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2025-10-1404 min
The Althouse PodcastSlightly salty deep bitePerson of the Year, calling Jill “Dr.”, deep and shallow, who cares that Elvis died, writing to annoy, Earthlings.
2020-12-161h 07The Althouse PodcastBeginning to see the lightDolly Parton, Tony Hsieh, Shel Silverstein, children’s books, luck, Buffalo Bill Cody, mediocre white men, Netflix murdering movie theaters, the collective mind, the Spelling Bee puzzle, the word “headpiece,” Darkmonth.
2020-12-081h 22The Althouse PodcastGetting better all the timeAn old aphorism, comic strips, John Lennon, toxic positivity, Biden’s rhetoric, Biden’s dogs, Cher’s elephant, emotional support animals, COVID restrictions on religious schools and figures on New Yorker covers.
2020-12-031h 07The Althouse PodcastFirst, there is a monolith/Then there is no monolithA Zen mountain, the “vanishing” monolith, Trump’s wall likened to a Christo project, the fiction of “The Crown,” David Brooks’s notion of the “rotting” GOP mind, lax grooming in COVID times, learning from hermits in COVID times, and the memory of smells.
2020-11-2958 min2020-11-2633 minThe Althouse PodcastMystery metal monolithTrump’s non-bombshell, Trump’s subversion, Rudy’s movie, kids and COVID, Madison’s #1, Hillbilly Elegy, Biden loyalists want taking care of, the monolith of the Canyonlands, Trump’s non-weird 90-second press conference.
2020-11-251h 12The Althouse PodcastThe brain is not for thinkingBiden is boring, Biden and the media, Washingtonians want to party again, Trump’s failing fight, the brain isn’t for thinking, Tom Cotton for President, and the “Floor Frame” sculpture in the Rose Garden.
2020-11-2432 minThe Althouse PodcastA less mamlish mementoA transgender writer dies, 2 Latin words, a little Shakespeare, a Bible story about Hell, a NYT spelling game, the bad word “nappy,” the mysterious word “mamlish,” what’s new in Pompeii, the desire for a crisply clear election result, and the love of a soft misty morning.
2020-11-2343 minThe Althouse PodcastWhat if you had to argue...?Bad arguments, bad evidence, irony, Trump’s struggle, Amy Coney Barrett’s first death penalty case, hypocrisy, Kyle Rittenhouse, problematizing the UW rock, not casting an autistic actor, Michael J. Fox and Parkinson’s and gratitude.
2020-11-211h 02The Althouse PodcastBlobby globsMisunderstanding viral media, Biden’s modest calmness, Kamala’s prosecutorial problem, divine conversation.
2020-11-2036 minThe Althouse PodcastGazing at intransigenceStill counting the votes, Democratic Party in-fighting, NYC school shutdown, Matt Yglesias doesn’t quite tell his story, gambling on whether Melania wants a divorce.
2020-11-1940 minThe Althouse PodcastAgainst ThanksgivingBiden and embarrassment, Mo Willems and aging, kids and coronavirus, the war on Thanksgiving, shunning the Trumps, ogling in Pakistan, and the depiction of bad people as ugly.
2020-11-1844 minThe Althouse PodcastPretzel in pocketPretzels, height, crabs, white-presenting voters, roll-off voters, Wikipedia, Billie Eilish, George Harrison, David Bowie, Chrissie Hynde, Emanuel Macron.
2020-11-1719 minThe Althouse PodcastThe limbo of desperadosObama’s book, Kamala Harris as VP, Timothy Leary, art and free speech, Trumpsters vs. anti-Trumpsters, Hispanic voters and socialism.
2020-11-1537 minThe Althouse PodcastThe wheel’s still in spinCoddling baby-adults, winning the culture war, Dylan’s losers, calling kids fat, walking the war out of your system, the museum’s accidental honoring of male supremacy.
