Sarah tells Mike about how snuff films don’t exist but lots of near-snuff films do. Digressions include “Basic Instinct,” gymnastics and YouTube’s righthand bar. Mike is palpably grossed out for the duration.
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The Jonestown Massacre
Special guest Rachel Monroe tells Mike and Sarah what’s really behind the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid.” Digressions include David Koresh, East Germany and how flower children were the first millennials. Mike inadvertently reveals his prejudice against extroverts.
For more of Rachel’s work, check out her website. Recently she’s written about #vanlife, a romance scammer, essential oils and the kidnapping of a Navajo girl. Her book on women, true crime and obsession comes out next year.
Links!
- “Escape from Jonestown: https://longreads.com/2014/11/12/escape-from-jonestown/
- Rolling Stone’s 1979 article on the origin and aftermath of the massacre: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death-guyana-after-the-jonestown-massacre-19790125
- Interviews with Jonestown survivors from 2014: https://hazlitt.net/longreads/how-did-happen-and-how-did-i-not-see-it-coming
- “One Family’s Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre”: http://www.laweekly.com/news/from-silver-lake-to-suicide-one-familys-secret-history-of-the-jonestown-massacre-2156594
- And finally, the baby preacher! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zALqMWimBbM
The Clinton Impeachment
Part two of our epic dissection of the Clinton impeachment scandal. This week: The story breaks, the House indicts, the Senate demurs and Mike rants more than usual about the media. Digressions include Mark Fuhrman, “Broadcast News” and gay porn.
Links!
- An interview with Ken Gormley, the author of “Clinton vs. Starr”: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123653000
- Fascinating academic article comparing coverage of Watergate to coverage of Clinton: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884904044937
- “Book: Hillary Clinton Error Led to Impeachment”: https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/04/25/book-hillary-clinton-error-led-to-impeachment
- Unchained Reaction: The Collapse of Media Gatekeeping and the Clinton–Lewinsky Scandal: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=asc_papers
- Sex, Politics, and Public Opinion: What Political Scientists Really Learned From the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=polisci_pubs
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Monica Lewinsky
Sarah and Mike talk about what America forgot — and never learned — about history’s most famous intern. Digressions include generational resentments, 1990s fashion and off-brand colleges. Also, Mike’s microphone breaks about 25 minutes in, so he sounds like he’s recording in a submarine. Sorry!
Links:
- The Starr Report: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-105hdoc310/pdf/CDOC-105hdoc310.pdf
- Unchained Reaction: The Collapse of Media Gatekeeping and the Clinton–Lewinsky Scandal: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=asc_papers
- Sex, Politics, and Public Opinion: What Political Scientists Really Learned From the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=polisci_pubs
- The Clinton/Lewinsky Story: How Accurate? How Fair?: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/legacy/Clinton-Lewinsky%20story.pdf
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Anita Hill
Mike tells Sarah about the complicated legacy of Anita Hill and the not-particularly-complicated facts of her case. Digressions include “Tootsie,” Garrison Keillor and the Donner party. For reasons unknown, Mike seems to believe that one flies “down” from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C.
Links:
- Mike’s video on Anita Hill and sexual harassment law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_3Rw78-VE
- Another Mike video, this one a complication of testimony from a 1992 Congressional hearing on sexual harassment: https://rottenindenmark.org/2017/03/27/sexual-harassment/
- “The Other Woman,” the 1994 article about Angela Wright: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/10/09/the-other-woman/ca495db5-5a09-4397-8620-fd443751c8e2/?utm_term=.1ef587ac21a3
- “Anita Hill: The Rest of the Story” https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/selectedwork/docs/anita-hill-the-complete-story-florence-graves.pdf
- A lovely history of sexual harassment law: https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/Faculty/Siegel_IntroductionAShortHistoryOfSexualHarrasmentLaw.pdf
- Nice review of Catherine MacKinnon’s 1976 book, “Sexual Harassment of Working Women”: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4230&context=uclrev
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Stockholm Syndrome
Some links!
The 1974 New Yorker story on the Stockholm bank robbery: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/11/25/the-bank-drama
“The Hearst Nightmare,” also from 1974: http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,911211-1,00.html
A well-argued academic paper from 1993, “Understanding Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence: A Redefinition of Battered Woman Syndrome”: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=hlr
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