A Quick Update from the Which House

I know I've been quiet, but

I realize that I’ve gone over a month without updating the newsletter, for which I apologize. The reason is that I’ve been busy with a few other projects, and I wanted to share them with you — there will be more meaty updates (as in: actual essays) in the coming days, as I emerge from an absolute writing-binge. But for now, I wanted to mention some of the projects that have kept me busy.

First of all, there’s of course the podcast. In Bed with the Right has been on a tear this year. By December 31, 2025, barring major snafus, we should be releasing our 115th episode. Which means between the main feed and the Patreon, we will have released 60ish episodes in 2025 alone. That’s a lot! We also had our first true live show (as in a theater and not at a college or a bookstore) at the Swedish-American Hall in San Francisco in November — the Moral Panic Bingo Night was so fun, we’re likely going to do a number of live events in 2026.

For the rest of the year, we still have a few things in store: first up is our annual “awards” show, The Cursties, which recognizes some of the most cursed discourses around sex and gender of the year. This year, it’ll be on the year in anti-woke discourse, because somehow it’s been another banner year. We still owe our listeners the final episode of Project 1933 — Episode 10, which will deal with December 1 to December 31, 1933, and will also serve to close out our reflections on that year. 2026 is already shaping up to feature a couple of fun conversations on the podcast, as well as a new series (on denazification and its pitfalls — not sure what made us think of that…).

Speaking of Project 1933, I’m thrilled to tell you that Project 1933 will be a book. It’s due to come out in Fall 2026 (early fall, too!) with Astra House Publishing.

This book will combine a lot of the research I did for the podcast series, and follow a similar conceit. But it will have more of a narrative thrust, draw on a much wider set of witnesses, and will give me a chance to delve more deeply (and at times with the benefit of (limited) hindsight) into the machinations of the Trump administration. So the 2025 part that we’d draw out in each “Project 1933”-episode, will be more explicit and more present in the book than it was on the pod. It’s an exciting chance to write a history of a faraway time and of my own time at once.

Even before Project 1933, I’ll be publishing a follow-up to 2020’s What Tech Calls Thinking. This one will appear with Suhrkamp in German first (Was das Valley herrschen nennt) in late March; it’ll then come out in English (as What Tech Calls Governing) with Stanford University Press in the fall. So here’s the cover of the German edition for now, but the SUP cover won’t be out for a little while.

The topic is what the title promises: the big tech companies are in control, in power. But what do they take control to be? What is their view of power? How did they come to this view, and how did its genesis influence how they now exercise it? It’s very exciting to get to work with two publishers I’ve worked with before (they were the exact duo I worked with on The Cancel Culture Panic), but it’s also a slightly different kind of book. It’s about ideas in action, about ideas that animate how we experience power and how power is brought to bear on us. Which means it’s got more reporting (admittedly light), more archival finds and is overall more essayistic. Unlike What Tech Calls Thinking, it’s no longer structured around specific buzzwords used by our tech overlords, but rather around ways in which their power is generated, conceptualized, concealed, applied, or lived. The individual chapters are: “Capital”, “Vibes”, “Domination”, “Distinction”, “Maturity”, “Creeps”, “Compounds” and “The Long Term”.

As for this newsletter itself, I have like 10 post drafts that are burning a hole in my pocket and that I can’t wait to share with you. Stupidly, I picked a bunch of weighty and complicated topics that I really want to do justice to (shoulda gone back to those trucker films instead!). I’ll also start writing posts around the books and other projects as they come out. Thank you for your support of this newsletter, and thanks, as always for reading!