In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
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On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.
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S5E118 Episode 138 -- The Politics of Plagiarism-Hunting
In this episode, Adrian walks Moira through the strange politics of plagiarism hunting -- an (initially non-partisan) German preoccupation that became another line of attack in the right wing assault…
S5E116 Episode 137 -- Catching Up with the Cinema of Cancellation
For a while now (though mostly on Patreon), Moira and Adrian have examined a strange canon of films and texts about. powerful people being taken down by forces of social justice. Many of these take…
S5E114 Episode 136 -- Marilyn Monroe
For this episode, Moira guides Adrian through the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe, and the role gender played in all three. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1,…
S5E112 Episode 134: Natural Law
In this episode Moira and Adrian discuss the natural law tradition -- its origins, its long varied history, the many uses to which it has been put, and the way conservatives are trying to revive it…
S5E110 Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"
In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibboleth in certain far-right spaces. But how serious…
S5E109 Episode 131 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Dining, Flavortowns and Gender
For this episode, Adrian and Moira talk about gender and food -- specifically about the figure of the chef, visible and invisible labor and masculinity. Their main exemplar is Guy Fieri, the…
S5E108 Episode 130 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902). Famous as a pioneering feminist intellectual and crusader for women's suffrage, Stanton is today also…
S5E107 Episode 129 -- Looksmaxxing
In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the strange, disturbing world of looksmaxxing. We try to spend less time asking where this phenomenon comes from, less time gawking at the weird…
S5E106 From behind the Paywall: Episode 105 -- Richard Wagner's Parsifal
This week, Adrian and Moira are both traveling -- Adrian is finishing work on the newly titled Project 1933: Fascism Then and Now (available for preorder now). So, back by popular (?) demand (?),…
S5E105 Episode 128 -- Queer Women in Nazi Germany
Expanding on our Project 1933 series, for this episode we talked to historian Sam Huneke about the fate of queer women in Nazi Germany, 1933 and onward. This is a surprisingly contested history,…
S5E104 Episode 127 -- Bari Weiss, Part 2
In the second half of our two-part series on one of In Bed with the Right's bêtes noires, Adrian and Moira chart the resistible rise of Bari Weiss's from her time on the canceled-person circuit to…
S5E103 Episode 126 -- Bari Weiss, Part 1
It's the first half of our (possibly? hopefully?) two-part series on In Bed with the Right final boss, Bari Weiss: reactionary centrist extraordinaire, #MeToo backlasher and the woman who parlayed a…
S5E102 Episode 124 -- Wuthering Heights
Last week, Adrian and Moira went to the movies and watched director Emerald Fennell's version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (trailer here). In this episode they explore the gender politics of…
S5E101 Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files
One of the men whose presence in the Epstein Files has been making a lot of news is Bard College's forever president Leon Botstein. While there is no suggestion that Botstein participated in any of…
S5E100 Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what…
S5E99 Episode 121 -- Moira's in the Epstein Files
The Epstein files are many things: a study in elite impunity, a deep core sample of societal misogyny, a record of institutional failure. But they also give us a fascinating, if terrifying, alternate…
S5E98 Episode 120 -- The Murder of Alex Pretti
On January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection…
S5E97 Episode 118 -- The Romantasy Boom
For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Abby Kluchin from the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast to discuss a recent publishing phenomenon and its implications for gender politics: romantasy, a…
S5E96 Episode 117 -- Birth Control Misinformation
For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the conservative attack on birth control, and in particular the influencer-led, MAHA-adjacent surge of misinformation about menstruation and birth…
S5E95 Episode 116 -- A Murder in Minneapolis
On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a killing that was captured by multiple camera phones and witnessed by dozens. Since the…
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In Bed With The Right has published 112 episodes since July 2023, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Sexuality.
In Bed With The Right is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h 5m.
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