Brutal South

<p>We're gathered here today to speak of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a tremendous beautiful bird that is gone forever ... or so some people think.</p><p>Hey. Welcome to Episode 29 of the Brutal South Podcast. The...

<p>My guest on the pod is Michael Smallwood (@mikeluvsgushers), an actor, director, podcaster, and screenwriter from Charleston. He recently appeared in the biggest movie role of his career as the character Marcus in...

<p>Welcome back to the Brutal South podcast, Episode 27.</p><p>I guess this was inevitable: We're going to talk about critical race theory, both as an actual framework for understanding the world and as a mostly...

<p>My guest is Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist fighting against war, gun violence, and the death penalty. I got to meet him recently at a death penalty abolitionists' meeting in Columbia, S.C., and he graciously...

<p>Quick note in case you missed it: I’m trying to decide on a T-shirt design for Brutal South, and my friend CJ Bones came up with three metal-inspired logos to choose from. Click here to check them out and let me know...

<p>My guest is Amethyst Ganaway, a chef and writer from North Charleston, South Carolina.</p><p>Amethyst has been working in the restaurant industry for about 12 years, and during the past year she got deep into...

<p>My guest is Gardnsound, an Atlanta-based electronic music composer who is also one of my oldest and truest friends.</p><p>I know him as Gardner. As long as I’ve known him, he has been a restless experimenter, from...

<p>My guests are Bristow Marchant (@BristowatHome) and David Travis Bland (@dtravisbland), reporters at The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. They and their colleagues went public with the formation of The State News...

<p>My guest is Pastor Jim Conrad of Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. His church was, until recently, one of the only Southern Baptist churches that openly accepted and affirmed lesbian, gay, and...

<p>My guests on today’s podcast are Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent of the band Shovels & Rope.</p><p>Most of the songs featured in this episode are from their latest album, Busted Jukebox Vol. 3, which you can buy at...

<p>My podcast guest is Chuck Johnson, a musician who composes meditative songs on the pedal steel guitar.</p><p>Chuck grew up in North Carolina, where he heard pedal steel in the context of country music. After building...

<p>My guest is Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell), architecture critic at The New Republic and proprietor of the McMansion Hell blog. Like me, Kate grew up in the South, and like me, she is a defender of brutalist...

<p>Halfway through John Warner’s new book about higher education, it dawned on me that I was reading a manifesto.</p><p>The book is called Sustainable. Resilient. Free. The Future of Public Higher Education (2020, Belt...

<p>Michael Baumann (@MichaelBaumann), staff writer for The Ringer, joins me for the second annual Wikipedia Holiday Special.</p><p>Mike and I met at the University of South Carolina, and one of the ways we’ve stayed in...

<p>I convened this emergency podcast shortly after the release of Taylor Swift’s evermore, the out-of-nowhere follow-up to folklore. Joining me on the panel are my colleagues Michael Majchrowicz (@mjmajchrowicz) and Ari...