Last Born In The Wilderness

In this episode, I speak with musician, poet, anthropologist, educator, community organizer and public speaker Lyla June. This discussion with Lyla covers a variety of compelling subjects, including Lyla’s journey of connecting with not only her Indigenous Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) identity and ancestry, but also with her European lineage as well. In connecting with that neglect...

In this episode, I speak with eco-radical and guerrilla ontologist philosopher and writer Julian Langer. In this wide-ranging discussion, we discuss the middle-spaces of social engagement with technology and industrial infrastructure within an eco-pessimist perspective, Julian’s encounters with the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion and the mainstreaming of climate/environmental activism,...

In this episode, I speak with culture activist, teacher, author and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson. We discuss his most recent performative project Nights of Grief & Mystery, made in collaboration with “song and dance man” Gregory Hoskins—as documented in the recent short film Lost Nation Road, directed by Ian MacKenzie. After watching Ian MacKenzie’s short documentary film Lost Nation Road, I fi...

In my fourth interview with climate journalist and author Dahr Jamail, we discuss some of the most dramatic and recent examples of abrupt climate disruption in recent months, how these accelerating changes are manifesting across human communities and political institutions across the planet, and how these changes are forever altering the natural world as a whole through widespread species displace...

Documentary filmmaker Ian MacKenzie joined me to discuss his two most recent projects: Love School—an ongoing film project, made in collaboration with John Wolfstone and Julia Maryanska, that explores the revolutionary research village and healing biotope Tamera in Portugal; and Ian's recently released short film Lost Nation Road—which follows culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson and Cana...

I’m joined by Natalie Minoshka and Ínaru de la Fuente Díaz—on-the-ground activists and citizens of Puerto Rico and active participants in the massive protests that have swept the island for several weeks. They provide some background on the demands of these protests, including what incited them, the historic size and turnout of these demonstrations, and what we can expect in the coming weeks. This...

Lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk returns to the podcast to examine the United States legal system, particularly environmental law, and addresses the harsh realities communities around the US continuously face when it comes to protecting natural entities (lakes, rivers, forests, etc.) from ecologically destructive government and corporate projects. // Episode notes: https://www.l...

I am joined by Tania Li, Ph. D., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and the author of Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. In our era of globalized neoliberal capitalism, the emergence of capitalist economic and social relations among Indigenous communities is primarily examined as a result of overbearing external pressures, e.g., governments, nonprofit o...

This is a segment of episode #200 of Last Born In The Wilderness “We Live In The Orbit Of Beings Greater Than Us: A Weaving Of Threads.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBW200 / http://bit.ly/LBW200v Episode #200 is something of a highlight reel, featuring numerous segments from previous interviews I’ve conducted and released, with commentary on the underlying themes and threads that tie...

This is episode #200 of Last Born In The Wilderness. This is something of a highlight reel, featuring numerous segments from previous interviews I’ve conducted and released, with commentary on the underlying themes and threads that tie all this work together. This is a beast of an episode (almost four hours in length), so please take your time! This episode features segments of discussions with Si...

I speak with journalist John H. Richardson. Former writer-at-large for Esquire, John is the author of the captivating article Children of Ted: The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes, published December 2018 in New York Magazine. In Children of Ted, Richardson takes a deep dive into the world of Theodore Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) acolytes and apostates, a journey that documents his i...

I speak with Jasper Bernes, Managing Editor of Commune Magazine. We discuss his recent article, Between the Devil and the Green New Deal, featured in the second issue of Commune Magazine. In this interview, I asked Jasper Bernes to explain the details of the Green New Deal, as has been proposed by the more progressive wing of the United States political establishment and most famously by New York...

Writer, political theorist, and Gods & Radicals co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth returned to the podcast to discuss his soon-to-be-released book, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: A Pagan Guide to Marxism. We examine how capitalism directly informs the ways we relate with the land in which we live and the spirits that reside there, the bodies we inhabit, the labor we perform, the rituals we engage in, and...

I’m joined by Michael Sliwa, former co-host of Nature Bats Last and the author of Chasing A Different Carrot: A Manifesto For The Predicament Of Privilege, and RS, host of Moving Forward on the Progressive Radio Network. In this lively discussion, we examine the overwhelm many are feeling in trying to navigate through our times of overlapping social, economic, ecological, and political complexitie...

Psychedelic scholar, editor, publisher, and researcher Robert Forte returns to the podcast. For over three decades, he has collaborated with some of the most influential and well-known figures within the psychedelic movement, including R. Gordon Wasson, Timothy Leary, Stanislav Grof, and Alexander Shulgin, to name a few. As the use of psychedelics enters the public discourse again, and as we conti...

Environmental scientist and ecologist Dr. Francisco Sánchez-Bayo joined me for this episode. Dr. Sánchez-Bayo is the lead author of the scientific survey Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers, co-authored with Kris Wyckhuys, which reviews dozens of contemporary research studies from around the world, documenting the rapid decline of global insect populations, indicating tha...

Change strategist, complexity researcher, and cognitive scientist Joe Brewer returns to pick up from our first conversation last year, recorded right before he and his family moved to Costa Rica to engage more fully with cultural design work and planetary collapse management. Brewer details his work in designing in-depth courses that lay the groundwork for individuals to build regenerative hubs ac...

Physicist, engineer, and popular science communicator Paul Beckwith joined me for this episode. He is well known for his approachable and comprehensive analysis of the global climate crisis through his popular YouTube channel, where he provides a multidisciplinary examination into climate science data and research through his in-depth understanding of meteorology, oceanography, and the Earth scien...

Engineer and writer Dmitry Orlov returns to provide an overview of the ongoing collapse of the United States empire on the geopolitical, economic, and political fronts since our first interview was recorded and released last year.  As Dmitry Orlov explains in this interview, the United States is facing collapse. The nation carries massive debt and relies on its global military presence to maintain...

Birgitta Jónsdóttir—former Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist—joined me for the episode. She is the co-founder of the Pirate Party of Iceland, in which she served as a representative from 2013 to 2017, and collaborated with WikiLeaks in the production and release of the Collateral Murder video resulting from the courageous leak by whistleblower and former US Army private Chelsea M...

In this episode, I speak with Xabat, a representative of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. We discuss the ecological dimension of the Rojavan Revolution in Northeast Syria, represented and explored in the book Make Rojava Green Again, which examines the environmental perspective and ecological practices inherent in the egalitarian and anticapitalist revolution in the region. // Episode notes...

I speak with independent investigative journalist Cory Morningstar. We discuss her extensive six-act exposé, The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg—For Consent, published at Wrong Kind of Green, which examines the nonprofit industrial complex and its relationship with contemporary climate activism. Morningstar asserts youth climate activism and environmental activism in general have been co-opted by...

Meteorologist and geoscientist Nicholas Humphrey joined me to detail the record-breaking flood in the Midwest United States this season, its impacts on the agricultural center of the country, and how this event is directly tied to the dramatic global changes associated with abrupt climate disruption. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nicholas-humphrey // Sustain +...

Lawyer, grief therapist, and community builder Holly Truhlar joined me to discuss their provocatively titled essay, Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself. They address the ways mainstream psychology, as it is currently practiced today, largely lacks the framework, language, and tools to adequately counsel those coming into the growing awareness that the systems we are embedded within are leadin...

I speak with heathen writer and poet Ramon Elani, a frequent contributor at Gods & Radicals. In exploring his unique perspective on how to address the converging social, spiritual, and ecological crises on this planet, we examine three essays published for Gods & Radicals, which include Land, Home, and the Gods; World’s End; and Our Rage Against The Modern World, co-written with Gods & Radicals co...