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Mar 4, 2026
Mar 4, 2026
1hr 59 min
Get Rustin's Challenge from Damage Magazine here: https://damagemag.com/2025/07/24/rustins-challenge/
There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists today valorize Rustin on the basis of his multiple oppressed identities and civil rights organizing. On the other hand, many others dismiss him for being compromised by his commitment to the Democratic Party or by his deep suspicion of the new forms of left activism that appeared in the mid-1960s.
While Rustin certainly made some strategic mis-steps later in life, his challenges to the New Left, Black Power, and a regressing liberal establishment from 1964 until his passing in 1987 were insightful, cutting, and often quite prescient. At a time when the Left is in dire need of self-reflection and reorientation, Rustin’s work has gained a new relevance and urgency.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Mar 3, 2026
Mar 3, 2026
1hr 24 min
The city of Chicago doesn't want to finance a new stadium for the Bears. Will they move to neighboring Indiana or Iowa instead?
We'll discuss.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Mar 2, 2026
Mar 2, 2026
1hr 5 min
J. is joined by professor and historian Cedric Johnson to discuss the visually poetic 1977 masterpiece, "Killer of
Sheep" followed by a screening for patrons and paid Youtube subscribers!
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 27, 2026
Feb 27, 2026
1hr 9 min
Read Jason's essay on the Last Dragon here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/the-insomnia-of-nostalgia-on-berry.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawQLdJ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJyYVpMUTlWYmo4aXZCNlk2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjJVlNXQLM3uDkgfIqAfQTzZVCAdhwPh6_OedQsl8Vnmv_lGTFeDxBG50_AG_aem_A6fyyClyPkbhWQtJBCbzyw
The two Jason's battle it out over the Motown classic, "THE LAST DRAGON".
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 26, 2026
Feb 26, 2026
49 min
READ EVELINA'S ARTICLE IN JACOBIN HERE: https://jacobin.com/2026/01/birth-rates-children-pronatalism-gender?fbclid=IwY2xjawQKndtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJWZTNiYW9FS21sOUxWT3RXc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHia0kX_t5tdZE7S92zJhMpKAnSPg6Meo6yMDcxB6ZMkg1Fs3x6mu9JZRf04P_aem_xjDp8eLRvImgXKjZ-ZJXtg
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 25, 2026
Feb 25, 2026
2hr 11 min
Read Jason's response to UnHerd Magazine's "Woke 2.0" here: https://open.substack.com/pub/jmylesoftir/p/the-crisis-papers-issue-15-even-though?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
There has been no contemporary slang term more misused than woke. It means everything and nothing all at once. It’s a term whose vagueness is its political utility.
Woke has become shorthand for “liberal outrage” and identity politics. I am not, and have never been a fan of woke in that sense. But, the term has been applied to so many different things that when someone starts complaining about wokeness, you have to guess what they mean.
Pronouns? Bathrooms? Civil Rights?
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
1hr 44 min
You can read Adolph's book on Jesse Jackson here: https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Jackson.../dp/0300035527
How did Jesse Jackson – who had never run in an election and had only recently registered to vote – become the black candidate for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination? What does his campaign show about the dynamics that drive Afro-American political activity? What is the true political legacy for the man that trained under King and had Al Sharpton as a protege?
We'll discuss with Adolph Reed, Jr. who wrote about Jackson's first presidental campaign.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
1hr 13 min
J.G. and J. discuss the 1986 pro wrestling classic featuring Rowdy Ronnie Piper and more, followed by a viewing of the film for patrons and paid YouTube subscribers!
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 20, 2026
Feb 20, 2026
1hr 6 min
You can find Dr. McCoy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/.../2631-cold-war-on-five...
Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.
McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanizing the history of the Cold War—a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.
As today’s great powers devote humanity’s scarce resources toward ratcheting up a “new cold war” in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy’s history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Feb 19, 2026
Feb 19, 2026
1hr 41 min
READ RYAN'S ARTICLE IN UNHERD MAGAZINE HERE: https://unherd.com/.../influencers-and-ai-will-fill-the.../
With print journalism on the decline who will pick up the slack? Influencers who care not for fact checking since engagement means more than accuracy? Many magazines are using A.I. writers as well--what challenges does this pose for a hypolitized public?
We'll discuss.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/