September 2026

Moving Day! – Home is Where the Heart Is – Episode 266

In this episode, Dara is recording for the last time at Hashtag Hilltop – he and his family are about to move for the umpteenth time in recent years. He finds himself reflecting on homes of the past and the countless and never reliable memories from all of them. It strikes him how important the idea of a shared space is. Isn’t the ability to share space a profoundly important matter for all humanity? Isn’t that ability integral to humility? And isn’t it fundamentally antithetical to capitalism?

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Gloria! Tribute to a Feminist Icon – Episode 265

In this episode, in honour of the late Gloria Steinem, Dara attempts to mansplain feminism – so women, I hope you are listening! No, rather than that foolhardy exercise, he reads in their entirety two blazing feminist articles from the 1970s. Miami by Nora Ephron documents the dynamics within the National Women’s Political Caucus at the 1972 Democratic National Convention and prominently features the animus between Steinem and Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique (arguably the core text that ignited second wave feminism).

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