Last Born In The Wilderness
Patrick Farnsworth
A podcast about transitions, death, the ruptures of life in between.
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Aug 16, 2025 • 1h 1min
389 / Fascist Yoga / Stewart Home
Counterculture author and artist Stewart Home joined me in a discussion about his new book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, recently published by Pluto Press.
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Aug 13, 2025 • 7min
Preview / Fascist Yoga / Stewart Home
Counterculture author and artist Stewart Home joined me in a discussion about his new book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness, recently published by Pluto Books.
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Jul 29, 2025 • 1h 8min
388 / The Shifting Global Order / John Feffer
I am joined by returning guest John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus and author, to discuss the dramatic shifts and fissures in the global "rules-based order."
Since our last interview in March 2020, successive crises have challenged the underlying basis of international law and the coherence of the global economic system. Taking our previous interview into account—an examination of the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, situating it historically—I asked John to help us make sense of the first six months of the second Trump administration.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/john-feffer-3
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Jul 26, 2025 • 12min
Preview / The Shifting Global Order / John Feffer
I am joined by returning guest John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus and author, to discuss the dramatic shifts and fissures in the global "rules-based order."
// Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Jul 16, 2025 • 1h 5min
387 / Judaism of the Below / Amanda Gelender
Anti-zionist writer and agitator Amanda Gelender joins me to discuss what she describes as the Jewish community's widespread fascism problem.
I ask Amanda about her upbringing in a Jewish community and what role Zionism had in her perceptions of the State of Israel and Occupied Palestine, including stepping back from the question itself and interrogating the often unexamined contexts and built-in assumptions the question contains. We converse on how "Jewish feelings" are weaponized in the discourse on the Israel-US genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as an attempt to label any calls for its end and support for resistance to it as antisemitic. And lastly, another thread we pull on is the question of what fascism is and how, in our view, Zionism contained the seeds of fascism since its inception and nascent colonization efforts in Palestine.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/amanda-gelender
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Jul 11, 2025 • 10min
Preview / Judaism of the Below / Amanda Gelender
Anti-zionist writer and agitator Amanda Gelender joins me to discuss what she describes as the Jewish community's widespread fascism problem.
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Jul 4, 2025 • 1h 6min
386 / Humanity’s Final Chapter / Lyle Lewis
I’m joined by Lyle Lewis, former endangered species biologist and author of Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish. We discuss his decades long career working under the US Department of the Interior, and the various bureaucratic hurdles that stood in the way of protecting and preserving endangered species in the various roles he served there. Lewis holds a unique position, and describes why, and how, the human species will, in a relatively short time, face extinction.
// Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lyle-lewis
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Jul 2, 2025 • 9min
Preview / Humanity’s Final Chapter / Lyle Lewis
I’m joined by Lyle Lewis, former endangered species biologist and author of Racing to Extinction: Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish. We discuss his decades long career working under the US Department of the Interior, the various bureaucratic hurdles that stood in the way of protecting and preserving endangered species, and why Lewis holds a unique position to describe why, and how, the human species will, in a relatively short time, face extinction.
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May 20, 2025 • 1h 24min
385 / Viral Persistence / Long Covid Action Project
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like.
// Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lcap-activists-3
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May 15, 2025 • 10min
Preview / Viral Persistence / Long Covid Action Project
Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. They detail the evidence of how this virus persists in the body after infection, and how the HIV-AIDS epidemic is relevant to understanding what Long Covid is and what a comprehensive treatment and research agenda for it looks like.
// Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness


