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S2E1 Hell is Empty: America in the Age of Psychosis
Five years after his last podcast, Steven Reisner returns, reporting from Berlin – the city that unleashed the devils of the 20th century - to explain how, today, America is losing its mind. Drawing…
S1E9 Beauty is Truth: A Tale of Covid in Two Cities
Have Americans, in the aftermath of Trump and in the time of COVID, lost our ability to appreciate beauty? And without beauty, how will we combat the ugly threats of the 21st century: the climate…
S1E8 Election emergency: Can we pull America out of its death spiral?
America is in the midst of an emergency – an emergency which threatens our bodies, threatens our social fabric, and threatens our very souls. How we come out of this emergency, over the next days and…
S1E7 In Praise of Shame
When Donald Trump steals our democracy, will Americans fight to save it? In Episode 7, Dr. Steven Reisner argues that if America is to be saved—if America is worth saving—Americans must reconnect…
S1E6 The Masque of the Black Death (Racism in the Time of Trump)
In 1842, Edgar Allen Poe wrote the Masque of the Red Death, a prescient short story about a country devastated by plague. “No pestilence,” Poe wrote, “had ever been so fatal or so hideous.” But the…
S1E5 Mourn and Mobilize: Radical psychoanalysis confronts the climate emergency
Climate trauma – is it the result of the climate catastrophe or a consequence of our inability to really imagine such a catastrophe, even when it is taking place all around us? Dr Steven Reisner…
S1E4 Paranoia: Is it good for the Jews?
Paranoia - is it a mental disorder or a political strategy? Dr Steven Reisner exposes the underlying connection between our Trumpian culture of paranoia and the eruption of antisemitic violence by…
S1E2 Trump, lies & the American way: a psychoanalysis of political lying
What was Trump’s very first lie? Steven Reisner explores the effects of lying on children, on politics, and ultimately on our democracy. And he asks the question, if Trump has been lying all along,…
S1E1 A constitutional crisis without a written constitution?
The importance of eye contact, the “fascist nature” of traffic lights vs “democratic” traffic circles, how Britain’s unwritten constitution is holding up better than America’s written one; Steven…
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Madness: the Podcast. has published 9 episodes since October 2019, covering topics in Society & Culture.
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