As promised, I am expanding my own nano-Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus into another medium: a podcast, or rather a series of podcasts organized under three different rubrics.

* The Road to Year Zero: A micro-documentary series revisiting the great and petty episodes on the path to ideological succession from the recent and distant American past

* Syllabus, for paid subscribers only, in which I will do a deep dive into an academic subject with a subject matter expert

* Books Do Furnish A Mind, in which I speak with a notable or merely fascinating person about one book that exercised a formative influence on them

Year Zero episode 1 is just a wee little anecdote. It say only a little bit, but strives to do so with verve. An invitation to spend countless hours with my voice reverberating in your earbuds, and a foretaste of what that will be like.

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A full transcript is available for paid subscribers.

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