2020-11-1450 minThe Althouse PodcastThat’s just an alabaiElon Musk and COVID, my dream about Biden, Alito and the erosion of rights, colossal dog statue in Turkmenistan, the largest statues in the world, Meghan McCain mocks Trump, a cheeky interviewer in Nebraska, Trump adjust to losing, Harvard and affirmative action.
2020-11-1446 minThe Althouse PodcastI’m on a Soviet radioTrump’s hot tweets, Trump’s forthcoming media empire, Obama’s possible America, the Soviet radio, the botched art restorations, the badness of public art, Elon Musk on Mars, living like it’s 1958.
2020-11-1244 minThe Althouse PodcastThe watery bejeezusNude and naked sculptures, water meadows, the Oversoul, Trump declassifying secrets, Benford’s law, the Electoral College.
2020-11-1155 minThe Althouse PodcastThe Era of That’s Not FunnyBiden’s historian and the soul of America; Trump appeals to Hispanic voters; Republicans won’t tell Trump to stand down; murder defendant kills himself; Joy Reid’s gaffe; Mick Jagger’s sarcasm; Anthony Burgess trashes Adrienne Rich’s apartment; Mike Pompeo cracks a joke.
2020-11-1046 minThe Althouse PodcastLurking on a perchAlex Trebek, corrupt sommeliers, Buttigieg to the U.N., Democratic Party in-fighting, Trump can help keep the Senate red, Jake Tapper invites job discrimination.
2020-11-0945 minThe Althouse PodcastHealing and homesteadingKamala explains Joe, Giuliani talks about litigation, Kamala’s ancestral village celebrates, Biden offers a rest period, calling your childhood phone number, Dave Chappelle feels our pain, AOC might quit politics.
2020-11-0848 minThe Althouse PodcastWeasels and chainsaws distracted meMutated minks in Denmark, Chainsaw Gordy, Biden’s speech, chanting at the sun, a gracious concession, the cookie crumbles, tracking down fake ballots, irrational faith in Biden’s laying on of hands.
2020-11-0751 minThe Althouse PodcastWild accusationsTrump’s speech — live and by transcript, praying to the government, the wretched decline of journalism, seeing your fellow citizens as toxic, and the belly-up elephant and donkey.
2020-11-0625 minThe Althouse PodcastI wonI realize that I won, and maybe you’ll see it my way, and then you too will have won!
2020-11-0545 minThe Althouse PodcastCan you tell me please, who won?Post-election day rhetoric analyzed, a stoical approach, the language of boarded-up windows, there will be math, and the squandered credibility of the press.
2020-11-0444 minThe Althouse PodcastWe all had funThe right not to vote, it all depends on Pennsylvania, second in line to vote, the “mathematical president-elect,” we all had fun, what a Hitler ad would look like, the “Little Pimp” gaffe.
2020-11-0336 minThe Althouse PodcastGalumphing toward the apocalypseMelanie jokes, Lady Gaga throws beer, Marathon mind will do, Joe the stalking horse, fluffy wedding photos ape the West, Trump’s devilish plan, Anonymous is anonymous, woman’s way of knowing, Ben Franklin’s rising sun, Scotland’s intrafamily spies, Biden reveals his bunglers, and Meade talks and talks to phonebank women.
2020-11-0259 minThe Althouse PodcastOnly in it for the moneyCostumes of mundaneness, the Biden bus incident, taking off the mask, why the polls might be more wrong in 2020 than in 2016, weaponizing movie stars, censoring harmful speech, is Trump doing everything for the money?
2020-11-0139 minThe Althouse PodcastUgly folks over there honkingTrump rhetoric, Halloween, fired up to vote, drive-in rallies, Kamala’s laughing, decoy debunking, cheese woes, predictions of violence, Brett Favre, nerve and courage, Michael Moore, Sean Connery, the lost landslide, Joe Rogan and Alex Jones.
2020-10-311h 03The Althouse PodcastIncoherent stories of extreme experienceWoke movies, the dreary 33.1% GDP spurt, Kanye’s way, kind of like Verlaine and Rimbaud, enough is enough in France, Democrats and Republicans sleeping together, Trump’s womanliness.
