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Podcast · 44 min · Dec 7, 2023

54: Natal Conference 2023 Recap (opens in a new tab)

In this episode I give my take on this year’s Natal Conference, why we started it, what we learned from producing it, and what’s coming next. Meetups In preparation for NatalCon 2024, we are hosting EXIT/NatalCon meetups every month, in locations all over the country. EXIT members, NatalCon ticketholders, and paid newsletter subscribers get in free, with your plus-one.

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Podcast · 51 min · Aug 1, 2023

#52: Oppenheimer (opens in a new tab)

Oppenheimer is an intimate portrait of a sensitive young man who did nothing wrong. I could smell that something was off about this movie, so I went home and did some digging, and it turns out Oppenheimer was very obviously a Soviet spy. The problem is that half the academic and political establishment of the United States was in the tank for the Soviets at the time, so the question of what it meant to be a “traitor” was somewhat complicated.

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