Diabolical Lies

Mar 09 2025 17 ep. 75 mins 198
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Hot Chicks, Wings, and the Liquidation Sale of America

Mar 09 2025 45 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.comIn this conversation…What does it mean to “run the government like a business” in America today? In today’s episode, we scrutinize the fetishization of “efficiency” and the American businessman, the role this valorization played in the ascendancy of our current “leaders,” and what

Lily Phillips & the Politics of Sex Work

Feb 23 2025 134 mins  
In this conversation…Let’s get spicy, y’all! Today, we’re talking about the politics of consensual sex work, through the lens of a recent, extremely viral documentary that covered sex worker and OnlyFans influencer Lily Phillips’s 100-men-in-a-day sex stunt. If you haven’t watched the documentary yet, we’ve embedded it in this post for your easy viewing pleasure. And

What is a Woman? The Shifting Gender Aesthetics of the "New Right"

Feb 09 2025 30 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.comIn this conversation…A woman’s appearance has always been inseparable from her message in politics. So what does this latest, conspicuous shift signal? In this episode, we’re taking a question the New Right is obsessed with—what is a woman?—and answering it by analyzing the aesthetic tr

A Tale of Two Algorithms

Jan 26 2025 93 mins  
A few days ago, shortly after the TikTok ban was lifted, we recorded this conversation about the dueling algorithmic histories of TikTok and Facebook, the strange mirror world they provide for us to understand US vs. China sentiment, and the crack-in-the-universe moment that RedNote offered the world.In the time since we recorded, a few major news stories have broken:* TikTok users

Luigi Mangione & the Making of an American Terrorist

Jan 12 2025 26 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.comThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit diabolicallies.substack.com.Since the passage of the US PATRIOT Act in 2001, the culture of anti-terrorism in the United States has proven fertile ground for at once legitimizing a threat as extreme and delegitimizing the context which

How "Reactionary Feminism" Infiltrated the Mainstream

Dec 29 2024 142 mins  
Feminism is in the midst of an identity crisis: What is feminism? What does it mean to “be a feminist”? The gap has created an opening for a few media-savvy writers and thinkers to refashion the movement in their own image: a “women’s rights” movement that uses anti-capitalist language to make things like unprotected sex and unpaid labor look like liberation.For notes, ci

Evie Magazine, Ballerina Farm, & the Yassification of Christian Nationalism

Dec 15 2024 44 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.comIn this conversation...Evie Magazine bills itself as a “Cosmopolitan for conservatives,” but is that the best description for this editorial mission? Spoiler alert: No! Today’s sprawling conversation explores every nook and cranny of this dumpster fire of a “media company,” as well as t

"The Men Are Not All Right"...Right?

Dec 01 2024 101 mins  
In this conversation…Caro & Katie dive headfirst into the “male loneliness epidemic,” “the boys are not all right,” “feminism hurts men” discourse to understand which right-wing think tank’s research suddenly indicates The Men™️ are struggling, its curious timing, and the frustrating tendency of all the coverage to completely gloss over the core problem.Referenc

What a Viral Tradwife Rant Reveals About Gen Z's Alt-Right

Nov 17 2024 30 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.diabolicalliespod.comIn this conversation…Caro & Katie engage in a close read of the viral Free Press debate TikTok that stars a young woman angry she can’t live on a homestead, and accidentally discover it’s uniquely emblematic of the sort of right-wing radicalization we’re witnessing en masse in the United

Abortion: Say It With Your Chest

Nov 03 2024 97 mins  
In this conversation…Caro & Katie talk about abortion in America, starting with leaders in the evangelical church recognizing it as a political tool in the 1970s with which to gain power in the face of unwanted desegregation, to the profound discomfort that modern politicians across the spectrum express about the subject—that is, until maybe, right now. It turns out that Americ