2020-10-2958 minThe Althouse PodcastTit-for-tat tattersTrump/Biden refrigerators, love/hate for Trump, judge yelling at defense lawyer, Pennsylvania Trumpsters, tit-for-tat Court packing, protecting Black kids from in-person schooling, Biden-protecting journalism, and coronavirus Halloween.
2020-10-2834 minThe Althouse PodcastSkittering in the fading purple lightTrump and Obama in Lititz, Amy Coney Barrett on Senators and their policy preference, and Obama writes another book.
2020-10-2726 minThe Althouse PodcastThe best taste on the planetKanye and Black History Month, abortion, and the best taste in the world, Chinese millennials don’t want democracy, the abstruse sexual inaction of politics, Cher sings for Joe like Sinatra sang for JFK, Kazakhstan adopts the Borat catchphrase, and the idea that voting for Biden will push back the left.
2020-10-2648 minThe Althouse PodcastAlone in the closetThe Supreme Court doesn’t need reforming, we’re all running out of steam, Kanye’s Coliseum for God, Mr. Bojangles, shaming men for acting like women, remaking “Rebecca,” family love among the Bidens and Trumps, Obama knows you’re exhausted.
2020-10-2552 minThe Althouse PodcastA weird obsession with skin and bloodKamala’s womb rhetoric, Obama’s cages, football patriotism, a female socialist President, bleeders, books bound in human skin, believing or disbelieving that Hunter’s laptop is real, anti-racist Boogaloo Bois, and the chimney-top dandelion.
2020-10-241h 00The Althouse PodcastAbsurd, stunning, insane overlordsBiden said he’d end the oil industry, Ghislaine Maxwell’s nonabsurd deposition, what “is” is, a passion for ponies, McConnell’s bruises, the media help Joe Biden, Sean Ono Lennon calls Facebook “insane overlords,” and Johnny Rotten demonstrate how to love your wife to the very end.
2020-10-2340 minThe Althouse PodcastThe inside is outSacha Baron Cohen, Giuliani, and revenge porn; WaPo reports from the inside of Trump’s head; Biden ad, Sam Elliott, and Tegridy Farms; Bobulinski and The Big Guy; grasping the stinging nettle; Schumer orates against Amy Coney Barrett; antitrust and Google; Obama at the drive-in calling Philadelphians lazy.
2020-10-2245 minThe Althouse PodcastFixing a holeWill Trump win, Facebook censors Babylon Bee, Megyn Kelly insults Michael Savage, WaPo covers Biden blandly, Covid less deadly lately, random Amazon weirdness, Black people supporting Trump, the female Toobin.
2020-10-2150 minThe Althouse PodcastAnatomy lessonToobin’s transgression, narwhal pardon, naked parody, trust-busting, Rush the Stoic, this hidden wellspring of spit, nude man in the forest, and Hunter Biden and the subjectivity of truth.
2020-10-201h 01The Althouse PodcastNew morningFreeway privilege, Dylan’s New Morning, a rapped confession, water for a blood bath, Trump wants suburban women, voting without cognition, voting with hatred.
2020-10-1937 minThe Althouse PodcastSinking giggling into the seaA collective American identity, glimpsing The Beatles and Margaret Thatcher, clerisy heresy, the lion and the dromedary, and why can’t the broad left of America say “freedom.”
2020-10-1950 minThe Althouse PodcastPre-bunking the ObscurantismPre-bunking, Obscurantism, cartoons, censorship, murder, Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, Billie Eilish, Ice Cube.
2020-10-1753 minThe Althouse PodcastDo not think you can escape the eyesTrump’s Covid, Biden’s Court-packing, the falconer named Parrot, the masculinities of Trump and Biden, the eyes of Texas, and fitting a third child into your sedan.
2020-10-161h 00The Althouse PodcastMay we riot now?Joe and Hunter Biden, Facebook and Twitter, Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow, George Floyd and Ice Cube, Generation Alpha, the feminist Medusa monument and the isolated anarchist.
