Culture war drama hits a new low when a podcasting convention issues an apology for letting Ben Shapiro show up and… actually, that’s about it. Then, Jesse Singal regales us with the story of the American Historical Association’s president, James H. Sweet, and how his attack on presentism got him canceled. Thankfully, Katie Herzog intervenes to soothe us with some nice drawings of dinosaurs and – no, nevermind, turns out there’s drama here, too: paleoartist and behavioral geneticist Emily Willoughby has been exposed for sending black elementary schoolers to jail. Somehow.
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Ben Shapiro causes a firestorm by standing, also breathing
Image: Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur - stock illustration via Getty
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Episode 129: We Must Fight Against Presentism In Our Analysis Of Nazi Dinosaurs
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Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
Episode 129: We Must Fight Against Presentism In Our Analysis Of Nazi Dinosaurs