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Cracks in Postmodernity

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Subverting subversiveness through pretentious and ironic cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.

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  • October 28 · 1 hr 20 min

    Why go on living? Augustine, Simone Weil, & Martyrdom w/ Rose Lyddon

    Rose Lyddon joins the pod to discuss martyrdom, the desire to die, the death of academia, the future of Substack, Simone Weil, Augustine, & Teresa of Avila.Check out her Substack https://roselyddon.substack.com/Check out Stephen's work on wanting to die young https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/i-cant-stop-fantasizing-about-my and on Augustine & Teresa https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/the-sexual-personae-of-augustineFollow us at https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • October 14 · 54 min

    How Modernity Failed Our Cities: Islam, Architecture, & Belonging w/ Marwa al-Sabouni

    Marwa al-Sabouni joins the pod to discuss mosque architecture, urban design, the limits of modernism, and what the West gets wrong about Islam. Check out her book https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/mosque-an-architects-exploration-of-form-faith-and-meaning-hardcover And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • September 27 · 1 hr 30 min

    Make America Gay (NOT Queer) Again w/ Matthew Vines

    Matthew Vines joins the pod to discuss his NYTimes article about how queer theory is ruining everything for the gays. Check out his article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion/queer-gay-rights.html And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • August 27 · 1 hr 15 min

    Get Over It [Trigger Warning] Fragile Millennials! w/ Catherine Liu

    Catherine Liu joins the pod to talk about trauma scripts, AOC and other fragile millennials, Laschian narcissism, the identitarian co-opting of the Left, and how to get over yourself. Check out her new book ‘Traumatized’ https://www.versobooks.com/products/3263-traumatized?srsltid=AfmBOopbQa25m4AqVp8AJGGAEUOiQwk8D6B1dJbtl6cKPEPz6w4Wcc1M And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • August 13 · 1 hr 18 min

    Is an air-conditioned life worth living?

    Stephen joins Juan Martinez and Juan Merchan on El Matiz podcast to talk about the evils of air conditioning, Baudrillard's love (and my hate) of hyperreal America, Lorca’s Poems, Shakira, the terror of shopping malls, the Floridian hellscape, and Canadian cathedrals. For more, check out https://elmatizdifusion.substack.com/ https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/take-this-lorca-waltz https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/american-portals-reaching-the-alchemical https://www.theblaze.com/lifestyle/my-crusade-against-air-conditioning

  • July 30 · 53 min

    Orthobros Revisited w/ Steven Christoforou

    Steven Christoforou joins the pod to talk about Orthobros, internet Orthodoxy, Charles Taylor, cradle ethnic Orthodox, and other Orthodox things.Check out FOCUS https://focusnorthamerica.org/ And Steven's page https://stevenchristoforou.substack.com/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • July 16 · 49 min

    It's so hard being a white millennial male w/ Jacob Savage

    Jacob Savage joins the pod to discuss why it's so hard to be a white [passing] cisgender millennial male writer, and why you should feel bad for us. Jk. We discuss everything from DEI in publishing to our favorite dude writers. Check out is work here https://substack.com/@jacobksavage And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • July 1 · 1 hr 3 min

    You're being such a Jesuit w/ Nick Leeper SJ

    Nick Leeper SJ joins the pod to discuss his recent art exhibit, Andy Warhol, being a Jesuit, what constitutes sacrilege, and plays a round of "hot or not" with us. Check out his work https://www.nkleepersj.com/ Read Stephen's review of his exhibit https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/nick-leeper-sj-isnt-pissing-on-the?utm_source=publication-searchAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • June 17 · 51 min

    Help, I've lost my agency! w/ Luke Burgis

    Luke Burgis joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The One and the Ninety-Nine', the tribalism of the culture wars, internet Catholicism, the loss of agency, and Dorothy Day. Get a copy of his book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250373038/theoneandtheninetynine/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • June 4 · 53 min

    Where my lesbians at? w/ Julie Bindel

    Julie Bindel joins the pod to discuss her book "Lesbians: Where are we now?", the gay man vs. lesbian rivalry, UK vs US cultural politics, TERFdom, conversion therapy, and more. Check out her work https://juliebindel.substack.com/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • May 21 · 50 min

