Right Rising
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
54 episodes of Right Rising since the first episode, which aired on September 1st, 2020.
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Episode 71: How AI-Driven Male Fantasies Contributed to Anti-Migrant Riots and the "Far-Right Multitude," ft/ Beatriz Lopes Buarque
May 13th, 2026 | Season 2 | 1 hr 4 mins
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
Dr. Beatriz Buarque discusses her work elucidating the way that AI helps engender male fantasies used in anti-migrant riots, and what the left-wing social theories of the '80s and '90s got wrong about the future of capitalism.
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Episode 70: The Vortex of All Principles: Gender and the Far Right, ft. Eviane Leidig
April 17th, 2026 | Season 2 | 1 hr 21 mins
extremism, masculinity, right-wing, social media
Eviane Leidig joins the pod to talk about her recent work and update us on the Women of the Far Right
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Episode 69: Whiteness and Patriarchy on Alt-Tech Platforms, ft/ Jasmeet Bahia
April 1st, 2026 | Season 2 | 1 hr 3 mins
alt-tech, patriarchy, populism, right-wing
We chat about Dr. Bahia's dissertation work on Parler, and how to conceptualize the ways people react to and build communities around changes in social norms.
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Episode 68: Male supremacy, Far-Right Virility and AI, ft/ Greta Jasser
March 24th, 2026 | Season 2 | 44 mins 23 secs
ai, extremism, masculinity, right-wing
Sitting down with Dr. Greta Jasser to discuss the far right in Germany, alt-tech platforms, and the mainstreaming of the "Looksmaxxing" community in recent weeks
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Episode 67: Transnational Opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, ft. Lynda Gilby
February 25th, 2026 | Season 2 | 47 mins 51 secs
extremism, gender, populism, right-wing
This interview discusses the "anti-gender" opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, featuring a leading expert on transnational conservative movements
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Episode 66: Understanding the Brothers of Italy, ft. Valerio Alfonso Bruno
February 13th, 2026 | Season 2 | 1 hr 11 mins
extremism, history, political parties, right-wing
This podcast offers keen analysis of the party structure, strategy, and individuation of the Fratelli d'Italia, featuring expert Dr. Bruno.
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Episode 65: White Nationalism and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Contemporary Historiography, ft/ Curtis Dozier
January 27th, 2026 | Season 2 | 1 hr 8 mins
extremism, history, right-wing, white nationalism
Prof Cutis Dozier discusses his latest book, The White Pedestal on the way that white nationalists use Greco-Roman history for their own purposes, and how this effort is symptomatic of larger problems with the way that the Classics are read and understood in our society.
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Episode 64: "Rules for Reactionaries": Prof Lee Bebout on the Rhetoric of the Right
January 8th, 2026 | Season 2 | 40 mins 6 secs
extremism, racism, rhetoric, right-wing
Lee Bebout speaks with RR about his book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice about countering rhetorical strategies, behavioral patterns, and logical problems put forward by right wingers.
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Episode 62: Trump's Brazil Tariffs in Historical Context w/ Prof. Vinicius Bivar
September 18th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 7 mins
economics, extremism, populism, right-wing
This episode covers the economic history of Brazil's relationship with the United States, as well as developmentalist economics in light of Trump's recent, punitive tariffs against Brazil.
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Episode 61: The "Pro-Family" Movement: The Roots of the New Christian Right, ft. Chelsea Ebin
June 19th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 12 mins
christianity, extremism, history, right-wing
This discussion covers the rise of the "pro-family movement" through the linking of "single issues" into an illiberal political movement with a long-range determination to restore a mythical past of patriarchal peace and order.
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Episode 60: Trump's Carnival: Far-Right Social Media and Symbolic Disorder, ft. Bharath Ganesh
June 11th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 20 mins
extremism, fascism, philosophy, social media
This episode delves into a deeply philosophical analysis of far-right social media and the insurrectionary destabilization of symbolic hierarchies
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Episode 59: The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 2, ft/ William Allchorn
May 12th, 2025 | Season 2 | 57 mins 53 secs
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."
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Episode 58: The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 1, ft/ William Allchorn
May 9th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 1 min
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."
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Episode 57: The New Hard Right: Linguistic Anthropology and Far-Right Gender Trouble with Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett
April 29th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 12 mins
extremism, gender, hard right, new right
Drs Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett join the pod to discuss gender and the far right through the lens of linguistic anthropology. We discuss the "moral flavor" of hardness apropos their recent, in-depth study of the far-right web magazine Man's World, Christian Nationalist gender constructs, and how to square up that jawline!
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Episode 56: Geographic Analysis of the Far Right, ft. Jason Luger
April 12th, 2025 | Season 2 | 1 hr 12 mins
geography, online, phenomenology, right-wing
Dr. Jason Luger is a Human Geographer and a member of the Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group at Northumbria. His research focuses on the cultures, politics, contestations, and textures of urban space and place.
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Episode 55: Democracy Strikes Back
March 7th, 2025 | Season 2 | 53 mins 15 secs
australia, extremism, populism, right-wing
Dr. Mario Peucker joins the pod to discuss his efforts in developing robust institutions to combat hate and conspiracy theories alongside marginalized communities in Victoria, Australia