You're Wrong About
Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Episodes
What would you do if you were pinned down by an 800-pound boulder, and no one knew where you were? In 2003, Aron Ralston had to answer that question. Today, our survival correspondent Blair Braverman is here to tell us the tale of the man, the myth, and the multitool.
Blair Braverman tells us how the legendary story of one good dog is actually a story of two good dogs.
Read Blair’s book, Small Game:
https://www.in...
There's one last present at the toe of our stocking, and it's a new album by producer Carolyn Kendrick. We'll be back with a regular episode next week, but for now, come listen to some music, and join us for a conversation about making art and community in uncertain times, and the new year's dreams that will sustain us in 2025.
Find Carolyn's songs, record, website, zine, and more here:
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'Twas (the night before) the night before Christmas/ And all through the show/ We await Sarah Archer with eyes all aglow/ To blow the dust off some old books from the shelf/ And tell us the tale of a jolly old elf.
Where did he come from?/ Where is he going?/ We know you have questions/ So bundle up, if it's snowing/ And sing out your favorite holiday song/ (As ever, it was capitalism all along.)
Miles Klee can’t take it anymore. This week, a tale of corporate intrigue, world domination, and soda.
Read Miles Klee at Rolling Stone.
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"Our alleged serial killers deserve better than this." Was Elizabeth Báthory the most prolific serial killer of all time, or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Do we even have the tools to know? And what about that bathing in the blood of virgins thing? Lizzie correspondent Princess Weekes is here with your election night distract-a-thon.
Princess' YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Princes...
Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts/ Covens of witches with all of their hosts/ You may think they scare me, you're probably right/ But American Hysteria's Chelsey Weber-Smith is on the show tonight. It's a tale of mischief, mayhem, and adults trying to keep their kids safe by nailing meat to the walls. What is Halloween? Can there be treats without tricks? And does it really count if no one's hous...
What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost? Join Sarah and Chelsey Weber-Smith (of American Hysteria) for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic spectacular for the living and dead. Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist séance* featuring fireside conversation, mystifying tricks, special guests, and music from The Little Lies – the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that m...
Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, is here to take us on a trip through American history where we learn about revolutions, change, and joy not from a few white men, but from generations of Black women.
Kellie Carter Jackson https://www.kelliecarterjackson.com/
Read We Refuse https://www.kelliecarterjackson.com/we-refuse
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"Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
— Justice Anthony Kennedy
This week, Marcus McCann brings us to the end of our story of a few good men who challenged Texas' anti-so...
Or, is it legal to have gay sex in your own home? This week, Marcus McCann takes us back to the 2003 Supreme Court case that challenged a Texas anti-sodomy law--with little stops along the way for Mexican food, the endowment of James Dean, and peevish police. (Part 2 coming next week!)
Dale Carpenter's book Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
Marcus' book Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander off the Path...
"As long as the law is male, women must be outlaws."
— Linnea Johnson
This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves.
Moira's podcast In Bed with the Right
Moira in the Guardian
Moira on the tradwife
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This week we travel back to the 80s, when America’s parents decided to freak out over some kids rolling dice and drawing things on graph paper! Adrian Daub walks Sarah through the history of Dungeons & Dragons, and the panic it inspired.
Content note: The story we're telling today also involves suicide; please listen with care.
Find Adrian online here.
Buy his book The Cancel Culture Panic here.
And check out this delightfu...
Maggie Mertens tells us a tale of the first women who fought to run the marathon, and of one woman who decided to cut to the finish line.
Find Maggie online here.
Find Maggie's book Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women online here.
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What is “originalism,” and what does it have to do with all these bribes? Mackenzie Joy Brennan has some answers.
Find Mackenzie online here.
You can find Abortion Access Front online here.
"Anita Hill" episode of You're Wrong About.
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery by Moira Donegan
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The city of Cleveland will not be made to apologize for its balloons. Harmony Colangelo defends the mistake on the lake.
You can find Harmony on This Ends at Prom.
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[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance Phase
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This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on?
Listen to Taylor's podcast, Power User
Read Taylor in the Washington Post
...and her book, Extremely Online
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Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.
Alejandra's website:
olivalejandra.com
Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672
Further Reading:
Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)
Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is H...
Sarah Archer came by to make an episode from scratch. What's the real history of the American housewife? Where did the tradwife come from, and why? Is she okay? Will we be okay? And who is she churning all that butter for?
Sarah Archer's accompanying Substack post https://open.substack.com/pub/saraharcher/p/going-to-business
Sarah Archer's bibliography
Clips:
Mrs. Modern versus Mrs. Drudge from The Middleton Family at t...
Today, Princess Weekes takes us to meet the real Rosa Parks.
Find Princess on YouTube:
Princess’ video, “The 1920s Sex Scandal You’ve Never Heard of”
Support You're Wrong About:
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Sarah's other show: You Are Good
[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show: Maintenance Phase
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Let's go outside in the sunshine.
An extended cut of this episode is available for Patreon and Apple Plus subscribers.
You can buy Marcus McCann's book, Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path, here.
Support You're Wrong About:
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