In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
In Bed With The Right

On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

  1. Episode 68 -- Republican Makeup with Jessica DeFino

    23 HR AGO

    Episode 68 -- Republican Makeup with Jessica DeFino

    When it comes to the protagonists of MAGA world, they -- like Roxette circa 1990 -- have THE LOOK. You know the one: hair that rises and crests like a mountain range, lips that are strangely beige and eyes that really show off how dead the person is on the inside. How did this style come to define the modern conservative aesthetic? What are its influences? What are its messages? Jessica DeFino (of The Review of Beauty fame) stops by In Bed with the Right to help Moira and a very lost Adrian make some sense of these and other questions.

    39 min
  2. Episode 67 -- Project 1933, Part I: January to March 15

    1 APR

    Episode 67 -- Project 1933, Part I: January to March 15

    Germany 1933 is having a bit of a moment. Which made us at In Bed with the Right decide to explore that year in detail. In this series, Adrian and Moira tell the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. We will be going month by month for these episodes, but this first installment cheats a little bit and covers January 1 to March 15.

    1h 30m
  3. Episode 65 -- "So Long, Pamela Paul" with Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri

    25 MAR

    Episode 65 -- "So Long, Pamela Paul" with Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri

    Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri of If Books Could Kill visit In Bed with the Right to talk about the life, times and very, very milquetoast opinions of Pamela Paul, who recently departed from her perch as the New York Times columnist Bluesky loves to hate. Paul emblematizes many aspects of public discourse over the last 5-10 years -- from the emergence of "reactionary centrism" to the renewed freakouts over campus speech, from the panic over trans kids to Gen X's drift to the right. Also this one has an airhorn.

    1h 8m

  4. 18 MAR

    Episode 64: Whither the Preachers? With Kristin Kobes Du Mez

    Moira and Adrian welcome historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Jesus and John Wayne) to talk about what happens to conservative "preacher" masculinity in the age of swaggering, crass and often libertine sexuality.

    51 min
  5. Episode 62: AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic with Roland Meyer

    11 MAR

    Episode 62: AI Slop and the New Fascist Aesthetic with Roland Meyer

    Why have our new right-wing overlords taken such a shine to chintzy, shiny AI slop? What is persuasive about these phony, artless, slightly desperate images? How do they originate, and how do they circulate? For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Roland Meyer, who is a professor of digital cultures and arts at the University of Zurich and the University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. If you're trying to picture the kinds of image they're discussing, it might be helpful to check out Roland's huge thread on Bluesky. And if you're trying to follow along with our discussion of specific images, we have collected a bunch of the examples we discuss in the episode here.

    1h 15m
  6. Episode 60: Emergency Episode: The German Elections

    28 FEB

    Episode 60: Emergency Episode: The German Elections

    Germany voted for a new parliament last Sunday, and if you weren't ready for the words "far right" "Germany" and "20% of the vote" to pop up on your doom bingo, well, then you don't know 2025. Journalist Annika Brockschmidt stops by the pod to talk Adrian and Moira through Germany's political system, how the election results will impact it, and what the results suggest about Germany's future.

    1h 17m
  7. Episode 58: The Pelicot Trial with Manon Garcia

    18 FEB

    Episode 58: The Pelicot Trial with Manon Garcia

    TW: This episode is almost entirely about a horrifying case of sustained and organized rape. On December 19, 2024 a court in Avignon, France convicted Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men of rape. It was the conclusion to a spectacular case and trial that galvanized (parts of) France. The victim, Gisèle Pelicot, chose to allow the trial to be public, flipping the script on the way France had thus far metabolized #MeToo: "shame", as Gisèle Pelicot put it, "has changed sides." Philosopher Manon Garcia attended the proceedings in Avignon, and now speaks with Moira and Adrian about what the case says about patriarchy, misogyny, masculinity and collective memory.

    1h 8m
  8. Episode 57: Mark Zuckerberg

    11 FEB

    Episode 57: Mark Zuckerberg

    Moira and Adrian delve into the career and political trajectory of Mark Zuckerberg. From Facemash to The Facebook to the Metaverse to putting on an absurd amount of sunscreen, they trace Mark Zuckerberg's (and Silicon Valley's) complicated relationship to gender. They explore how data, platforms, innovation and disruption, and guiding Silicon Valley figures like the genius and the drop-out are gendered, and how Zuckerberg's trajectory both reflects this gendered hierarchy and its breakdown. [You can find Adrian's book What Tech Calls Thinking here.]

    1h 6m
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On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

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  • Creator
    Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    58
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan 2023
  • Show Website
    In Bed With The Right

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