Space the Nation
Hosted by Dan and Ana · Space the Nation
4.8from 76 ratings
- 296
- Episodes
- 28
- Transcribed
- 76
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Space the Nation
On Space the Nation, we take our love of science fiction (and fantasy and horror) and smash it together with our professional passions: international relations (as brought to the table by Tufts University professor and Washington Post columnist Dan Drezner) and cultural criticism (as brought to the table by political columnist Ana Marie Cox). It's a highly informed but hilarious conversation that starts with an examination of a particular text (everything from Ursula K. LeGuin to the MCU, Star Trek to Colson Whitehead) and veers into current events, mental health practices and imagined conversations between Ted Cruz and the Predator. For people who like white papers and graphic novels, Chapo Trap House and what Political Science Twitter used to be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Space the Nation
- Category
- arts · government · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
28 of 296 episodes have a transcript.
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
ENCORE: THE SHINING
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (ENCORE)
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY
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ENCORE: THE SHINING
Published 2 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Kubrick is an atheist and who believes that something in humans is intrinsically evil. And famously, there's only one truly supernatural moment in the entire movie, which is the unlocking of the pantry door. Right. Right. Everything else in the movie can be explained as hallucination, you know, DTs. Psychosis. Yeah, yeah. Whatever. So for Kubrick, the hotel isn't even really the point, right? He believes that people are bad. So that makes it a different story. That automatically makes it a different story. Yeah, yeah. Anything else you want to say about what you notice as big differences? Well, I mean, we're going to get to this when we talk about the plot. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,819,151
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 35 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 41 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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