WMC Live #485: Elegy for The White House. (Original Airdate 11/2/2025)

Robin mourns the destruction of the East Wing by Trump. Special Guest Shazia Rafi plots an alternative "states' rights" campaign to save democracy.

Robin reports on the second "No Kings" protests across the US, and discusses remarkable primates with special guest and primate scientist Dr. Shirley Strum, author of Echoes Of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and Nature.

Robin re-analyzes Ancient Greece and the (feminist?!) Myceneans. Special Guest: Cécile Simmons, an online misogyny expert and author of CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It.

Robin talks with special guest Dr. Heidi Sevestre. Also, Heartening Words.

Robin discusses The US Court System and the First Amendment with New York State Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) Emily Jane Goodman.

Robin on how pornography defined US morality. Guest: Judith Giesberg, author of Sex and the Civil War.

Robin's summer sum-up. Guest: Evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman on her book, The Origin of Language, positing childcare (!) is why we speak.

Robin dissects procrastination, and discusses poetry and writing with her special guest, the writer Sandra Cisneros.

Robin revisits the feminist campaign against violent pornography and finds new and harrowing statistics—yet new and hopeful developments. Guest: Dr. Gail Dines of Culture Reframed and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.

Robin discusses Ms. Magazine with her special guest, Executive Editor Kathy Spillar: the magazine's reporting, tactics, strategy, and inspiration in these dark times. Robin reflects on what "Insurrectionist" really means.