In Bed With The Right

For this episode, you can lean on us, and you can afford the ticket, because we're heading back to Suffragette City! Moira walks a stupefied Adrian through the story of jiu-jitsu's surprising popularity in the West in the Edwardian era, and how eventually suffragettes used it to kick absolute ass. (If you'd like to see some of the images of suffragettes kick...

This week on In Bed with the Right, we're 19th-Centurymaxxing again! Moira takes Adrian on a wild ride through the origins and strange early history of bodybuilding. This one has everything: Eugenics! Swolitude! Prussians! World Fairs! Gymnastics!

In honor of spooky season, Moira and Adrian once again did homework assigned by the podcast's Patreon-supporters, analyzing two two classic horror films and what they say about gender, sexuality and gender conservatism in their era. This year's Patreon picks were 1987's The...

On October 25, 2026 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flavio Bolsonaro in the second round of Brazil's presidential election after trailing his opponent in the first round. In this episode, political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes (whose recent book Anatom...

"Tolkien is turning in his grave", Elon Musk tweeted on September 5, 2022 having watched (i.e. not watched) the first episode of Amazon's new series The Rings of Power. Whether it's a new Galadriel-centered TV-show, the Peter Jackson trilogies or just people writing fantasy a little differently: right wingers are very happy to claim J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as thei...