    Provocative Twinks & Horseshoe Links w/ Lucian Wintrich

    Lucian Wintrich joins the pod to talk about Twinks for Trump, his congressional campaign, the importance of engaging with rather than reacting against your ideological ops, & the excesses of contrarianism. Check out his page here https://wintrichfornewyork.com/ And follow cracks in pomo here https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

  • May 7 · 46 min

    Nobody Reads Books Anymore w/ Book Club From Hell

    Jack from the Book Club From Hell pod joins us to discuss why he loves reading books so much, and his suggestions for people who want to get back into reading. Check out his pod here https://bookclubfromhell.substack.com/

  • April 23 · 51 min

    It's ok to be [a lifter]

    Joe Enabnit and Jonah Howell attempt to convince Stephen that lifting is not morally reprehensible. Read Stephen's piece against lifting https://nopomo.substack.com/p/you-should-not-have-time-to-bulk And Joe's piece in favor of lifting https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/archetyping-at-the-gym Follow us on Substack ⁠https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/⁠

  • April 9 · 1 hr 5 min

    Real Men Are Pierced: Pasolini & the Manosphere w/ Eve Tushnet LIVE @ KGB

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely to have noticed the discourse has been set abuzz with talk of a crisis of masculinity. While the debate is out on whether the real culprit is feminism, toxic masculinity, the Nanny State, or automation, men are indeed struggling to find themselves. The rates of loneliness, drug abuse, and suicide among men have reached record highs. In response, a proliferation of “manosphere” influencers has cropped up, selling a variety of remedies: Nietzschean vitalism, a return to the Bronze Age with a stoic regimen of powerlifting and renouncing seed oils, going to Latin Mass and finding yourself a tradwife. Gender norms, they tell us, have been muddied by the waters of relativism and so-called theories of performativity. Yet their vision of recovering real gender norms feels painfully superficial, even LARP-y. What is masculinity, at its core? And how can we—men and women—begin to recover what it means to embrace our embodiment, in all of its glory and fragility? Few would think to look to the example of Pier Paolo Pasolini—a queer, Marxist, lapsed-Catholic writer and filmmaker—for answers. But cracking through conventional thinking is kinda what we do best at cracks in pomo. Eve Tushnet joins Cracks in Pomo for a live discussion at KGB.

  • March 25 · 41 min

    Zoomers, Boomers, & [Holy] Humor w/ Fr. James Martin SJ

    Father James Martin SJ joins the pod to discuss his new book ‘Work in Progress,’ polarization in the Catholic Church, trad zoomers, intergenerational dialogue, and his encounter with Camille Paglia. Follow us on Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/ Check out Fr. Martin's book https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/jamesmartin

  • March 12 · 54 min

    Technocracy Roundtable ft. Evelyn Quartz, Anton Cebalo, & Jeffery Tyler Syck

    Evelyn Quartz, Anton Cebalo, & Jeffery Tyler Syck join the pod to discuss the technocratic paradigm . Check out their work:https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/cp/186860518⁠ ⁠https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field-notes/technocracy-2-0/ https://www.persuasion.community/p/localism-not-nationalism-will-cure

  • February 13 · 36 min

    Would Marshall McLuhan have an X account? w/ Andrew McLuhan

    Andrew McLuhan joins the pod to discuss the current state of mass media and whether his grandfather [Marshall] would have an X account. Check out Andrew's Substack: https://mcluhan.substack.com/ And read João Ruy Faustino's piece in pomo on McLuhan https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/marshall-mcluhan-was-not-a-globalist

  • January 30 · 1 hr

    Should Women Be Working? LIVE from KGB

    Audrey Pollnow, Emilia Tanu-Chornay, and Bridget Ruffing shared their thoughts on being a woman in the post-girlboss era. Thanks to all who came out.

  • January 15 · 48 min

    Deliver us from suburbia w/ Fr. Stephen Koeth

    Fr. Stephen Koeth joins the pod to discuss his book Crabgrass Catholicism, the suburbanization of American Catholicism, urban ethnic politics, and assimilation. Read Stephen's reviews in First Things and in ARC. https://firstthings.com/how-suburbia-reshaped-american-catholic-life/ https://arcmag.org/the-sinful-suburbs/

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