The Long Seventies Podcast

We explore Julian Jaynes' ideas about the origin of consciousness contained in his influential 1976 book The Origin of C... Read more

We enter the humorous, twisted and paranoid world of Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy. I... Read more

We talk Christopher Lasch’s 1979 book The Culture of Narcissism and assess how well it characterizes the period, what it... Read more

We each pick five albums we think are important from 1969 and five from 1983, compare lists and discuss the historical r... Read more

This episode we start a three part mini-series covering radical revolutionary groups of the time period. We begin with t... Read more

Summary: We talk movies that illustrate a shift in direction for Hollywood’s portrayal of Americans, precocious teenager... Read more

In this episode we start a four part series on the book Changing Images of Man, which is a wild 70s brainstorming sessio... Read more

We start a two part story about famed explorer, anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis’ 1982 expedition to Haiti to... Read more

The chaos at the 1968 Democratic National Convention spelled the end of the optimistic Sixties for many, causing massive... Read more

Summary: We close out our Decade of Rage mini-series with a discussion about the end of the Weather Underground and some... Read more

We examine tv shows like The Brady Bunch, All In the Family, Taxi, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Family Ties, The Cosby S... Read more

We continue our four part series on the book Changing Images of Man, which is a wild 70s brainstorming session on how to... Read more

Why was the Long Seventies seemingly such a fertile time for serial killers? We try to answer this question and speculat... Read more

For almost forty years the Motion Picture Production Code censored mainstream American films and limited their artistic ... Read more

During this period talented songwriters and musicians were handed the reins to entire soundtracks and produced a number ... Read more

We close out the story of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and talk about some of the event's long term effects.

We dig into chapters 1-4 (of 8) of Changing Images of Man, a unique study carried out in 1974 at Stanford Research Insti... Read more

We continue our series on revolutionary groups of the period with a look into the Symbionese Liberation Army. Murder. Ki... Read more

We discuss the cultural significance of movies Death Wish (1974) and Hardcore (1979), starring Charles Bronson and Georg... Read more

This episode explores the outrageous explosion of intentionally offensive underground comics in the early 1970s, includi... Read more