The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

This Week! We take a look at a group responsible for hours upon hours of CourtTV programming if nothing else of value, Sovereign Citizens, as well as their progenitors, the tax protester movement. These groups emerge from a common core of anger at taxes and hatred of government. If you’ve heard of sovereign citizens its probably from sarcastic “gold fringe on the flag” jokes or mentions of admiral...

This Week! We break down the first half of chapter 4 of Mark Levin’s book American Marxism, titled “Racism, Genderism, and Marxism. In this chapter, other than continuing his trend of block quoting people more intelligent and well thought than him and following it by screaming “communism” into the void. In this chapter he attempts, ad fails, to lead the reader through Critical Theory, a philosophi...

This week! We begin our deep dive into the fetid waters of the fringe center of the republican party with the first episode proper of our “Lunatic Fringe” series. The thesis of this series which will take the coming months if not the majority of the year, is that there is little if any true daylight between the “far right” as we would term them. Part of getting to this point was a concerted strate...

This week we finally return to our review of American Marxism by Mark Levin, a man we can only assume is still angry he was never given a pony to kill. In this second half of chapter three we learn mostly how staggeringly and completely lazy Levin was in writing this book. In all absolute honesty, and with complete disclosure that I do not have the time to sit and count words, Levin appears to hav...

This Week we finally, at long last, without delay, and with all expedience, begin our long awaited, but much delayed episode on Ron Paul, and the beginning of our deep dive into the weird, wild, and wacky world of the far right fringe. While their position on the extreme right of any objective political spectrum may obscure it, these people have truly become the core of the modern conservative mov...

This Week!   Benedict managed to find a way to ruin everything once again. Due to a scheduling issue (Benedict's Fault) we had to do an emergency record on the day last week's episode was released which means we were unable to stick to our planned schedule of recording the next episode of American Marxism for this week. Despite that, we managed to put together what I think is a fun episode. We lis...

This Week!   We finish off our review of "Ladies First" the MAGA Hat Romance novel by Liberty Adams, in which nobody gets finished off. We are joined once again in our suffering by Morgan Stringer of Opening Arguments, Humans Holler at News, and her always great Twitter feed @MOstring   Thanks as Always for Listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silverma...

This Week!   Kevin spills the goods! By which I mean that he spends 25 minutes explaining how he triumphantly, (and we can all agree sexily) escaped the far right ideology of his youth to become a rational reasonable human being. And then we read some Mark Levin or something, who knows.   Thanks as always for listening, enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silverman...

This Week! We take a walk on the wild side, stray from the beaten path, and disappoint our ancestors by taking a dive into our first ever fiction book "Ladies First" book one of the MAGA hat romance series by "Liberty Adams." We are joined in our suffering this week by Morgan Stringer who you can catch on the Opening Arguments Podcast, The Humans Holler at News Podcast, and on Twitter @MoString. T...

This Week! We get deeper into scary shouter Mark Levin's volume of self-citation, American Marxism, with chapter 2, "Breeding Mobs" where he tells us how much we on the left love Hegel and unknown sociology compilations from the 90s. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We finally make tentative, halting steps towards our long planned deep dive into the world of libertarian weirdos by taking a look at the "think tank" started by one of the movement's leading losers, Ron Paul, who is most definitely not your friend.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week!   We finally begin what might be the best book we've read (by our incredibly low standards) in quite a while. Cracking the cover on this beauty was like the first sip of an ice cold coke fresh from the fridge, the first slice of hot pizza, cigarettes after sex, feeding all of the addictions we've been in withdrawal for at once. In American Marxism we've finally found the kind of abject...

This Week!   We take a look at two incredibly important figures in the history of conservative thought, Barry Goldwater, and Catholic Fascist L. Brent Bozell Jr. Together, one of these two wrote the central guiding tome of Conservative thought, and the other said it was ok tpo put his name on it, and soon you can hear us read it as our new patron only book review of The Conscience of a Conservativ...

This Week!   We begin our next book review of Mark Levin's "American Marxism" a book so thoroughly researched and comprehensive that the first few hundred thousand copies went out with allegations that a mysterious "Franklin School" was responsible for Herbert Marcuse and all of that "Cultural Marxism" they're slipping in in-between the CRT. Levin may be one of the angriest, and certainly the scar...

This Week! We are all not Witches! Because of Kevin's busy schedule we took the time to take a look at a political figure who probably otherwise would only ever be remembered as a one-liner from a halfway decent episode of SNL, Christine O'Donnell, a perrennial Senate Candidate in Delaware best known for losing to Joe Biden in 2008 and not being a witch. Thank you all for listening and enjoy the s...

This week! We finally got to the end of the terrible awful, no good very bad book that is William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale: the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, and boy are we glad to be done with this sad excuse for a classic of conservatism.  Thank you all as always for listening and enjoy the show! Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week! We reach an incredible, but ultimately we recognize unimportant milestone of 100 Episodes!!! Thanks to all the listeners and patrons who have stuck with us through all the inane ramblings of conspiracists and zealots on our little quest.   This week we took a look at a man who might be the single most important figure in right wing thought until 2015, W. Cleon Skousen, the man who gave...

This Week!   We finally get to the penultimate episode of our review of God and Man at Yale. the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, by William F. Buckley Jr. What have we learned in 170 pages? Not a god damn thing because this is just a 25 year old complaining about his college.   If you would like to look at the posters from the American Social Hygiene Association you can find them at: https://so...

This Week!   We jump back into our dumbest member of congress rundown to take a look at someone who is best epitomized by the phrase "Platonic Runner Up" Lauren Opal Boebert, representative of Colorado's Third Congressional District. Her illustrious business career involves going from giving people food poisoning to dozens as a manager at McDonalds, to giving food poisoning to dozens of people as...

This Week!   We finally begin to near the end of this nightmarishly bad 200 page anti-communist screed "God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom" by William F. Buckley. Oh god... we still have 3 more episodes of this book at minimum... make it stop... please make it stop.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.sil...

This week!   What can I say, we felt like we deserve a treat. And for us that means diving back into the wild wacky world of Prager U where the happiness can be found for a nickel and some gumption. We hope that all of you enjoy the holidays and have a happy new year.   Thanks as always for listening!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   Fire the Holiday Cannons! I need a dozen red Starbucks cup launchers on the Southeast ridge WHERE THE HELL ARE MY PLATOON BLACK SANTAS!! That's right, the war on Christmas is here, and you're liable to be a casualty of it too whether its from a Christmas play that doesn't mention Jesus or the nativity scene at the local courthouse sharing space with a Menorah. In our special holiday e...

This Week!   We read chapter 3 of William F Buckley's sad excuse for a polemic, "God and Man at Yale the Superstitions of Academic Freedom" and once again we find ourselves wishing we had the heart to follow the guide of Oedipus because at this point that outcome would be preferable.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silverman...

This Week!   We take a look at a "think tank" dedicated to the memory of a fascist pseudo economist, and the libertarians (who else) that love him. That's right, this week we took a dive into the Von Mises Institute, as well as the personal bigotries of two of its founders, Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell. This episode has it all, Ron Paul! Racist Newsletters! Demanding the right to call dogmatic...

This Week!   We get even deeper into the exhausting slog that is a recent graduate complaining about teachers he didn't like, which has all the makings of a Charlie Kirk except that Buckley actually graduated college. That's right, this week we finish chapter 2 of Willie Frank Buckley's "God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom" where Billy complains about intro to economics cour...