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In Bed With The Right

von Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

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On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

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  1. Episode 163 -- 2026 Halloween Film Spooktacular

    In honor of spooky season, Moira and Adrian once again did homework assigned by the podcast's Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/InBedWiththeRight)-supporters, analyzing two two classic horror films and what they say about gender, sexuality a

  2. Episode 162 -- Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes

    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

  3. Episode 161 -- The Lord of the Rings with Michael Lutz

    "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 trilog

  4. Episode 160 -- Science Fiction Fandom, Part 2

    Moira and Adrian continue their deep dive into science fiction fandom. After spending Episode I with the inner workings of right wing fandom (also pod racing), they now delve into the kinds of fan objects right wing fans congregate around.

  5. Episode 159 -- Science Fiction Fandom, Part 1

    This fall, Moira and Adrian will take a deep dive into right wing fans. In recent years, right wingers from Milo Yiannopoulos to Elon Musk have leveraged science fiction fandom to stoke media outrage and build onramps to the far right. But

  6. Episode 157 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Milo Yiannopoulos with Matt Bernstein

    For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Bernstein of A Bit Fruity (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-bit-fruity-with-matt-bernstein/id1693739175) to talk about the resistible rise and precipitous fall of Milo Yiannopoulo

  7. Episode 156 -- Dolly Parton

    For this episode, Moira takes Adrian on a trip into the long, many-colored history of the iconic Dolly Parton (1946-2026), from the Tennessee mountains where life was as peaceful as a baby's sigh, via Nashville to a corner office where you

  8. Episode 155 -- Elon Musk with Ben Tarnoff

    For this episode, Moira and Adrian talk about Chief Creep Elon Musk, his worldview and the role gender plays in his politics with Ben Tarnoff (https://www.bentarnoff.com/), co-author of the recent Muskism (https://bookshop.org/p/books/muski

  9. Episode 154 -- Live from San Francisco, it's How to Become a Silicon Valley Creep (in 10 Easy Steps), Part 2

    Here it is, the second half of our IBWTR live show, recorded with 250 of our closest friends at Swedish-American Hall in San Francisco! In it, Moira and Adrian continue their deep-ish dive into tech creep masculinity, and how it came to be

  10. Episode 153 -- Live from San Francisco, it's How to Become a Silicon Valley Creep (in 10 Easy Steps), Part 1

    Last month, Moira and Adrian appeared at Swedish-American Hall in San Francisco for a special IBWTR live show. In it, they took a deep and snarky dive into tech creep masculinity, and how it came to be so dominant at the present moment. Thi

  11. Episode 152 -- Carl Schmitt, Part 2

    With a special shout to all our friends/enemies, we are back with Part 2 of our deep dive into Carl Schmitt, Nazi jurist, total weasel, and dead-fish-painting-hater! This episode follows Schmitt through the year 1933, his precarious positio

  12. Episode 151 -- Jane Eyre

    In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the genesis and long shadow of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), from the book's leery reception in its own day to its rediscovery as both a feminist text and as a possible site for a critique

  13. Episode 150 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Politics of Plagiarism Hunting and the Death of Jason Arday

    In the wake of the death of Jason Arday many listeners asked us to comment on the media campaign against him. We hesitated, but felt we really needed to talk about this case -- about the allegations themselves, what became of them, and the

  14. Episode 149 -- Carl Schmitt, Part 1

    [REMINDER: We're less than 10 days away from the In Bed with the Right Live Show in San Francisco: August 27, 7:30 pm Swedish American Hall. Tickets are going fast, but still available -- get yours here (https://www.ticketweb.com/event/how-

  15. Episode 148 -- JD Vance's Communion with Jamelle Bouie

    Weird troll and sitting Vice President JD Vance's last memoir, 2016's Hillbilly Elegy, made him a household name and a darling with some surprising corners of American letters and politics. His new memoir-slash-retread, Communion: Finding M

  16. Episode 147 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Lesbian Nuns

    For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through hundreds of years of history in search of lesbian nuns -- and in search of the various meanings that were attached to the lesbian nun throughout the centuries in a patriarchal system. Walk-on cam

  17. Episode 146 -- Gender and Road Trips with Sarah Marshall

    In America when the sun goes down and we sit in our apartments recording our podcast, watching the long, long skies over Oakland and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the East Coast, and all that road

  18. Episode 145 -- Third Anniversary Mailbag Spectacular

    To celebrate 3 years of podcasting together, we are going through some amazing questions our listeners posed! The results ran a little long, and so this is only the first part of the resulting mailbag episode (this one is main feed, the nex

  19. Episode 144 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- J.K. Rowling

    For the third installment of our TERF Island series (https://www.patreon.com/InBedWiththeRight/posts/episode-133-terf-157371930?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link), we use the

  20. Episode 143 -- Joan Didion's California

    It's Hot California Summer over here on In Bed with the Right! For this first installment (of probably three), Moira and Adrian delve into the work of noted California-native and inveterate California-explainer Joan Didion, whose conservati

  21. Episode 142 -- Nancy Mace

    For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the troubled and troubling story of congresswoman Nancy Mace -- a moderate who first became MAGA, then a vicious transphobe, and then became a gendered apostate from that movement (while remainin

  22. Episode 140 -- Lena Dunham

    For this episode, Adrian and Moira discuss the life, career and (many, many) opinions of Lena Dunham -- creator of Girls, writer of memoirs and the face that launched a million think-pieces back in the 2010s. They touch on the gendered atta

  23. Episode 139 -- Mifepristone

    In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the history of Mifepristone. Developed in France in the 1980s, this medication (which, together with Misoprostol, is used to end pregnancies) has been a flashpoint in Europe and the United States

  24. Episode 138 -- The Politics of Plagiarism-Hunting

    In this episode, Adrian walks Moira through the strange politics of plagiarism hunting -- an (initially non-partisan) German preoccupation that became another line of attack in the right wing assault on higher education in the United States

  25. Episode 137 -- Catching Up with the Cinema of Cancellation

    For a while now (though mostly on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/InBedWiththeRight)), Moira and Adrian have examined a strange canon of films and texts about. powerful people being taken down by forces of social justice. Many of these tak

  26. Episode 136 -- Marilyn Monroe

    For this episode, Moira guides Adrian through the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe, and the role gender played in all three. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926 -- so her centennial is coming up in

  27. Episode 134: Natural Law

    In this episode Moira and Adrian discuss the natural law tradition -- its origins, its long varied history, the many uses to which it has been put, and the way conservatives are trying to revive it in our own day.

  28. Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"

    In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibboleth in certain far-right spaces. But how serious are those championing the cause? In this e

  29. Episode 131 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Dining, Flavortowns and Gender

    For this episode, Adrian and Moira talk about gender and food -- specifically about the figure of the chef, visible and invisible labor and masculinity. Their main exemplar is Guy Fieri, the self-declared Mayor of Flavortown, but they also

  30. Episode 130 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902). Famous as a pioneering feminist intellectual and crusader for women's suffrage, Stanton is today also remembered for the racism and anti-immigran

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