalist and how they intersect. He takes us...

Investigative journalist and pediatrician Eli Cahan joined me to discuss the magnitude of the long Covid crisis in the youth population of the United States, addressed in his October Rolling Stone piece, Long Covid Is Real—And It’s Changing an Entire Generation. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books. Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgo...

Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books. Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgo...

I speak to the enormously successful campaign of Zorhan Mamdani, his charisma, the very practical policy goals set by his run for mayor of New York City, and how you will be disappointed. "I just want to be really transparent and honest about the fact that I, too, feel many of the feelings that people have about this, while also having this other part of myself, which I don't want to describe as p...

Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster. In line with the book’s title, we discuss the making and the meaning of Luigi Mangione, currently on trial for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In his full book treatment of the case, Richardson follows the breadcrumbs Mangione...

Author and journalist John H. Richardson joins me to ruminate on his new book, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, published by Simon & Schuster. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness