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March 2025

The source of my morality
Looking at the source of my own morality.
5
Sense and Senility
Yasha and I recently talked to Alexander Melamid, one of the few high priests of the art world who talks shit openly about it and got disenchanted with…
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Evgenia
4
Signal, the CIA's wokest deepest state chat app
I know no one cares about opsec and privacy anymore, but bear with me…because I feel like I gotta comment on this given that I have such a long history…
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Yasha Levine
19
Nobody likes being a loser w/Will Menaker
Evgenia and I talk to Will Menaker about the left-right whiplash of the post-Bernie years.
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
19
1:30:26
Russian films about Soviet collapse
...made in the 1990s about the 1990s.
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Evgenia
6
Russians Against Politics
Since we’ve had a lot of new subscribers lately, I wanted to repost the very first podcast episode Evgenia and I recorded back in 2020.
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Yasha Levine
Art Church w/Alexander Melamid
We talk with Alexander Melamid, the most famous Soviet-American artist of his generation.
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Evgenia
 and 
Yasha Levine
5
1:35:59
The nihilism trap
The race for New York City mayor is heating up.
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Yasha Levine
7
AGAINST NIHILISM LIVE!
We’re doing a live event in NYC at the KGB Bar — NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS AGAINST NIHILISM.
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Yasha Levine
Vibe Shifts w/Mark Ames
We talk to our friend Mark Ames about nihilism, cynicism, culture wars, Red Scare, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Russia of the 1990s, and the vibe…
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Yasha Levine
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Evgenia
36
1:49:59
Against Nihilism
Politics in the age of stupidity. Against the senile vibe shift.
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Evgenia
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