In Bed With The Right
In Bed With The Right

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

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On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

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Episode 113: The 2025 Daytime Cursties (with Michael Hobbes)
DEC 16, 2025
Episode 113: The 2025 Daytime Cursties (with Michael Hobbes)
<p>It's cold outside, the Holidays are here, and you know what that means: It's Cursed-Discourse Awards-Season, motherf@ckers! Not-even-close-to-live from a theatre miles away from the Dolby Theater, it's the Third Annual Cursties!!! For the third year in a row, Moira, Adrian and special guest Michael Hobbes give out awards for the most cursed discourses around sex and gender for 2025. Problem is: we've dealt with so many cursed discourses around sex and gender in 2025, and pretty much all cursed discourses seem to have with gender panic these days. And <em>In Bed with the Right</em> has covered so so so so many of them!</p><p>So we decided to narrow our noms to one particular genre of cursedness this year, and to present awards for ... drumroll ... achievements in anti-wokeness.! From queer tieflings to kids getting coddled in the 4th dimension, from socialist mayors (and not the one you're thinking of!) to French people teaching Americans how to islamophobia, to the world's creepiest Blue Man Group, this one has something for everybody!</p><p>Some links to articles we mention:</p><p>-- Matt Bernstein's in-depth episode on the long dark road of Debra Messing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_YMlTus7tg">can be found here</a></p><p>-- Adrian's <em>New Republic</em> article about a row over "islamogauchisme" in France <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/194678/grenoble-france-university-islamophobia-controversy-wokeism">can be found here</a></p><p>-- Michele Goodwin's interview with Jess Michaels as part of her series Surviving Epstein <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://msmagazine.com/podcast/on-surviving-epstein-part-i-with-jess-michaels/">can be found here</a></p>
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97 MIN
Episode 107 -- Did Women Ruin Everything?
NOV 18, 2025
Episode 107 -- Did Women Ruin Everything?
<p>In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through "The Great Feminization" -- a recent talk/essay that took the right wing by storm, and that subsequently got its author invited to discuss women ruining things in the <em>New York Times</em>. The essay posited that women's entry into the American workforce is to blame for ... wokeness? General societal disorder? The Decline of the West (TM)? Among the topics this episode touches on: the reasons why ideas like these are catching on at this particular moment; the reconceptualization of class distinction through (supposed) gender markers; the history of the "Great Feminization" thesis, and its relationship to "anti-liberal" and other "anti-woke" thinking on the Right.</p><p>A few links:</p><p>-- Helen Andrews, "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/">The Great Feminization</a>"</p><p>-- "<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/opinion/women-workplace-feminism-conservative.html">Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?</a>", Helen Andrews in Conversation with Leah Libresco Sargeant and Ross Douthat</p><p>-- Becca Rothfeld's review of Leah Libresco Sargeant's <em>The Dignity of Dependence</em>, which Moira mentioned in the episode, can be found <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/13/dignity-dependence-leah-libresco-sargeant-review/">here</a>.</p>
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70 MIN