The Covert War on Christmas
Friday A/V Club: That time Orson Welles tried to assassinate St. Nick
Friday A/V Club
New Movie Lists Honor Jeanne Dielman and 2001, Snub TikTok
Friday A/V Club: Sight and Sound revises the film canon again.
The Ballad of Rachel Maddow, Eddie Chiles, and J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs
Friday A/V Club: One cable host's capacity for unearned smugness
The Hidden History of the Trillion Dollar Coin
Friday A/V Club: In 1992, it was a paramilitary America Firster who wanted to #MintTheCoin.
Governments Love a Media Cartel—As Long as They're in Control
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
Eldridge Cleaver: The Mormon Years
Friday A/V Club: A former Black Panther's winding path
What Really Happened to the Class of '68?
Friday A/V Club: The Yippies, the yuppies, and the ghosts of the '60s and '80s
G. Gordon Liddy: The Hollywood Years
Friday A/V Club: How a Watergate burglar spent the '80s
The Invisible Dystopia
Friday A/V Club: When the post-apocalyptic world looks a lot like the pre-apocalyptic world
That Time the Libertarian Party Debated the Private Ownership of Nuclear Weapons
Friday A/V Club: Great moments from the C-SPAN archive
Karl Hess: From Republican Speechwriter to New Left Radical to Libertarian Homesteader
Friday A/V Club: Daniel Tucker discusses his documentary Local Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas—and we also screen the movie itself.
The First Presidential Debates Featured Wax Dummies and Phonograph Records
Friday A/V Club: Long before Kennedy and Nixon, there were Bryan and Taft.
Monty Python Meets the Bishop
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian's British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
The Other '80s Blade Runner Movie
Friday A/V Club: Ridley Scott wasn't the only director who filmed a Blade Runner in the Reagan years.
The Possibly Pending Death of a Legendary Radio Station
Friday A/V Club: When Timothy Leary, Ayn Rand, and Big Mama Thornton shared a microphone
V.I. Lenin, Psychedelic Mushroom
Friday A/V Club: A prank from the final days of the Soviet Union
The Peace-Loving Military Robots' Plot
Friday A/V Club: That time NBC broadcast a radical Philip K. Dick fable to a 1950s audience
That Time Bernie Sanders Interviewed Some Punk-Rock Kids in a Mall
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
What If Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Had Been a Maoist Revolutionary Epic?
Friday A/V Club: Springtime for Mao
Before Lil Nas X Cut a Track with Billy Ray Cyrus, Jimmie Rodgers Was Recording with Louis Armstrong
Friday A/V Club: There's no such thing as "pure country music," because country music has always been a mix.
Mike Gravel: The Candidate of Anti-Imperialism, Direct Democracy, and Video Art
Friday A/V Club: The past and possibly future presidential candidate starred in some of the greatest, strangest campaign ads ever made.
The Daley Dynasty Is Dead, Again
Friday A/V Club: "It would be funny if heaven was just like the 11th Ward..."
The Great Opium Bonfire of 1914
Friday A/V Club: That time the authorities set 10,000 packages of opium, morphine, and cocaine on fire in San Francisco's Marshall Square
Henry Hazlitt Meets Peter Kropotkin's Daughter
Friday A/V Club: A little chat about Stalin
Orson Welles Defends the Freedom to Publish Gruesome Horror Comics
Friday A/V Club: A flimmaker fights a moral panic.
M*A*S*H Goes to the Junkyard
Friday A/V Club: The byproducts of a cultural juggernaut
The Confidence-Man
Friday A/V Club: Long before "fake news" was a cliché, Alan Abel was both inserting and exposing fakery in the news.
When Robin Leach Met John Waters
Friday A/V Club: Lifestyles of the Rich and Strange
The First Crackdown on Indecent Recordings
Friday A/V Club: Anthony Comstock and the bawdy cylinders
The Accidentally Libertarian Western
Friday A/V Club: Harpoon battles six-gun in Terror in a Texas Town.
What Do You Get if You Cross Red Dawn with a Cooking Show?
Friday A/V Club: The wild world of low-budget survivalist videos
Interviews with Some of America's Oldest People—in 1929
Friday A/V Club: Americans born before the Civil War speak on camera.
When the Censors Came for Jack Johnson's Fight Films
Friday A/V Club: The boxer who just got a posthumous presidential pardon was a central figure in one of the first battles over movie censorship.
This Just In: The Simpsons Is Still On the Air
Friday A/V Club: Feeling nostalgic for a show that technically is still around
When a Mash Note to a War Criminal Hit the Top 40
Friday A/V Club: My Lai's musical apologists
That Time the LaRouchies Won Two Primaries in Illinois
Friday A/V Club: Before there was Arthur Jones, there was Mark Fairchild.