WMC Live #486: Across Species. (Original Airdate 11/9/2025)

Robin welcomes noted classicist Sarah Ruden about her witty, powerful new book, Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History Of Bad Ideas About Women.

Robin discusses the omnipresence of male supremacy with special guest Soraya Chemaly, the author of All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, and finds expectable war crimes.

Robin talks with old friend, long-time political activist, Yippie, and WITCH Nancy Kurshan about her forthcoming book, Levitating The Pentagon: and Other Uplifting Stories. Plus, revelations about the Epstein Files.

Robin analyzes off-year elections, and welcomes back Laura Bates, who discusses AI as well as her just-out book, The New Age Of Sexism.

Robin talks cybersecurity with special guest Irina Tsukerman, and shares an astonishing scientific anomaly.

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.