Peak Oil: It's a Crude, Crude World
Oil is everywhere. It’s all around us. It’s in everything, and it makes the world go around. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects...
Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation
This week’s alliterative Quickie is brought to you by the letter “I.” In typical Quickie fashion, we delve into three distinct, but related, topics:...
Libertarians Are Exhausting: Part Two. Inside the 50-year American coup d'état.
In Part Two of “Libertarians are Exhausting,” we’re still talking about freedom and liberty. Economic freedom, personal liberty and the next...
Libertarians Are Exhausting: But They Might Be On To Something(s). Part One.
Libertarians can be exhausting. Because libertarianism has so many attractive features and strong statements about “freedom” and “liberty,” they have...
A (Mostly) Vegan World: Plantf*ckers Can Save Us All
As many of you know, we’ve had this on the pod-docket for months. It’s finally time to unf*ck our food system and talk about veganism. We decided not...
Make UNFTR part of the 1%.
(Not that 1%, the other one.)
Holiday Quickie: How the Manch Stole Christmas
Our little Unf*cking team wishes the Unf*cking community a safe and healthy holiday season. We'll be back on January 8th with a new drop, but here's...
Labor Unions: From Pullman to Kellogg’s. Labor’s Long, Hard Road
From Pullman and Carnegie to Kellogg's and the PRO Act, this week, we unf*ck the labor movement in the United States. No single episode can possibly...
Playing Chicken with China: How Propaganda Rationalizes Conflict
There were 15 references to China in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The recent bill passed by the House, which is more than what...
Happy Noam Chomsky Day: Pundits, Public Intellectuals & Charlatans
Today, we celebrate the life of Noam Chomsky, who turns 93 this week, and discuss the nature of punditry, the role of true intellectuals in today’s...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Debt, Diplomacy and Destruction
It’s chilly here in New York, so we’ve got the Caribbean on the brain. Actually, we’re just building on our money and power episodes and tying in...
The Itsfuckedforsure Bill: And the Ghosts of Spending Bills Past
President Biden signed H.R. 3684 into law, with leaders in Washington breaking their arms to pat themselves on the back. Never mind that the...
The Global Order of Power: Money, Position & Might
Last week, we reviewed the global order of money. Today, we examine money’s sister, power. It’s an American-centric journey spanning 75 years, from...
The Global Order of Money: How Exactly Does It Make the World Go ’Round?
We’ve hit on some big economic themes, from capitalism and socialism to deregulation, privatization and Modern Monetary Theory. And we’re typically...