Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism.
Porn, Gambling and Their Effect On The American Psyche
Media critic and novelist Dennis Broe describes the lure and the trap of porn and gambling especially on young working-class women and men. These two multibillion dollar industries are examined as knowing how, much like series TV, to activate the addictive process. The standard narrative in porn is then characterised as one about male pleasure in the domination of a powerful woman with its ruling-class ethos located in the Epstein Scandal. Gambling is examined as a now ubiquitous enterprise t...
16 Jul 2026
C&B 13: Everything You Never Wanted To Know About FIFA, And Now Are Afraid To Ask
Dennis Broe and Toby Miller are joined by special guest Jules Boykoff who writes about sports with Dave Zirin for The Nation. Jules has written several books on the World Cup and The Olympics including his latest Red Card . He leads off by discussing Trump's overthrowing of the red card which he says was accepted graciously by the player who received it. We talk about the 2024 Paris and the upcoming 2028 Olympics, both of which Jules is covering and which includes militari...
12 Jun 2026
AI: If you build it they will come—and take your job
In Culture & Barbarism 12, Media Scholar Toby Miller from Mexico and Media Critic Dennis Broe from Paris look at the AI phenomenon, from a potentially bursting bubble to "To big to Fail." Market valuation is skyrocketing even as the service continues a massive drive toward job loss—with Amazon's "Fulfillment Centers now being converted into Unemployment Centers—a more total integration into the U.S. war machine and a gigantic and destructive use of resources. Meanwhile, AI in China ...
18 May 2026
TV and the TV Industry: Mergers, AI and Youtube/Little to Like, Lots to Loathe
On Culture and Barbarism 11, Media Analyst Dennis Broe is joined by Hollywood Reporter Chief TV Critic Daniel Feinberg to discuss changes in the TV Series industry involving Mergers, Ai and YouTube. We cover not only the threat each poses to creativity in the industry but also how each of these are influencing the form and content of television series. The threats include: mass layoffs; writers increasingly being paid less on the long march from broadcast and cable TV to Netflix to YouTube, w...
29 Apr 2026
Shakespeare's Language As Social Barometer
In this special edition of Culture & Barbarism, titled "Shakespeare's Language As Social Barometer," culture critic Dennis Broe talks about Shakespeare's contribution to the language, his critique of power and incorporation of ordinary language, the imperial use of his work as colonial soft power and its contestation and, finally, how one phrase "Unsex Me Here" by Lady Macbeth echoes across not just generations but centuries. This talk was a keynote given in India on the occasion of...
2 Apr 2026
Iran, Cuba, Vegas and the latest Harry Palmer: Pornocopia
In this interview with Pacifica Radio and WBAI's Jack Shalom, Dennis Broe takes us into the world of Pornocopia in the latest Harry Palmer LA Mystery Thriller. We talk about how that world intersects with Iran in a blowback onto Harry's case, the way the porn and gambling industries have now seeped into every aspect of American life and about the false intimacy porn promises and the false profits gambling serves up as everywhere ordinary people in the country grow more desperate. Suppor...
12 Mar 2026
Pornocopia: Sex, Gambling and the American Psyche
In Culture and Barbarism 10 Dennis Broe and Toby Miller discuss Broe's new Harry Palmer novel Pornocopia while Toby recounts the atmosphere in Mexico in the wake of the American-gun-fueled narco attacks. We recount the many similarities between the above ground Hollywood industry and the now more popular porn industry and we look at the beginnings of Vegas, fueled by mob drug money, the Hoover Dam and Air Conditioning. Finally, we look at why Ian Fleming and Arthur Conan Doyle wante...
This episode explores AI's potential downsides, including plagiarism concerns, market instability, environmental impact, and resource exploitation.
5 Jan 2026
Culture & Barbarism Special Report: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?: Trump declares 'Mission Accomplished' in Venezuela
Dennis Broe and Jack Shalom analyze Donald Trump's declaration of 'Mission Accomplished' in Venezuela, exploring the European and Chinese response to U.S. actions in this special report episode.
9 Dec 2025
Culture & Barbarism 8: Capturing Already Captured Media
Lee Camp shares insights on right-wing media's consolidation and censorship tactics, discussing Larry Ellison's influence on Paramount+ and Warner's attempted takeover in an interview with Dennis Broe.
7 Dec 2025
Culture & Barbarism 7: Shredding The Corporate Narrative
Dennis Broe and Jack Shalom analyze the right-wing media takeover, AI risks, and dire political landscape, offering a critical perspective on current events in this interview.
11 Oct 2025
Culture & Barbarism 6 House of Guinness and Higher Education: Two Houses Under Fire and Under Siege
Dennis Prager and Toby Young analyze Steven Knight's House of Guinness and surprising trends in higher education, exploring challenges and prosperity in these institutions.
9 Oct 2025
Culture & Barbarism 5: All the News That Fits, We Cut: The Republican Attack on Public Media
Toby and Dennis analyze the defunding of public media, the impact on Indigenous media, and alternative media's response to Washington consensus, while also examining historical cultural funding and Pentagon influence on film.
3 Jul 2025
Culture and Barbarism 4: Terrorising LA One Automatic Delivery Vehicle At A Time
Dennis Broe and Toby Miller analyze the LA protests against Trump, the burning of Waymo cars, and the Dodgers' "Mexican problem," alongside Jalyssa Dugrot's on-the-ground reporting, revealing class and racial tensions.
29 Apr 2025
Tariffs, Tariffs, and more, no, wait a minute, less tariffs
In this episode Toby Miller and Dennis Broe discuss Trump's tariffs and their effect on the European and American audiovisual industry as well as the ways the American streamers continue to colonize European public television while seemingly, as Trump might say, "making nice," or appearing to cooperate. Our guest is France 24 presenter Marjorie Paillon, a French analyst whose area is the interaction between American and European visual media and who raises the question of whether ...
25 Mar 2025
Culture & Barbarism, Episode 2: Sports Reporting, Palestinian Women and Carnage vs. "Clashes"
Of Miriam Adelson, The Book of Trump, Mahmoud Kalil and Roger Angell and... Why is Luca Doncic A Laker? In the second episode of Culture & Barbarism Toby Miller and Dennis Broe explore the expansion of sports and sports reporting, the wrecking of the Dallas Mavericks, Trump’s tariffs on Mexico thwarted by BRICS and we welcome our first guest Layan Fuleihan, educator, scholar and activist who talks about Palestinian women’s imbrication in the fabric of that society and updates us on the ca...
6 Mar 2025
Culture and Barbarism in British Capitalism, U.S.-Mexico Relations and Neoliberal Los Angeles
Toby Miller is a Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur. Dennis Broe is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster. In our pilot episode we recount Steven Knight's mapping of the cruelty of 19th and 20th century British capitalism, Trump's unfair characterization of Mexico's people's government as a narco state as well as where the guns are coming from that fuel the violence in that country and finally LA as a neoliberal government whose cruelty was exposed in the fires as well as its past a...
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