Darts and Letters

This is about ‘arts and letters,’ but for the kind of people who might hack a dart. We cover public intellectualism and the politics of academia from a left perspective. Each week, we interview thinkers about key debates that are relevant to the left. We discuss politics, culture, and intellectual history.

The Rationality Wars #2: The (ir)Rational Rainbow
Jul 2, 2024 – 1:10:18
The Rationality Wars #1: The (ir)Rational Mob
Jun 24, 2024 – 53:20
Introducing: The Rational Wars (Series Trailer)
Jun 17, 2024 – 4:45
EP85: Mutual Aid & the Anarchist Radical Imagination (ft. Elif Genc, Payton McDonald, Max Haiven, & Alex Khasnabish)
Oct 6, 2023 – 1:07:50
EP84: Big Psychedelic (ft. Erika Dyke and David Nickles)
Aug 29, 2023 – 1:09:42
EP83: The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (ft. Raj Patel, Joel Bakan, and more)
Jul 24, 2023 – 1:16:51
EP82: The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
Jul 10, 2023 – 55:00
EP81: Introducing Academic Edgelords & Reading the Unabomber
Jun 28, 2023 – 1:12:53
EP80: Dr. Ex Machina (ft. Casey Ross & Ben Chin-Yee)
Jun 12, 2023 – 1:09:40
EP79: Learning for Liberation: The Life & Legacy of Paulo Freire
May 25, 2023 – 1:02:29
EP78: Misinformed: The Lab Leak & the Politics of Misinformation (ft. Branko Marcetic & Nicole M. Krause)
May 8, 2023 – 1:00:53
EP77: The Hearts of Men (ft. Vaush, Annie Kelly, & Nicholas Lemann)
Apr 12, 2023 – 1:26:22
EP76: Do You Want to Live Forever?
Mar 27, 2023 – 1:05:18
EP75: The Hippie High-Rise
Mar 13, 2023 – 1:06:00
EP74: PlasticPills on AI & the New Crisis of Humanities Education
Feb 27, 2023 – 1:09:55
EP73: Drafts & Letters — Vietnam War Resisters Come to Canada
Feb 14, 2023 – 55:23
EP72.1 BONUS: Kino Lefter & Darts on Discordia (2004) and Student Activism
Feb 7, 2023 – 1:21:49
EP72: Discordia Revisited — The Meaning of the Concordia Netanyahu Riot (ft. Yves Engler, Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal & more)
Jan 30, 2023 – 1:13:28
EP71: MAID in Canada (ft. Nipa Chauhan, Trudo Lemmens & Dr. Derryk Smith)
Dec 23, 2022 – 1:05:15
EP70: Chokepoint Capitalism ft. (Cory Doctorow)
Dec 12, 2022 – 46:57
EP69: Mathematical Morality (ft. Émile P. Torres)
Nov 28, 2022 – 45:51
EP68: Science Against the People (ft. Charles Schwartz & Sigrid Schmalzer)
Nov 14, 2022 – 59:58
EP67: Darts Transit Commission (ft. Paris Marx)
Oct 31, 2022 – 42:54
EP66: Technocracy Now!, pt. 3 (ft. Sam Adler-Bell & Alessandro Delfanti)
Oct 18, 2022 – 1:01:09
EP65: Technocracy Now!, pt. 2 (ft. Joy Rohde & Eden Medina)
Oct 10, 2022 – 1:03:38
EP64: Technocracy Now!, part 1 (ft. Noam Chomsky)
Oct 3, 2022 – 1:03:02
Coming Soon: Technocracy Now!
Sep 30, 2022 – 1:02
EP63: Who Researches the Researchers?
Aug 12, 2022 – 55:41
EP62: Socialize the Series of Tubes (ft. Ben Tarnoff)
Jul 29, 2022 – 53:53
EP61: Enter the Zuckerverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost)
Jul 15, 2022 – 44:22
EP60: Not Alright Alright Alright (Big Shiny Takes ft. Gordon Katic)
Jun 30, 2022 – 1:27:15
EP59: January 6th and the Myth of the Mob (ft. James Jasper and Joy Rohde)
Jun 19, 2022 – 1:08:35
EP58: The Twisted “Science” of Great Replacement Theory
Jun 3, 2022 – 42:25
EP57: Truck Nuts (ft. Matt Christman, Shane Hamilton, Chase Barber, Justin Martin, & Gabrielle Esperdy)
May 21, 2022 – 1:15:34
EP56: Don’t Look Left (ft. David Sirota)
May 6, 2022 – 42:32
EP55: Mutually-Assured Dysfunction (ft. Jessica Hurley & Mark Winfield)
Apr 23, 2022 – 59:43
EP54: Dugin: Russia’s Imperial Philosopher
Apr 8, 2022 – 39:43
EP53: Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Mar 25, 2022 – 46:41
EP52: The DNA of a Wrongful Imprisonment (ft. Kimani Boden, Stephen Cordner & Amade M’charek)
Mar 11, 2022 – 45:18
EP51: This is Your Brain on Trial (ft. Andrew Scull, Tess Neal & Roland Nadler)
Feb 25, 2022 – 1:03:44
EP31: Moral Kombat (ft. Liana Kerzner, Cyril Lachel, & Henry Jenkins) [Rebroadcast]
Feb 18, 2022 – 1:06:14
EP50: Don’t hate the player (ft. Alexander Lee)
Feb 11, 2022 – 32:50
EP49: Unionversity: College Athletics and the Fight for Fair Pay (ft. Edwin Garret, Helena Worthen & Joe Berry)
Feb 4, 2022 – 56:52
EP48: Plague Robbers: Nothing Spreads Like Greed (ft. John Nichols)
Jan 28, 2022 – 43:08
EP47: Lost Utopias: A History of World’s Fairs (ft. Rob Rydell, Jade Doskow & Jennifer Slack)
Jan 22, 2022 – 1:09:23
EP46: School Scams (ft. Derek Robertson & Gavin Moodie)
Jan 14, 2022 – 45:11
EP45: New Years Resolutions from, and for, the left
Jan 7, 2022 – 17:19
EP8.1: Bantering with Bannon [Rebroadcast]
Dec 30, 2021 – 1:18:47
EP44: Gamify Everything (ft. Sebastian Deterding, Paris Martineau & Mostafa Henaway)
Dec 17, 2021 – 49:12
EP43: The Dumbest Books of 2021 (ft. Luke Savage, Matt McManus, Lyta Gold, Daniel Bessner & David Moscrop)
Dec 10, 2021 – 53:45

Recent Reviews

David in Chattanooga

Essential

One of the podcasts I value most. Nearly every episode is exactly on a topic sorely needed but missing or avoided by most of those attempting to understand and discuss what is happening in our politics, our universities, our lives. Rigorously researched and artfully written, Darts and Letters/Cited is essential to me: one good source of meaning and even help against overwhelming circumstance. David Andrews Sewanee, TN
listener_kc

Excellent

I’m already missing Cited, but this podcast is also excellent. Great interviews and interesting topics. Always logical with a healthy dose of reality that can often be missing in the idealism of the progressive wing. If you’re looking for a podcast to make you think, this is it.