P.E. Moskowitz: Author of Breaking Awake

P.E. Moskowitz: Author of Breaking Awake

On the podcast today we have P.E. Moskowitz [https://x.com/_pem_pem], a writer who also runs the newsletter Mental Hellth [https://mentalhellth.xyz/], and author of the book Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, and a New World Through Drugs [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Breaking-Awake/P-E-Moskowitz/9781668007778 ]. We discuss breaking outside of narrative meaning in mental health, dissociation/depersonalization/derealization, the neoliberalization of mental health, and the move away from understanding how systemic structures cause mental illness toward an individualistic model.  * Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock]

Regina Mahone: Author of "Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time"

Today I’m speaking with Regina Mahone, senior editor at The Nation magazine, founder of Repro Nation, a free monthly newsletter providing the latest news on the struggle for reproductive justice, and also coauthor, with We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman of the book Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liberating-abortion-renee-bracey-shermanregina-mahone?variant=41365154168866].  We will be discussing her article, "Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time [https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/abortion-in-america-storytelling/],” which appears in the May 2025 edition of The Nation. * Ineedana website [https://www.ineedana.com/⁠] * National Network of Abortion Funds [https://abortionfunds.org/⁠ ] * Aid Access [https://aidaccess.org/en/⁠]

Paul Freedman: Author of American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way

I talk with Paul Freedman, a history professor at Yale and author of the book American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way [https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631494628] which looks at the history of how food evolved over time in the US. In 1900 40% of US population worked in agriculture. Now that number is under 2%. Correspondingly food used to be 40% of a family’s budget and in 2016 that number was 12.6%. We talk about the positives and negatives of the industrialization of food, the evolution of food science, the 70s farm to table revolution, and more! * Food Fantasy blog by Callie Hitchcock [⁠https://calliehitchcock.substack.com/⁠ ] * Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon [⁠https://www.patreon.com/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock⁠ ]

Eamon Whalen: Author of "Are Men OK?"

Today we are talking about Eamon Whalen’s article “Are Men OK?” [https://www.thenation.com/article/society/richard-reeves-profile/ ] which is a recent cover story for The Nation about women’s rise in economic power, the declining cultural power of men, and the manhood intellectual Richard Reeves. Male labor force participation has fallen from 80% in 1970 to 69% in January 2020, and undergraduate enrollment for men has fallen from 58% to 44% in that same time period. Richard Reeves proposes policies to ameliorate this. Conservatives think he isn’t acknowledging the “feminist conspiracy” going on and the liberals think he’s a watered down men’s rights activist reifying the gender binary. What can we take away from his point of view? * Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon [⁠https://www.patreon.com/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock⁠ ]

Bryan Burrough: Co-Author of Barbarians at the Gate

“The idea now that running a company is some type of sacred trust, that employees are something to be taken care of, is treated by most people as a laughable idea… this period is the basis of the income inequality we see today.” - Bryan Burrough Published in 1989 by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/barbarians-at-the-gate-bryan-burroughjohn-helyar?variant=32206878539810] is a financial thriller about the leveraged buy out of RJR Nabisco. This book is a time capsule of the 1980s greed era zeitgeist and an insiders look at the creation of our casino society.  * Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/nonfictionwithcalliehitchcock]