This is our episode on chapter 2 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. We continue the tour of the hatchery and conditioning center, and we see the ori...

This is our episode on chapter 1 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. We look at the structure of Brave New World and the radical biological engineeri...

With episode 101, the worst episode in the world, we announce the beginning of a chapter-by-chapter series on Brave New World by Aldous Huxley! We go ...

This is episode 3 of 3 on dystopian themes in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We explore the way that Section 31 is not quite dystopian, providing a fire ...

This is episode 2 of 3 on dystopian themes in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Section 31, the “no such agency” of the Federation, does dirty work in the s...

This is episode 1 of 3 on dystopian themes in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We are looking at season 4 episodes 11-12, “Homefront” and “Paradise Lost“. ...

This is part 2 of 3 on Chapter 8 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In this episode, we look a little closer at a case involving the ...

This is part 1 of 3 on Chapter 8 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn takes a step back to examine the legal foundations f...

This is episode two of two on Gattaca, the 1997 American film by Andrew Niccol. We take a look at what happens when truth is revealed, when you’ve bee...

This is episode one of two on Gattaca, the 1997 American film by Andrew Niccol. We look at the issues of genetic engineering, discrimination based on ...