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Rose Lyddon joins the pod to discuss martyrdom, the desire to die, the death of academia, the future of Substack, Simone Weil, Augustine, & Teresa of Avila.Check out her Substack https://roselyddon.substack.com/Check out Stephen's work on wanting to die young https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/i-cant-stop-fantasizing-about-my and on Augustine & Teresa https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/the-sexual-personae-of-augustineFollow us at https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Marwa al-Sabouni joins the pod to discuss mosque architecture, urban design, the limits of modernism, and what the West gets wrong about Islam. Check out her book https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/mosque-an-architects-exploration-of-form-faith-and-meaning-hardcover And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Matthew Vines joins the pod to discuss his NYTimes article about how queer theory is ruining everything for the gays. Check out his article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion/queer-gay-rights.html And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Catherine Liu joins the pod to talk about trauma scripts, AOC and other fragile millennials, Laschian narcissism, the identitarian co-opting of the Left, and how to get over yourself.  Check out her new book ‘Traumatized’ https://www.versobooks.com/products/3263-traumatized?srsltid=AfmBOopbQa25m4AqVp8AJGGAEUOiQwk8D6B1dJbtl6cKPEPz6w4Wcc1M  And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Stephen joins Juan Martinez and Juan Merchan on El Matiz podcast to talk about the evils of air conditioning, Baudrillard's love (and my hate) of hyperreal America, Lorca’s Poems, Shakira, the terror of shopping malls, the Floridian hellscape, and Canadian cathedrals. For more, check out https://elmatizdifusion.substack.com/ https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/take-this-lorca-waltz https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/american-portals-reaching-the-alchemical https://www.theblaze.com/lifestyle/my-crusade-against-air-conditioning

Steven Christoforou joins the pod to talk about Orthobros, internet Orthodoxy, Charles Taylor, cradle ethnic Orthodox, and other Orthodox things.Check out FOCUS https://focusnorthamerica.org/ And Steven's page https://stevenchristoforou.substack.com/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Jacob Savage joins the pod to discuss why it's so hard to be a white [passing] cisgender millennial male writer, and why you should feel bad for us. Jk. We discuss everything from DEI in publishing to our favorite dude writers. Check out is work here https://substack.com/@jacobksavage And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Nick Leeper SJ joins the pod to discuss his recent art exhibit, Andy Warhol, being a Jesuit, what constitutes sacrilege, and plays a round of "hot or not" with us. Check out his work https://www.nkleepersj.com/ Read Stephen's review of his exhibit https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/nick-leeper-sj-isnt-pissing-on-the?utm_source=publication-searchAnd follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Luke Burgis joins the pod to discuss his new book 'The One and the Ninety-Nine', the tribalism of the culture wars, internet Catholicism, the loss of agency, and Dorothy Day. Get a copy of his book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250373038/theoneandtheninetynine/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Julie Bindel joins the pod to discuss her book "Lesbians: Where are we now?", the gay man vs. lesbian rivalry, UK vs US cultural politics, TERFdom, conversion therapy, and more. Check out her work https://juliebindel.substack.com/ And follow our Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Lucian Wintrich joins the pod to talk about Twinks for Trump, his congressional campaign, the importance of engaging with rather than reacting against your ideological ops, & the excesses of contrarianism. Check out his page here https://wintrichfornewyork.com/ And follow cracks in pomo here https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/

Jack from the Book Club From Hell pod joins us to discuss why he loves reading books so much, and his suggestions for people who want to get back into reading. Check out his pod here https://bookclubfromhell.substack.com/

Joe Enabnit and Jonah Howell attempt to convince Stephen that lifting is not morally reprehensible. Read Stephen's piece against lifting https://nopomo.substack.com/p/you-should-not-have-time-to-bulk And Joe's piece in favor of lifting https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/archetyping-at-the-gym Follow us on Substack ⁠https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/⁠

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely to have noticed the discourse has been set abuzz with talk of a crisis of masculinity. While the debate is out on whether the real culprit is feminism, toxic masculinity, the Nanny State, or automation, men are indeed struggling to find themselves. The rates of loneliness, drug abuse, and suicide among men have reached record highs. In response, a proliferation of “manosphere” influencers has cropped up, selling a variety of remedies: Nietzschean vitalism, a return to the Bronze Age with a stoic regimen of powerlifting and renouncing seed oils, going to Latin Mass and finding yourself a tradwife. Gender norms, they tell us, have been muddied by the waters of relativism and so-called theories of performativity. Yet their vision of recovering real gender norms feels painfully superficial, even LARP-y. What is masculinity, at its core? And how can we—men and women—begin to recover what it means to embrace our embodiment, in all of its glory and fragility? Few would think to look to the example of Pier Paolo Pasolini—a queer, Marxist, lapsed-Catholic writer and filmmaker—for answers. But cracking through conventional thinking is kinda what we do best at cracks in pomo. Eve Tushnet joins Cracks in Pomo for a live discussion at KGB.

Father James Martin SJ joins the pod to discuss his new book ‘Work in Progress,’ polarization in the Catholic Church, trad zoomers, intergenerational dialogue, and his encounter with Camille Paglia.  Follow us on Substack https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/  Check out Fr. Martin's book https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/jamesmartin