Institutionalized

Charles and Aaron sit down with Susannah Luthi to discuss the trials and tribulations of legacy mediaRecommendations:Why the Media is Honest and Good by Richard HananiaAnd the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts**Munk Debate - Mainstream Media ft. Douglas Murray, Matt Taibbi, Malcolm Gladwell, Michelle Goldberg

Charles and Aaron sit down with Charles Lane to discuss the political and moral implications of the death penaltyRecommendations:Dead Man Walking MovieThe Death Penalty an American History by Stuart BannerStay of Execution: Saving the Death Penalty from Itself by Charles LaneAmong the Lowest of the Dead: The Culture of Capital Punishment (Law, Meaning, And Violence) by David Von DrehleQuestions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

Charles and Aaron sit down with John Hirschauer to discuss the history of mental institutions and the implications of deinstitutionalization.Recommendations:Flowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesDiscipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel FoucaultThe Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller TorreyQuestions? Comments? Email us at institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

Charles and Aaron sit down with Ethan Strauss to discuss wokeness in professional sports.Recommendations:The Decline and Fall of NASCAR by Wells KingWanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke BurgisEthan Strauss on SubstackQuestions? Comments? Email us at institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

On today’s episode we are sitting down with Peter Robinson to discuss Long Covid and the internet’s role in spreading it.Recommendations: Better Call Saul Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters Hystories by Elaine Showalter 

This week we sit down with Richard Reeves to discuss how American institutions have been rigged against men.Recommendations:The SopranosMen Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis by Nicholas EberstadtDream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard ReevesSAS Rogue HerosThe Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men by Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin and Robert FrancisQuestions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@nebulouspodcasts.com

This week we sit down with freelance journalist Alexander Raikin to discuss Canada's controversial Medical Assistance in Dying program.Recommendations:Deep Places by Ross DouthatDehumanization Triumphant by Leon KassBy Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich by Hugh Gallagher

Shadi Hamid joins us this week to discuss to discuss the tension between liberalism and democracy.Recommendations:Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World by Shadi HamidRoss Douthat: What medically assisted suicide has done to CanadaShadi Hamid on SubstackZelots at the Gate PodcastThe Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew March

David Yermack joins us this week to talk about the uses and abuses of cryptocurrency.Recommendations:Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself by Kelsey PiperMoney Stuff Newsletter by Matt LevineQuestions? Comments? Email us at Institutionalized@NebulousPodcasts.com

This week, we talk to Joe Lonsdale about what is driving the mass exodus of businesses and residents from the Golden State.Recommendations:Houston Livestock Show and RodeoCalifornia Legoland