This Guy Sucked

Claire and Prof. Kristin Grogan serve some poetic justice to the literary world’s favorite fascist.

Guest

Our guest Kristin Grogan is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her book Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work is available here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Torture/imprisonment, antisemitism

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @...

TGS and Lingthusiasm join forces to think through all the things that can go wrong when you give a grifter too much power over indigenous languages.

Guest

Our guest Lauren Gawne is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University and the co-host of Lingthusiasm. Follow Lingthusiasm on Bluesky and Instagram, or join their Patreon.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Genocide, racism and racial violence

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Claire and Megan Kate Nelson head west and discuss old-timey journalistic ethics along the way.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Megan Kate Nelson is a historian of the American West. Her newest book, The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier is available here. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Genocide, racism, racial violence, sexual assault

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Claire and Oscar Winberg consider whether it might be a bad idea to let television characters run your government.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Oscar Winberg is postdoctoral fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the John Morton Center for North American Studies. His book Archie Bunker for President is available here. Follow him on Bluesky or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, war

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Claire and Prof. Quinn Slobodian remind everyone that no matter how bad things are, some guys have always wanted them to get worse.

Guest

Our guest Quinn Slobodian is a professor of international history at Boston University. His newest book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, is available for pre-order along with his other books here. Follow him on Bluesky.

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find...

Claire and Dr. Ally Louks shout LOLITA IS NOT A LOVE STORY into the nearest megaphone.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Ally Louks is a literary scholar, writer, and public academic. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, and TikTok.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Child sexual abuse, pedophilia

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

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Claire and Manny, Noah, and Devan of No Such Thing try to figure out what’s really up with our freakiest Founding Father.

Guest

No Such Thing is a weekly podcast finding actual answers to today’s most pressing questions. Go give it a listen and follow the show on Instagram and TikTok.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Slavery, genocide

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin...

Claire and Prof. Richard Cole head over to medieval Jerusalem and prove that dysentery is the real mind-killer.

Guest

Our guest Richard Cole is an Associate Professor of Medieval European History at Aarhus University and host of The Chronicles, from the Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Warfare and violence

Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E. Aubin. Find her on Twitt...

Claire and Prof. Nicole Hemmer take aim at the former vice president and then make him apologize for it afterwards.

Guest

Our guest Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, as well as the host of This Day. Her books Partisans and Messengers of the Right are available here. Follow her on Bluesky @pastpunditry an...

Claire and Prof. Curtis Dozier venture back to Ancient Greece to investigate whether politicians have been horrible forever.

Guest

Our guest Curtis Dozier is an associate professor and chair of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar. His book The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate, is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @curtisdozier and visit his website, Pharos: Doing Justic...

Claire and Prof. Melissa Murray go south of the Mason-Dixon line to put America’s worst jurist on trial.

Guest

Our guest Melissa Murray is a Professor of Law at NYU and the host of Strict Scrutiny. You can buy tickets for Strict Scrutiny’s Bad Decisions tour here, and Melissa’s new book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader, is available for preorder here.

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Claire takes Eleanor, Luke, Danny, and Derek on a holy crusade to bring down Peter the Hermit.

Guest

Today’s guests are Eleanor Janega, Danny Bessner, Derek Davison, and Luke Waters the hosts of American Prestige and American Prestige: Welcome to the Crusades - give them a listen here.

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When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States came out in 1980, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start — on the deck of Columbus’s ship as it approached land — Zinn flipped the script, focusing instead on what the people standing on the shore would have seen. This episode tells the story of the ripple effects of Zinn’s radical take on history.

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Claire and Christina Wade get a little bit drunk with power and direct their righteous anger at one of the world’s most annoying men.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Christina Wade is a beer historian and the host of the Beer Ladies podcast. Her newest book, Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @braciatrix and Instagram @braciatrix, or visit her website here.

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Claire and Prof. Austin McCoy ask a very important question: does being okay at the saxophone cancel out hundreds of thousands of prison sentences and the dismantling of the welfare system?

Guest

Our guest Austin McCoy is an assistant professor at West Virginia University. His new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made is available here. Follow him on Bluesky @austinmccoy and Inst...

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Credits

- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin, or check out her website.

- Editors: Mischa Stanton and Julia Schifini.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Akilah Hughes attempt to figure out what that lady’s whole deal was and why everything is kind of her fault.

Guest

Our guest Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. Her newest podcast, How Is This Better? is available from Courier here. Follow her on Twitter @akilahobviously, on Instagram @akilahh, or visit her website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny/sexism, murder

Credits

- Host & ...

Claire and Brooke Newman travel back to the 17th century and remind a king that he deserves all the hate he gets.

Guest

Our guest Brooke Newman is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her book The Crown’s Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @brookenewman and Instagram @drbrookenewman, or visit her websit...