2020-10-151h 04The Althouse PodcastNasty tenacityNyctinasty, Goldfinger as feminist critique, Trump losing to the worst candidate ever, the female Scalia, and agonizing over all those times you might have said “sexual preference.”
2020-10-1450 minThe Althouse PodcastThe difficult empathy of the porcupineAmy Coney Barrett talks to the Senate, Joe Biden talks to an empty rotunda, and Donald Trump wants to kiss everybody.
2020-10-1348 minThe Althouse PodcastAt the Dust-and-Trash CaféA firewall of Italianness, the invention of punctuation, toppling Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln, the propaganda of mid-level violence, chugging cran-raspberry juice, goodbye to Joe Morgan, and doing the camel walk.
2020-10-121h 12The Althouse PodcastThe ochre tones of insect politicsJim Carrey does Biden as Goldblum, Thunberg’s autistic perspective, dying on Mount Katahdin, taking the bar exam while in labor, and wrecking the wrecks.
2020-10-1153 minThe Althouse PodcastWe, the Unimpeachably Great HooplesDancing the boogaloo, deaccessioning white male art, the truth and the life, the well-regulated militia, the 25th amendment, packing the Court, abstaining in the election, and the immortality of John Lennon
2020-10-101h 01The Althouse PodcastAll the dangerous dudes are on the other sideKidnapping the governor, ousting the ads, honoring the poet, critiquing facelessness, loving free speech, Nicks and the doggface, a safe Peace Prize, namaste.
2020-10-091h 08The Althouse PodcastFixating on the divine flyThe VP debate, that fly, Sartre’s “The Flies”, Hanoi Jane, the fattest bear, and the most masculine men
2020-10-081h 09The Althouse PodcastTriumph of the Care BearsEddie, geniuses, insults, stimulus, adultery, plexiglass, Care Bears, Leni Riefenstahl, the dossier, and sarcasm
2020-10-0732 minThe Althouse PodcastCool scribblings, coming softly from fingersOver-emotive piano playing... photos that look like something by Wes Anderson... or Andy Warhol... the fake fear/courage distinction about covid, and the return of “mother’s little helper.” You can eavesdrop as I read my blog to my husband.
2020-10-061h 12The Althouse PodcastRooting for patriotismTrump's covid as a campaign opportunity, Dan Rather's patriotism aphorism, teaching via monuments, we lost Janis Joplin 50 years ago — readings from the Althouse blog this morning, with added commentary.
2020-10-0524 minThe Althouse PodcastCaramelizing the karmaSNL teams up science and karma, Monica Lewinsky wants a psychology czar, Trump looking busy and not orange, and swapping Mike Pence in as the presidential nominee.
2020-10-0433 minThe Althouse PodcastPoetic JusticeNo quorum to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, Trump the tragic hero, using and abusing murder hornets, CNN should be BPP, that birdsong, text-on-text action, the editor self-immolates.
2020-10-0340 minThe Althouse PodcastHarvest Moon MorningA birdsong, Trump has COVID, Americans feel justified in using violence, hate speech against the disabled, the line of presidential succession.
2020-10-0236 minThe Althouse PodcastThe interconnectedness of the frazzlementHow Trump won the debate, the Army wants naps and journaling, the artists and museums can’t get coherent about white supremacy.
2020-10-011h 16The Althouse PodcastThere’s got to be a rainbow after that weird, scary debateTrump’s suspicious preposition, I Am Woman, the rainbow in my hair, 2 idiots, and the failure to talk about Critical Race Theory.
2020-09-3054 minThe Althouse PodcastWho’ll stop the sunrise?Trump’s taxes, wet hair, Edward Hopper and the deplorables, the Wild Card series, and gesturing “stop” at the sunrise.
2020-09-2917 min
The Althouse PodcastThe reborn audible AlthouseThis morning’s bloggings include Trump’s taxes, the idea that Clarence Thomas cannot be fair to Joe Biden, Prince Harry’s reality show, and The Rock looking like Fruit of the Loom grapes.
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