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Anchored by Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that have shaped our minds and our world, to ask: How have we ended up here, and whom or what can we blame? compactmag.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchAnchored by Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that have shaped our minds and our world, to ask: How have we ended up here, and whom or what can we blame?
Blame Theory is hosted by Geoff Shullenberger. The show has published 22 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 2)" (31 May 2026, 88 minutes), "Blame the Frankfurt School? (Part 1)" (15 May 2026, 96 minutes), and "The Epstein Intellectual Complex" (2 March 2026, 98 minutes).
Blame Theory publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 78 minutes across 22 episodes.
Booking probability for Blame Theory is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Blame Theory requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Blame Theory's contact route on record: verified email.
Geoff Shullenberger hosts Blame Theory, a news podcast with 22 episodes published.
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<p>Ashley and Geoff discuss “The Concept of Enlightenment,” the first section of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment.</p><p>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers...
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<p>Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger discuss Geoff’s article “The Frankfurt School Myth,” A.J.A. Woods’s book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, and Ashley’s own gripes with the School.</p><p>This is a public...
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<p>Ashley Frawley joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss her essay, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Necrophilia—and Ours,” and the significance of Epstein’s interests in transhumanism, eugenics, and related subjects.</p><p>This is a...
<p>Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss the career and thought of the philosopher Nick Land, accelerationist, neoreactionary, and advocate of “paleo-liberalism.” Read Geoff’s recent profile of Land...
<p>Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger discuss the long afterlife of eugenics, from sociobiology and The Bell Curve to today's online right.</p><p>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
<p>In conversation with Geoff Shullenberger, Ashley Frawley explains how eugenic thinking and practices emerge out of the crisis of liberalism.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
<p>Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss Andrew Doyle’s new book The End of Woke, which Ashley reviewed in Compact.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers...
<p>Ashley Frawley joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss her Compact column, "How Society Got a Sex Change," and its relevance to the evolution of liberalism.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
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<p>Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley continue to explore the crisis of liberalism. They begin by discussing recent reversals around free-speech debates in the United States and the odd fact that ostensible post...
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<p>Liberalism is in crisis. Its parties and institutions are suffering one setback after another across the West, and forces described as “illiberal” are on the rise globally. But when did this crisis begin? Was...
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<p>Geoff and Ashley discuss the online war of the sexes prompted by a recent mass shooting, which Ashley wrote about last month. They then explore the deeper roots of the gendered blame game that often defines our...
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<p>Ashley Frawley, Compact’s new senior editor as well as a new co-host of Blame Theory, joins Geoff Shullenberger to explore how collective social and political problems have been blamed on individual psychic and...
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<p>Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new book We Have Never Been Woke. A great deal of discussion of wokeness attempts to trace it to the influence of certain thinkers and ideas...
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<p>Compact's Sohrab Ahmari joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss one of the most widely blamed thinkers of all time: Karl Marx. We consider why Republicans, all the way up to Donald Trump, are reviving anti-communist...
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<p>Writer David Shields joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new book and documentary How We Got Here. We ask whether postmodernists are to blame for our post-truth predicament and explore Trump's instinctive...
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<p>David Dudrick, professor of philosophy at Colgate University, joins Geoff to discuss his recent Compact essay "Why Foucault Couldn't Kill Sexuality." They discuss the misunderstandings around Foucault's History of...
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<p>Compact founding editor Sohrab Ahmari joins Geoff and Nina in this episode to examine Michel Foucault’s later work on biopolitics, governmentality, and economics. Did Foucault predict or even contribute to the...
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<p>This episode examines Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, vol. 1 and asks to what extent Foucault is to blame for contemporary progressive dogmas about sex, gender, and power.</p><p>Listen either here on Substack...
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<p>Anchored by our own Nina Power and Geoff Shullenberger, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that have shaped our minds and our world, to ask: How have we ended up here, and whom or what can we...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit compactmag.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Anchored by our own Nina Power and Geoff Shullenberger, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that...
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sociologist; author, Significant Emotions and Semiotics of Happiness, University of Kent
lecturer at New York University, Compact
Vice President of Frontline Workers, Florida real estate attorney
former Opinion Editor of the New York Post, Compact: A Radical American Journal
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