Next Comes What

Not everything will go wrong. Some thoughts for the New Year. Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/everything-won-t-go-wrong Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What: https://degenerateart.beehiiv. com/subscribe   Today's episode of Next Comes What is about finding holiday joy even in bleak times. In preparation for...

From years of teaching self defense and martial arts, some tips for difficult holiday conversations. Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/fighting-words Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What: https://degenerateart.beehiiv. com/subscribe Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/ podcast/next-comes-what/ id1779...

Defending immigrants from camps and chaos This week's episode traces the ties between immigrants and concentration camp history then turns to an immigration expert to discuss what Trump will do next. Andrea Pitzer dives into the past of a centuries-old law used to lock up foreigners in America—the very law Trump allies hope will expedite mass deportation. Then she talks about the situation on the...

People have organized in hard times before. There's almost always something that can be done. Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/going-to-roanoke Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What: https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/subscribe Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475 S...

Humor as a weapon in oppressive states. Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerateart.beehiiv. com/p/laughter-in-the-dark     Subscribe to Andrea Pitzer's Degenerate Art newsletter to support Next Comes What: https://degenerateart.beehiiv. com/subscribe     This episode looks at how humor works in resisting strongmen and the ways comedy might be a useful tool against the next adm...

Why propaganda works and how we fight it This episode looks at evil in the world and how the stories people hear shape their political thinking. Andrea Pitzer considers the horrors of governments running concentration camps, and her encounters with people who insist that one group of perpetrators is supremely evil in ways other humans could never be. From Germans to Russians, Palestinians to Israe...

In our second episode, we consider where we're headed with a rogue president in charge of a rogue state. We take a look back at how people stood up against torture after 9/11 and show how everyday Americans are already defying Trump allies this week. Andrea Pitzer returns to a longtime source, Mark Fallon, who was at one time NCIS chief of counterintelligence for Europe, Africa, and the Middle Eas...

From the moment election results started rolling in, people have been wondering how bad life will get during a second Trump Administration. A decade ago, Andrea Pitzer went around the world to talk to people who had survived authoritarian rule, in order to write the first comprehensive history of concentration camps, ONE LONG NIGHT.  In this first episode of Next Comes What, recorded three days af...