No Easy Answers

Jules introduces his latest podcast project he is producing and at times cohosting - The Vanquished, hosted by Anders Lee (Pod Damn America) Listen to The Vanquished here: https://pod.link/1735216373 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

In this episode, Jules drops the first episode of Season 2 of The Labor Link Podcast, hosted by Judy Gearhart. This is one of several other podcast projects produced by Jules. More info about The Labor Link is available at www.laborlinkpodcast.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Hey Y'all, One of the hosts on a different pod I co-host sat down with me to discuss songwriting, my latest album, and the release show I recently performed at for Whiskey Clear in January. Hope you all will enjoy this episode. :) Love, Jules --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Hey Y'all! I'm back again with a long episode about the new album, detailing the poetry, stories, and meaning behind the songs, along with snarky remarks unpalatable for the other project channels. If you have not already, I'd be both honored and delighted if you checked out the new album at the link below: Listen Here: Jules Taylor - Whiskey Clear Also, I had said at the top of the episode that I would play back the album in its entirety, but let's be real here - that would make this episode too long and I think listeners would prefer to keep the deliberate listening of music and podcasts separate. Like you come to me for chats and not to play music but I would also like to give you the option to take in my music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Hey Y'all, I am still on hiatus here on this platform, but I wanted to take a moment and introduce a different podcast that I am a co-host on. This is a really special project I was invited to spearhead with my friends Jimmy Willden (Director, Songwriter, Film Composer) and Garrett Wieland (Songwriter and Old West Fanatic). We are about 11 episodes in at this point, and I am finding that I fit in a lot of philosophical concepts there as they relate to songwriting. This is such a joy for me to take part in, and since there was the tiniest bit of overlap, I've decided to give y'all a taste here in hopes some of you will make it over to the Corpus Christi Songwriter Podcast Feed. And! I have a new album out, available now at all streaming links. Click here to listen to Whiskey Clear New episodes coming in a little while. See y'all soon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

GoFundMe for Relocating Kristen's Family to Virginia WKRN - Mom of trans teen moving out of Tennessee after new law banning gender-affirming care Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator. Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website Art by Kristen Madison on my Mind True Stories Let Loose on Soundcloud Performances by Kristen Performance at the Tennessee Women's Theater Festival Other stories by Kristen https://youtu.be/hrDjfiTVeEA https://youtu.be/3b7xOcLbJdo https://youtu.be/6xewdFiWmsY https://youtu.be/Jal7Ry6OX4E https://youtu.be/Habm2XPsjVs Things we mentioned during the conversation Wikipedia page for Nellie Bly National Women's History      Museum Nellie Bly Max Alvarez's Podcast: https://bit.ly/workingpod Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World' --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Music provided by: Self-Taut  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

  We’re joined by Daniel Tutt once again, and this time we’re speaking about his newest work- Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation.  Daniel is a professor and philosopher of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought, and he is the convener of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and politics, a public learning platform that offers study groups, seminars, and podcasts.    Daniel Tutt – Twitter, Patreon, Website Daniel’s podcast – Jouissance Vampires Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics on YouTube Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt Conver/gences presents “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” for Zer0 Books and No Easy Answers   Consider tossing us a buck or two to keep the lights on:   No Easy Answers on Patreon   And send us your feedback noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com   And consider leaving us a 5 star review.  I said consider it I didn’t mean actually do it.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Dr. Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Media Freedom (Pluto, 1995) and Imaginary Futures (Pluto, 2007).  His other important writings  include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism, The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New, and today with Jules he is discussing his prophetic 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology".    In the essay, Dr. Barbrook and Andy Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 90s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism.  This new amalgamated ideology combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired Magazine to promulgate their ideas.  This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.    The original promise of the Californian Ideology was that computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destinies. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or change.   Additional Info/Links Below…   The Californian Ideology pdf  Dr. Richard Barbrook - Twitter, Website, GoodReads Imaginary Futures:  From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook Support this podcast and unlock bonus content: www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Jules sits down with professor of economics and author Rob Larson to discuss Friedrich Hayek's work The Road to Serfdom. Additional Links / Info Below… Rob Larson is a Professor of Economics and author of Bleakonomics and Capitalism vs. Freedom from Zero Books. He writes for a variety of venues including Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs, and Dollars & Sense. Rob Larson on Twitter, Goodreads Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley by Rob Larson Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom by Rob      Larson Bleakonomics:      A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and      Environmental Destruction by Rob Larson "Bill Gates’s      Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket" by Rob Larson for Jacobin "Trillions and Trillions: The      Selective Blindness on Endless Economic Growth" by Rob Larson for Current Affairs Permanent Links Below Follow us on Social Media - Twitter Send us a message -      noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Support this podcast on Patreon --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

