Claire and Vanessa Williamson talk about death, taxes, and a man who literally believed they should go hand-in-hand.

Guest

Our guest Dr. Vanessa Williamson is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her book The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @vanessawilliamson.

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racial violence, murder, slavery

Credits

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

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- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire, Nicole Hemmer, and Kevin Schultz play some games and answer the easiest question in the world: are all of the American presidents bad?

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Guest

Nicole Hemmer is a professor of History at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency. Her podcast This Day is available here or anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow her on Bluesky and Instagram.

Kevin Schultz is a professor in History at The University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals Including White Liberals, available here. Follow him on Instagram and TikTok.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, racism and racial violence, antisemitism

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Dr. Jonathan Fine build a case against the vice president’s favorite philosopher in the court of public opinion.

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Guest

Our guest Dr. Jonathan Fine is a Germanist specializing in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Follow him on Twitter @jonathanbfine and on Bluesky @jonathanbfine, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Antisemitism, Political violence

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Cynthia Paces try to separate a man from a whole lot of mysteries.

Guest

Our guest Cynthia Paces is a Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. Her new book Prague: the Heart of Europe, is available here. Visit her website here.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Dismemberment/disfigurement, sexual coercion

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Eric Silver remind us that sometimes games we love are created by not-so-good people who openly wanted to do an immense amount of psychic damage to some of their players.

Guest

Our guest Eric Silver is a podcaster, writer, and the Game Master for TTRPG actual play podcast Join The Party. Follow him on Bluesky and Instagram, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Misogyny, drug use, sexual violence

Eric’s Article

Dungeons & Dragons Has An Antisemitism Problem

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire is joined by Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim from Wow If True to discuss the collapse of the internet and why we can’t have nice things anymore.

**The full episode is available on the TGS Patreon now and will become available in full on the public Wow If True feed from 10/15.**

Collaborators

Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim are the hosts and intrepid internet travelers behind Wow If True, the podcast of your wildest memes. Find Amanda on her website and Isabel on hers - and don’t forget to preorder Sublimation.

This episode discusses Cory Doctorow’s new book Enshittification in some depth - go buy it!

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Political violence, death threats.

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Prof. Dan Hicks bring (more) shame on the name Pitt-Rivers, and make an argument for unburying all of the archival bodies.

Guest

Our guest Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford, as well as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His newest book, Every Monument Will Fall is available here. Follow him on Bluesky, Instagram and… LinkedIn?

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Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, eugenics, violence, grave desecration and human remains

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

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Claire and Professor Louis Moore go a few rounds with America’s first heavyweight champion.

Guest

Our guest Professor Louis Moore is a Professor of History at Michigan State University and the co-host of the Black Athlete Podcast. His newest book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback is available here, and I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood is available here. Follow him on Twitter @loumoore12 and on Bluesky @profloumoore, or visit his website.

Sensitive Themes & Topics

Racism, violence, animal abuse, alcoholism

Credits

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

- Editor: Julia Schifini. Check out her website.

- Music: Marshall Dean Williams

- Multitude: multitude.productions

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