In this special crossover episode, Jules sits down with the guys from the Decode cast to discuss John Rawls. Additional links / info below… · @cnoumena on Twitter · @yagamben on Twitter · Decode Podcast on Twitter · Decode podcast episode on Paul Virilio · Strategy of Deception by Paul Virilio · A Theory of Justice by John Rawls · Political Liberalism by John Rawls · The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere by Todd May Permanent Links below… --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Just a quick update on the state of the show and what's going on moving forward  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Jules talks about the current war in Ukraine and how the Iranian uprisings could further complicate things.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Independent scholar and researcher Wahid Azal returns to the show to share his insights on the current Iranian uprising and what it means for our contemporary geopolitical conflicts. Additional links / recommendations… Wahid Azal Twitter, Blog, YouTube A Feminist Revolution in Iran by Wahid Azal for Counterpunch No Easy Answers - Episode 48      with Wahid Azal Women's rights movement in      Iran on      Wikipedia Permanent Links Below… Follow us on      Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the      discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice      message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us      on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off      Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments,      concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music for this episode: Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod Link:     https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Dan Arel joins Jules to speak about digital privacy in a world post-Roe v. Wade. If you are even in need of an illegal abortion, this conversation will help you cover your digital trail online. This conversation applies beyond those in need of illegal medical procedures. It should benefit anyone looking to guard their privacy online, including organizers, sex workers, journalists, and more. Additional Links below… Dan Arel on Twitter, webpage, thinkprivacy.ch Digital Privacy articles on Startpage.com Dan Arel's Privacy Checklist Dan Arel at Startpage.com "First Step Towards Privacy: Design Your Own Threat Model" Books by Dan Arel Parenting Without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical, and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma, The Secular      Activist: A How-To Manual for Protecting the Wall between Church and State Startmail, Proton, Euki, Startpage, BitWarden, Semiphemeral, Jumbo Send a message to Dan Arel Permanent Links Below… Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod Link:     https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

In this roundtable discussion, Mel, Kris, Max, Jules, and Frances speak to the concepts of 'revolutionary trauma' and how we might build a better world without replicating the same systems of oppression we struggle against. Additional links / About our Guests: Mel Buer - Twitter, Morning Riot Podcast, Website Max Alvarez - Twitter, Working People Podcast, The Real News Network, Website Francis Madeson - Twitter, Website, Cooperation Jackson Articles Kristofer Nivens - Twitter, Patreon Permanent Links Below… Follow us on      Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the      discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice      message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us      on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off      Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments,      concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music provided      by: Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod Link:    https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Jules sits down with Professor Matthew McManus to discuss his book "The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism". Thinkers discussed include Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, and many others. This is a conversation that traces the roots of reactionism all the way back to the French Revolution. Additional links below… Matthew McManus on Twitter The Rise of      Postmodern Conservatism by Matthew McManus Matthew McManus articles at Jacobin Matthew McManus articles at Areo Plastic Pills Podcast Matthew McManus on Academia.edu Permanent Links Below… Follow us on      Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the      discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice      message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us      on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off      Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments,      concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Outro music "Panda Punk Tongue" by Peelander-Z Music for this episode: Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod Link:   https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod Link:   https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

In this very special episode, Jules (@realjulestaylor) sits down with Brett (@RevLeftRadio) to have a long conversation about Aleksandr Dugin. This episode is a follow-up to Episodes 47 and 48 of No Easy Answers.  If you are interested in hearing interviews with Wahid Azal, an anti-imperialist Sufi Muslim who published a 2016 article about Dugin, check out Episode 48.   Additional Links Below... About Brett Twitter, podcasts (Rev Left Radio, Red Menace, Guerrilla History) If you must have a couple of links on Dugin, here they are:  Fascism, Borderless and Red Alexander Dugin speaking on the Ukraine conflict Dugin Eurasian Conference  Outro Music: https://bit.ly/julestaylorbio Music for this episode: Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod:    https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod:    https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage Permanent Links Below… Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us on      Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments, concerns,      criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com    --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

In part 2 of our ongoing series about Aleksandr Dugin, Jules Taylor sits down to speak with Wahid Azal, author of the 2016 Counterpunch article entitled "Dugin's Occult Fascism and the Hijacking of Left Anti-Imperialism and Muslim Anti-Salafism". Wahid wrote this article when he realized that Duginists were actively recruiting leftists and anti-imperialists, as well as anti-Salafist Shiʿi and Sunni Muslims. This conversation was eye-opening on numerous levels, but I want to be cautious here and remind folks that being an anti-fascist isn't not dangerous. Fascists, in general, are dangerous people, with a ravenous ideology who are not to be trifled with. Wahid currently lives in Australia, and he relocated there from Berlin for his safety and the safety of his daughter after his wife mysteriously passed away. This conversation is about more than Dugin. It's about being anti-fascist and calling it out when you see it and how there is a very real cost to doing that. It's also about the way shades of far-right ideology can muddy the water and how we lose comrades. My heart goes out to Wahid and his daughter, as it takes an incredible amount of bravery to keep sounding the alarm on all of this. Wahid's Article in Counterpunch About Wahid Azal… Blog   https://wahidazal303.blogspot.com/ Academia.edu  https://independent.academia.edu/NimaAzal Twitter https://twitter.com/wahidazal66 Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/nwahidazal/ Telegram @WahidAzal303 Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/c/wahidazal/ Permanent Links Below… Follow us on      Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the      discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice      message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us      on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off      Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments,      concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music provided      by: Self-Taut  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

With the recent invasion of Ukraine, it’s become clear that Putinism and Duginism have converged. Who is Aleksandr Dugin? And how is he relevant to Russia’s attempted invasion? Dugin is rumored to have the ear of Vladimir Putin, to be his advisor, and since Russia has a history of autocratic rulers being advised by mystical characters with long hair and unkempt facial hair, there is a tendency of folks dismissing this all together. But you know it makes sense, since Dugin is a prominent member of the largest political party in Russia and has acted as an advisor to the state duma in the past. In 1997, Aleksandr Dugin publishes a book called "The foundations of geopolitics: the geopolitical future of Russia". The cover of the book in at least one edition has an outline of the continents of Europe and Asia, with the symbol of 8 arrows, 4 of which point in the cardinal directions. The other arrows point in the directions of southwest, southeast, northwest, and northeast, and the symbolism of the Eurasian continent behind the outward expanding arrows leaves no question the intention of this book: this is a manifesto for Russian expansion. Additional Notes: Much of the information sited in this episode is taken from previous interview conducted on this show. We invite you to listen to our full interview with Professor Ronald Beiner (Episode 34) and Professor Benjamin Teitelbaum (Episode 30) to learn more about their books and the topic for this episode. --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

Cam Scott is a poet, musician, and local organizer from Winnipeg, and he's on the show to speak to us about an article he's written. We're talking about the 'freedom convoy' or 'trucker convoy' or whatever you'd like to call it. This conversation is about the difference between populist movements and peoples' movements, and why the left should be cautious when considering the use of populist politics, and why the convoy is not a workers' movement. Article: The Perils of Left Populism by Cam Scott About Cam Scott Cam Scott Twitter Additional links: ROMANS/SNOWMARE by Cam Scott On the Shoulders of the      Communists: The Reactionary Rise of the NDP by Cam Scott Reformist Radicalism by Cam Scott Below the Barricades: On      Infrastructure, Self-Determination, and Defense by Cam Scott Permanent links --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music for this episode: Lewis And Dekalb by Kevin MacLeod:     https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4989-lewis-and-dekalb Severe Tire Damage by Kevin MacLeod:     https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5004-severe-tire-damage "Fool" by Half Cocked --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support